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Skype returned with a Linux client, and Minecraft never dropped Linux support at all.
Minecraft for Linux does not have the same features.
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I wasn’t aware that I was a commercial entity because I use github!
I think the point is that you are using a commercial entity to host your code. There is a bill for the code you have hosted, and you aren't the one paying for it.
Microsoftie here — throwaway for obvious reasons. Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and po…
> Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and point of view. That's what we said about the Skype…
Seriously, go use products like Google Hangouts, Slack or Microsoft Teams (Microsofts's surprisingly better clone of Slack) and then tell me that Skype was ruined by integrating with Microsoft's other product base. The closest argument you might be able to make is that Skype could have developed new features or updated its UI and stayed competitive, but that wouldn't give them the competitive edge that it's competitors nearly all had in terms of being backed by major tech companies. Additionally, the major revenue source was Business tier use, which Microsoft dramatically improved by integrating it with their other cloud-based business suite applications.
Microsoft didn't kill Skype, if anything they extended its life expectancy and value in markets that actually paid to use it. It's dead/dying now because better tools have been developed and marketed to replace it. That's just standard product life cycle.
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I'm not at Microsoft anymore but I was there when Skype got acquired and I had a bunch of friends who worked on it. You have to understand that the technology underlying Skype at the time was very brittle and poorly designed. Google almost bought Skype before Microsoft did and backed out after they got a look at the code. When Microsoft acquired it Skype was routing its traffic over port 80 for example.
> You have to understand that the technology underlying Skype at the time was very brittle and poorly designed. > When Microsoft acquired it Skype was routing its traffic over port 80 for example. __I have to understand__ ? Who is saying this? do you have any credentials / knowledge of Skype technology? My understanding is that you only report indirect discussion from "your friends who worked on it"? Having been ther…
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He did not think Skypes p2p communication was a good fit for Google, going so far as to say it ate up bandwidth and was like an old technology.
The PM's remarks could be summarized as saying the basic p2p communication architecture was overly and only used in order to avoid a cloud/server based architecture.
Basically, the PM thought Skypes architecture and code base couldn't effectively scale or meet real world business requirements that people would pay for.
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Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).
> Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Depends on what you mean by "good enough". Wine is an incredible project that has achieved amazing successes, but it still falls short in a lot of ways.
I personally don't use Wine but I've encountered people online in the last 10+ years that use the argument that it's "good enough" for people to fully switch to Linux. Realistically, I don't think Wine actually convinced more than a handful of users to abandon Windows
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I would guess mentions of enterprise and businesses all over with a contact sales button. Some old pages are enterprisey and didn't know they pushed a desktop app for so long lol. I loved that they explained how the name github came to be in one of the older landing pages. 2020 - https://github.com 2019 - http://web.archive.org/web/20190317031034/https://github.com... 2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180317031034/…
ah that makes sense. That's disappointing for sure but I assumed they meant something more specific to Microsoft. These profit oriented changes are pretty standard after the acquisition of any website. If anything they feel mild considering how much potential there is for Microsoft to really exploit the freemium experience for more sales. On the other hand, GitHub had a reputation for offering a first class freemium…
I like that they don't have 30 day retention policy when you want to delete something (repos, account) which is what everyone else does to keep you on the site. Really hate that.
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It would be delusional of me to claim that VSCode wasn't already winning in terms of mindshare by a large margin when the acquisition happened. That's not what I'm claiming here. Atom still had a healthy number of active contributors (presumably most of them were from GitHub) making improvements to the product on a daily basis to make it a perfectly viable tool for the people who chose to use it (and despite the much…
From Microsoft's perspective, what's the advantage to them or their users to pay for two somewhat similar free offerings to be worked on in parallel? Given that one was gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds while the other was rapidly losing market share and relevance, what course would you recommend? "Fund both indefinitely, to keep the handful of atom users that want new features happy"? Be reasonable.
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Regards 2FA/Login: Except that Microsoft has not done this with GitHub. And NPM is joining GitHub not Microsoft. You will see non login vanishing in favor of GitHub Login for sure. And the second factor, see what GitHub offers. For me that is currently a OTP generator
I hope they dont use that Microsoft Authenticator app. That has never worked for me, never once got me logged in, and has locked me out of Teams on a couple occasions.
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Regards 2FA/Login: Except that Microsoft has not done this with GitHub. And NPM is joining GitHub not Microsoft. You will see non login vanishing in favor of GitHub Login for sure. And the second factor, see what GitHub offers. For me that is currently a OTP generator
Gihub already had a masssive social graph. They know who you are in terms of who you work for and who your CTO is. Npm does not know that about me. It has no sales channel.
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> Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and point of view. That's what we said about the Skype…
Skype is crap, it was doomed to die around that time frame anyway. If anything, Microsoft Business kept Skype going longer than it would have otherwise. Seriously, go use products like Google Hangouts, Slack or Microsoft Teams (Microsofts's surprisingly better clone of Slack) and then tell me that Skype was ruined by integrating with Microsoft's other product base. The closest argument you might be able to make is th…
Personal experience, but I have not found a single person who likes MS Teams. Usually people around me say that Slack is ok-ish, while MS Teams is crap.