Microsoft has acquired GitHub - Sources

TelkomUseless said:
Huh.. and Apple ? Dude.. breath. Lol

One charges a mint for software, the other for hardware. Both of them, in the same light. I didn't mention Apple because I don't have much butthurt from them not being able to afford their crap.

Microsoft have changed a lot in recent years - I actually really like them and what they are doing these days.
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Here's what happened last week, as a good example.
We have a cheapo desktop PC at home with Win 7 Pro on it for the child's games.
To enable a XBOX ONE controller to work, one would think all that is required is a device driver... OH NO, several updates have to be installed first, so I figure out which they are, and one of them leads to a page on MS' website saying "No longer available, but you can get Windows 10"- That pissed me off seriously. Anyway, I found the required package from another site and life goes on, a task expected to take 5 minutes ended up taking 2-3 hours of needless patching because MS feels its right to dictate how things must work... its a friggen 3rd party game controller... not a friggen copy of your Server OS...

And then we have Windows 10, which I have been forced to use for short periods of time (until I found a company to work for that wasn't full of BS and leaves me alone to use the right tools for the job). I can't tell the truth about it because nobody believes me when I say that OS is as slow as lard. Same laptop, same RAM, no changes made, put Windows 8 on there, and that flies like a bat out of hell... Windows 10.... lots of paging to disk... heat blowing out the sides... but yeah, Windows 10 is the best OS ever... I guess that's what people who have made really bad decisions keep telling themselves to make the pain easier to bear.
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ArtyLoop said:
TelkomUseless said:
Huh.. and Apple ? Dude.. breath. Lol

One charges a mint for software, the other for hardware. Both of them, in the same light. I didn't mention Apple because I don't have much butthurt from them not being able to afford their crap.


Here's what happened last week, as a good example.
We have a cheapo desktop PC at home with Win 7 Pro on it for the child's games.
To enable a XBOX ONE controller to work, one would think all that is required is a device driver... OH NO, several updates have to be installed first, so I figure out which they are, and one of them leads to a page on MS' website saying "No longer available, but you can get Windows 10"- That pissed me off seriously. Anyway, I found the required package from another site and life goes on, a task expected to take 5 minutes ended up taking 2-3 hours of needless patching because MS feels its right to dictate how things must work... its a friggen 3rd party game controller... not a friggen copy of your Server OS...

And then we have Windows 10, which I have been forced to use for short periods of time (until I found a company to work for that wasn't full of BS and leaves me alone to use the right tools for the job). I can't tell the truth about it because nobody believes me when I say that OS is as slow as lard. Same laptop, same RAM, no changes made, put Windows 8 on there, and that flies like a bat out of hell... Windows 10.... lots of paging to disk... heat blowing out the sides... but yeah, Windows 10 is the best OS ever... I guess that's what people who have made really bad decisions keep telling themselves to make the pain easier to bear.
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Just watch the performance counter/resource monitor to see what is going on the background. 90% you will see some hdd thrashing due to spyware/maiware scans etc. Just check what is chowing your CPU/Hdd etc. And No don't just use task manager to see the usage of CPU. Use Resource Monitor.

I still have Win7 on my desktop at home. I got 10 on my work pc. When the machine lags, I check wtf is going on. Company policy scans etc.

I had similiar issue with Win8. Machine crawls after a while. It was windows rebuilding the Search index. Check the Resource Monitor...

P.s I'm a MS fanboy LOL. But I can be objective too. When a machine flies and then slows down... investigate.
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ArtyLoop said:
Here's what happened last week, as a good example.
We have a cheapo desktop PC at home with Win 7 Pro on it for the child's games.
To enable a XBOX ONE controller to work, one would think all that is required is a device driver... OH NO, several updates have to be installed first, so I figure out which they are, and one of them leads to a page on MS' website saying "No longer available, but you can get Windows 10"- That pissed me off seriously. Anyway, I found the required package from another site and life goes on, a task expected to take 5 minutes ended up taking 2-3 hours of needless patching because MS feels its right to dictate how things must work... its a friggen 3rd party game controller... not a friggen copy of your Server OS...

And then we have Windows 10, which I have been forced to use for short periods of time (until I found a company to work for that wasn't full of BS and leaves me alone to use the right tools for the job). I can't tell the truth about it because nobody believes me when I say that OS is as slow as lard. Same laptop, same RAM, no changes made, put Windows 8 on there, and that flies like a bat out of hell... Windows 10.... lots of paging to disk... heat blowing out the sides... but yeah, Windows 10 is the best OS ever... I guess that's what people who have made really bad decisions keep telling themselves to make the pain easier to bear.
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But seriously, is it really that bad? Just install Linux to solve all your problems.
 
ArtyLoop said:
TelkomUseless said:
Huh.. and Apple ? Dude.. breath. Lol

One charges a mint for software, the other for hardware. Both of them, in the same light. I didn't mention Apple because I don't have much butthurt from them not being able to afford their crap.


Here's what happened last week, as a good example.
We have a cheapo desktop PC at home with Win 7 Pro on it for the child's games.
To enable a XBOX ONE controller to work, one would think all that is required is a device driver... OH NO, several updates have to be installed first, so I figure out which they are, and one of them leads to a page on MS' website saying "No longer available, but you can get Windows 10"- That pissed me off seriously. Anyway, I found the required package from another site and life goes on, a task expected to take 5 minutes ended up taking 2-3 hours of needless patching because MS feels its right to dictate how things must work... its a friggen 3rd party game controller... not a friggen copy of your Server OS...

