Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by ggg9990 on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:09PM (#17211970)

They made a lot of money, but were not successful. Business software companies become irrelevant decades before their revenues go away (eg IBM). Microsoft lost its future relevance under Ballmer.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by earenndil on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:54PM (#17212380)

Ballmer may have hurt microsoft, but they are still alive and well. The truth of it is that for a lot of things they do, there just isn't a competitor, nor will one arise soon. No one is replacing excel. As for windows -- there are a couple of niches where mac or linux could step in, but for most of them, that just isn't an option. Azure, typescript, vscode, ms office, office 365 are massively successful.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by ggg9990 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:22AM (#17212679)

Sure, MS is alive and well and may outlast every other tech giant today (except probably Amazon). But that doesn't make Ballmer a good CEO.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by earenndil on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:02PM (#17222013)

I never said he was, just that he didn't sacrifice their future relevancy.

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