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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by pentae on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:24AM (#17224623)
Skype wasn't ruined because they attempted to merge it into their other platforms. Skype was just flat out ruined with bloat, horribly inefficient code, turning it into a spying tool and not listening to their vocal users. Everyone was rioting after every update and it just got worse. To add insult to injury the last major update they have tried turning it into Snapchat. Their incompetence knows no bounds. If you think the same middle managers that ruined Skype aren't there anymore, you don't know how big companies like Microsoft work.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by PeterStuer on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:28AM (#17224909)
The client was mismanaged, but forcing the backend onto their abysmal Lync stack did ruin reliability as well as privacy.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by yuhong on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:49AM (#17225211)
I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Hendrikto on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:47AM (#17225766)
Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by yuhong on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:41PM (#17232817)
For SYSENTER: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710

Another example: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

This is just what is public.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by hestefisk on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:22AM (#17226343)
Source? Skype was always quite cross platform imho.
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