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Re:Hello, GitHub by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:57PM (#17232379)
I actually just made a bet with a friend on whether or not they'd switch GitHub over to Microsoft logins. My strong bet (that I put money behind) is that they won't. They're specifically acquiring this to win over developers and community, and they should hopefully know from the Skype transition how much negative perception that granted them.

Their absolute best bet is to sit on GitHub, feed it money, offer the paid features as an additional perk for MSDN subscribers through an account linking method, and call it a day. The developer goodwill they can buy being a good steward of GitHub far surpasses any other value they could extract from it.

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Re:Hello, GitHub by jodrellblank on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:14PM (#17233502)
Microsoft has you use a Microsoft account to sign into Windows itself; I think they will merge Github in somehow. They might be trying to win over developers, but they'll want to cross-sell to MS ecosystem developers as well.

Starting with "any existing Microsoft account is now a valid Github login". Then maybe "you can more easily use VS (or VS Code) with Github and deploy to Azure, if you use a Microsoft account with Github" and "you can merge your Github account into your Microsoft account". Then "all new accounts on Github are Microsoft accounts, you can no longer make a separate one".

Whether they go all the way to "there's no such thing as a separate Github account anymore", not soon, but probably one day - they've been trying to centralize accounts between all their services for years and years, haven't they?

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Re:Hello, GitHub by scarface74 on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:34PM (#17234274)
It's already trivial to host on GitHub and deploy on Azure using Visual Studio Team Services - in your deployment pipeline you choose github as your source repository instead of the built in git repo that's part of VSTS. It works using web hooks just like every other CI/CD tool.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:29PM (#17233583)
Their "for years and years" strategy though has not been working.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by bad_user on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:52AM (#17235086)
On Skype, when they migrated to MS accounts, I’ve lost 2/3 of my contacts list and tried contacting support but they wouldn’t admit it, blaming me with a line like “you must be having another Skype account”.

After several retries to talk to them and maybe get somebody more technical on the line, I just gave up and being disappointed I simply gave up on Skype altogether – thankfully it has fallen out of favor at work too.

Skype has been a monumental fuck up and just thinking about it on a thread about GitHub being acquired makes me sad.

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Re:Hello, GitHub by DoofusOfDeath on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:27PM (#17234758)
> I actually just made a bet with a friend on whether or not they'd switch GitHub over to Microsoft logins

Did your bet stipulate a time frame? I think the odds of this go up considerably after a honeymoon period of 2-4 years.

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Re:Hello, GitHub by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:12AM (#17234936)
Yeah, we went with three years (after close of the acquisition). If we didn't have a timeframe, I'd never get paid. :O I'd be inclined to pay my friend back if it happened sometime reasonably thereafter though.
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