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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by da_chicken on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:30PM (#17224086)
"Decades"? Bandwidth requirements and difficulty of virtualization essentially precluded enterprise cloud hosting much more than one decade ago. Virtualization was essentially impractical or mainframe only until Intel added VT-x. Two decades ago most Internet users were on AOL dialup. And anyways, Azure is #2 behind AWS, so it's not like they're doing badly.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by erikpukinskis on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:58AM (#17224780)
EC2 was released over a decade ago. And Microsoft could’ve done it way easier than Amazon.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by da_chicken on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:15PM (#17229338)
And it went out of beta not quite a decade ago (October 2008). Whether you count it 2003 or 2006 or 2008, however, I still wouldn't call it "decades" which is what I was objecting to.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by erikpukinskis on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:57PM (#17257707)
“Decades” referred to how long MS has had the opportunity.
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