GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Post by nobleach » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #143

pjmlp wrote: post #84

I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over. Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads. .NET is now cros…

Apple and Microsoft seem very different companies. Apple is stylish and cool by default, with occasional stumbles. Even among tech people, they have good will even though they seem to regard the Open Source community with total ambivalence at best. Microsoft is the Walmart of operating system providers, that happened to buy a popular Git hosting site and briefly made noises that seemed not awful. In terms of coolness…

Post by 827a » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 7:57 PM UTC

theptip wrote: post #307

827a wrote: post #163

My deepest concern at this time isn't that AI eventually gets written down to nothing; because I don't think it will. Its that these companies are so scared of being out-competed by an AI-first competitor that they're willing to make deep sacrifices to their core businesses just to effectively virtue signal that they're AI first and unable to be out-competed. It is deeply concerning because all things point to realit…

> Google has world-class research teams that have produced unbelievable models, without any plan at all on how those make it into their products beyond forcing a chat window into Google Drive. NotebookLM is a genuinely novel AI-first product. YouTube gaining an “ask a question about this video” button, this is a perfect example of how to sprinkle AI on an existing product. Extremely slow, but the obvious incremental…

Post by pbhjpbhj » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

pfisch wrote: post #176

pbiggar wrote: post #140

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Not just that, but Microsoft's reputation is in the process of taking a nose dive over its human rights record https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

Nobody even knows about this, no one thinks "Microsoft, hell no, they are a key player in the gaza conflict." No one really associates human rights with Microsoft's reputation. That is the domain of Palantir, Meta, etc.

Post by asveikau » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

xp84 wrote: post #353

pjmlp wrote: post #314

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On my office, only folks like myself that also do Windows development, have Thinkpads with Windows. Everyone else carries Apple devices. GNU/Linux only exists on local VMs for containers, or servers on cloud instances.

Since when does carrying Apple device(s) mean we have goodwill for Apple? I dev on a Mac all day and own 2 macs at home. Why? * not going to try to convince the whole family to change and I want the various family & imessage features that everyone uses to all work * all the developers at my company use macs and I don't want to have to set up my own unique configurations for everything using WSL and stuff. * In the US…

Post by siva7 » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

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> Apple has nothing I always hear this but people use Siri all the time, and I think outside of talking to programmers, a lot of consumers probably consider that the level of AI they care about using. "is Siri really AI" seems like a real "is a hotdog a sandwich" question. Who cares? People eat hot dogs and talk to Siri. It seems what Apple has less of is LLM products that cost enormous sums of money to make that peo…

I'm not sure if you're in a country that has already received some upgrade, but over here in Europe Siri is seen as a funny tamagochi that sometimes misunderstands and thinks its needed and is then quickly told to shut up. I think the last time I talked to anyone about siri we were wondering why it was still so bad, now that we have LLMs.