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I don't want Google or Amazon to buy them, and that almost leaves Azure.
It seems like something they could have done themselves a few years ago, though. Puzzling.
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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.
Obviously that didn't pleased people (see rating in Play Store), and they had to provide something for low/mid range phones, and skype lite was born (which is really good one).
For the comparisons of this acquisition to Skype, yes Microsoft bungled the Skype acquisition. But they have been killing it with Typescript and Visual Studio. I feel like that at such a large company, the Typescript recent history matters more than the Skype history. Two very different areas with different people in charge, etc.
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…
Conveniently, Github fits right into the technology bubble. :)
these talks are actually not new. the same rumor appeared back in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/07/github-is-raising-a-second... imho, github feels a bit too slow innovating, which is kinda surprising since they are still "a startup"
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Same here. I don't use Google products, other than search.
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.
The ghost of the skype acquisition would make me panic.
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Windows 10's forced updates and telemetry say otherwise.
Telemetry is bad, forced updates is not.
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I lived through the nineties as well, that doesn't mean I think everything that was amazing back then still is amazing today nor that everything that sucked back then still sucks today... I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties. Personally I'm not so much worried about Microsoft going back to Microsoft'95 but more about the fact that they, like most (all?) other big tech co…
> I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties. If they've managed to change that much, then nothing prevents them to make the opposite turn and return to the monopolistic Microsoft as soon as a new CEO steps in. That's why I prefer Microsoft to stay away from the products and projects everybody loves. Furthermore, I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to GitHub.
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Shall we talk Nokia...
Pre-Nadella tbf, who was opposed to the acquisition when Ballmer was CEO.