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Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by coldseattle »

prepend wrote: post #315
AgentK20 wrote: post #6

Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.

I don’t know, isn’t Microsoft the only software company left? I love Google, but they sell ads, their mission isn’t to make software. Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately. If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altr…

Adobe.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by coldseattle »

wooter wrote: post #222
dudus wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the opposite opinion. I think every few months I see an interesting feature being added that are slowly making github a better platform. Just for the last few months we've seen a lot of improvements for Enterprise, improvement to gitHub pages, saved replies, team discussions, security alerts. I love the pace they have to release meaningful improvements.

i'm also a big fan of the atom editor

You’re kidding, right? Anyway Microsoft will kill it and replace it with VS Code, a much better editor.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by discordance »

emodendroket wrote: post #177
seltzered_ wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has been investing in developer services for a number of years - they acquired hockeyapp (mac/ios crash analytics), and have a whole bunch of other tools under the azure brand https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/ It's almost worth re-asking the question as...what does Azure want Github for, to try and strip away thinking about MS's windows/office products. There could be some crossover between github…

Don't they already support a bunch of scenarios like deploying from GitHub? It'd make sense in that way.

Visual Studio Team Services, although very capable, is nowhere near as popular as GitHub.

I imagine this move will lead to more integrations there... Kind of like what Microsoft did with Deis and their Kubernetes offerings.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by morganvachon »

sandov wrote: post #305
morganvachon wrote: post #235

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If you want to get Google search results and not give them any personal info or create a search bubble, try startpage.com or ixquick.com (same company). They have built a privacy-focused search engine that rides on Google's results. I'm not affiliated, I just enjoy using it. If you don't trust Startpage you can try DuckDuckGo with a !g modifier, it will search Google (mostly) anonymously for you.

As far as I understand, the !g modifier doesn't search anonymously for you, it just redirects you to the google results page. It's useful when you know that ddg won't give you a result as good as google. You can also use the !sp flag, that redirects you to the startpage result page, without passing through google at any time, so that's what you should use instead of !g.

Thanks for that, I rarely use DDG but I always assumed they sanitized the Google results.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

nkkollaw wrote: post #238
giancarlostoro wrote: post #185

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To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.

How about Skype, though? People loved Skype so much, it was really a feat to make people hate it.

I think people forget how bad Skype was in a lot of ways though. The big reason they shifted to the cloud model, for instance, was how unreliable message delivery was on phones with peer-to-peer. I remember when, in order to send images, you and the other person had to be online at the same time.

They made some missteps, sure, but Skype was already a very dated solution.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by amf12 »

kakwa_ wrote: post #237
skellera wrote: post #14

Seems like the view here is pretty negative. I feel like most people here haven't worked with Microsoft dev products recently. They're getting better. I guess the crowd here isn't typically in the .NET world.

I don't care if MS is getting better lately. The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing, but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows. I like the fact Github is independent of all the big players. I really, really, really hope it stays a neutral ground. Also, if acquired by MS, I'm not that afraid for github itself. However, what is at risk in my opinion is all the integrations around github.…

> The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows.

This is such a prejudiced statement. It can be said of any company.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by amf12 »

millstone wrote: post #313
skellera wrote: post #14

Seems like the view here is pretty negative. I feel like most people here haven't worked with Microsoft dev products recently. They're getting better. I guess the crowd here isn't typically in the .NET world.

Microsoft products are becoming worse on privacy: 1. LinkedIn's dark UI patterns are as bad as they've ever been. Bringing the same to GitHub or otherwise LinkedIn-ifying it seems like a very real risk. 2. Ramping up telemetry. Key loggers in Windows 10, opt-out telemetry in .NET Core, seems impossible to get VSCode to stop phoning home. This is the stuff we very badly want to avoid.

1. Agreed.

2. (Windows 10) Isn't that only in the technical preview versions? Or is the keylogger in the release versions too?

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by discordance »

gsich wrote: post #150
philipov wrote: post #113

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Windows 10's forced updates and telemetry say otherwise.

Telemetry is bad, forced updates is not.

I recently had to do the forced April Windows 10 update, and not only did it take 10 hours, the UX was horrific... e.g. Random CMD prompt windows popping up etc.

If that is allowed to pass QA in Microsoft, then it kind of scares me what can happen if they were to acquire GitHub.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ohashi »

p1esk wrote: post #311
sametmax wrote: post #52

The ghost of the skype acquisition would make me panic.

Why? I've been using Skype as my main video/text chat app since ~2002. It hasn't changed much after the acquisition.

Really? It's become nearly unusable for me. I used to have it open all the time and talk to lots of people. Now it feels closer to an infection on my computer that I only pull up when I have to talk to someone on it and then promptly struggle to logout and make sure it's truly closed.
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