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Yeah, I agree. I would immediately delete my github account if this happened. I don't buy that MS has seen the light and is a different company now. In the last 2 weeks, 3 people have told me their Windows 10 install updated itself and was completely borked. At least one of these people are going out and buying a new Windows machine as a result (thus giving MS a little more revenue). It absolutely disgusts me.
You must have very weird friends. My family and I havent had any issues since Vista.
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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.
That‘s still very clearly the same Microsoft where a gazillion layers of dumb middle management ruin everything[2].
[1] http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/06/skype-redesign-iphone-app... [2] http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
Microsoft had a "github" it could not compete and github took the mindshare.
Now it seems Microsoft want to buy that mindshare.
I wonder how many FOSS and other projects will jump ship once/if Microsoft takes over.
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As much as I love VSCode, you live in a buble. A communication app affects way more people than a programming language or a text editor. Even my mother uses the former, while only a fraction of all the programmers I met in my life use the laters. And MS did messed up on other major products or companies - Rare video games. They did freaking golden eyes and conkers bad day and they manage to kill it. - they messed up…
Win10 could be better than win7, but too much time adding in ads and not enough refactoring the old UX all the way.
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I lived through the 90s, so I disagree. Anyone who feels perfectly comfortable with Microsoft's embracing of things they like is ignoring history. Maybe it's different this time, maybe it isn't.
I lived through the 90s too. It's been 20+ years since the peak of the Microsoft that gave them the reputation you're reflecting. If "I lived through the 90s" was how I measured technology and companies, I'd sure as hell not be using Apple products - their technology was pretty terrible then, and the company was incoherent. Would any rational person say that the terrible tech and incoherence then translates to how on…
Second its easier for people to grow to be better at their job than to grow into being better people.
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.
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It's just the stickiest app of all time To me it barely exists. I'm a hirer in the UK. Before anyone touts how much wider our reach might be for potential hires, can I point out that my little firm has hired people from the other end of Europe directly ("real" friend of friend etc). Oh and just in case you are wondering - we pay and treat everyone equally and equitably.
If you pay everyone equally, I don't think I'd want to work there.
we pay and treat everyone equally and equitably.
... means that we do not discriminate unfairly. Do I really need to spell it out?
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.
It could be worse, Oracle or SalesForce could have been in talks...