And then we have Windows 10, which I have been forced to use for short periods of time (until I found a company to work for that wasn't full of BS and leaves me alone to use the right tools for the job). I can't tell the truth about it because nobody believes me when I say that OS is as slow as lard. Same laptop, same RAM, no changes made, put Windows 8 on there, and that flies like a bat out of hell... Windows 10.... lots of paging to disk... heat blowing out the sides... but yeah, Windows 10 is the best OS ever... I guess that's what people who have made really bad decisions keep telling themselves to make the pain easier to bear.
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So you're upset because you use an operating system that left Mainstream support nearly 3 years ago and that specific items are no longer available for it.... I'm guessing you work for a relatively small little outfit if they're happy with you using an out of date OS.
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ArtyLoop said:
Here's what happened last week, as a good example.
We have a cheapo desktop PC at home with Win 7 Pro on it for the child's games.
To enable a XBOX ONE controller to work, one would think all that is required is a device driver... OH NO, several updates have to be installed first, so I figure out which they are, and one of them leads to a page on MS' website saying "No longer available, but you can get Windows 10"- That pissed me off seriously. Anyway, I found the required package from another site and life goes on, a task expected to take 5 minutes ended up taking 2-3 hours of needless patching because MS feels its right to dictate how things must work... its a friggen 3rd party game controller... not a friggen copy of your Server OS...

And then we have Windows 10, which I have been forced to use for short periods of time (until I found a company to work for that wasn't full of BS and leaves me alone to use the right tools for the job). I can't tell the truth about it because nobody believes me when I say that OS is as slow as lard. Same laptop, same RAM, no changes made, put Windows 8 on there, and that flies like a bat out of hell... Windows 10.... lots of paging to disk... heat blowing out the sides... but yeah, Windows 10 is the best OS ever... I guess that's what people who have made really bad decisions keep telling themselves to make the pain easier to bear.
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Just Install Gentoo. It will solve all your problems.
 
Ryansr said:
This is great!
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im not so sure about that, when big business buys a heavily used backbone of the internet,
look at Skype, look at whats-app,

they going to turn github into their own personal fiefdom, and generate massive profits from it.

fortunately there is gitlab and bitbucket and others that not owned by big corporate.
 
kripstoe said:
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But seriously, is it really that bad? Just install Linux to solve all your problems.
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lol, this must be one of the worse statements I have ever seen. As if nothing ever goes wrong in Linux.
Linux is great, stable but I have poured hours into getting silly small things to work just as I do with Windows.
 
Insint said:
lol, this must be one of the worse statements I have ever seen. As if nothing ever goes wrong in Linux.
Linux is great, stable but I have poured hours into getting silly small things to work just as I do with Windows.
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So have I... but of course the point was missed. Micro$oft doesn't get bad rep for nothing.
Microsoft has a track record of acquiring things and F***ing them up. Skype is a very good example of this. Their desktop OS is a classic example of a complete and utter f**k up too
 
Insint said:
lol, this must be one of the worse statements I have ever seen. As if nothing ever goes wrong in Linux.
Linux is great, stable but I have poured hours into getting silly small things to work just as I do with Windows.
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Exactly.
 
ArtyLoop said:
So have I... but of course the point was missed. Micro$oft doesn't get bad rep for nothing.
Microsoft has a track record of acquiring things and F***ing them up. Skype is a very good example of this. Their desktop OS is a classic example of a complete and utter f**k up too
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Really?

So extensive corporate and residential use is just some form of complete oddity then?

Yes Skype is a mess, but it has endured long beyond many of its competitors such as ICQ etc....

Microsoft also has a track record of acquiring things and making them fscking awesome... SQL Server for starters.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Sorry who actually in their right mind trusts Microsoft? Except people who think Windows 10 is great I suspect.
I used to use their products, once upon a time, not any more.
If they could, they'd actually make you pay for the air you breathe.
A company, that is singly responsible for holding the pursuit of computer science back because of their corporate greed does not deserve to be involved with open source projects.
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Wut?
 
TelkomUseless said:
LOL... MS never claimed it as their own..
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Oh they'll do it eventually just like VMWare, don't worry. Being on the board of the Linux Foundation and owning the thing every other Linux Foundation member uses for software development relies on grants them plenty of opportunity to ignore the GPL when they feel like it.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Sorry who actually in their right mind trusts Microsoft? Except people who think Windows 10 is great I suspect.
I used to use their products, once upon a time, not any more.
If they could, they'd actually make you pay for the air you breathe.
A company, that is singly responsible for holding the pursuit of computer science back because of their corporate greed does not deserve to be involved with open source projects.
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https://opensource.microsoft.com/ has a nice list
VS Code
Most of the .Net Core Libraries, Runtime and compiler
TypeScript
Among quite a few other things.

Mircosoft has made quite an about turn a while ago already.

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n terms of people contributing, Microsoft wins handily, with 1,303 contributors (compared to Google's 911). In terms of the number of repositories (and the significance thereof), Google tops the charts, with 1,116, compared to Microsoft's 832. As for the importance of the projects, Hoffa uses GitHub stars to measure importance, and Google essentially doubles Microsoft's tally (538,687 stars vs. 263,525 stars).

No one else comes close. Not even Red Hat, the only company with a 100% commitment to contribute all of its code under an open source license. It's a bit breathtaking.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/articl...e-are-now-leading-the-open-source-revolution/
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Microsoft acquires Github

The Github Blog said:
I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able.
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https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

Not sure how I feel about this. I guess the good moves MS has been making the past few years will be put to the test.

At least its not Oracle.
 
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