Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead
by O1111OOO on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:41AM
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> You do stuff that appears to be good hearted.
I agree with you except for the section above. I don't know that Microsoft has done anything remarkably "good". Today's Microsoft is centered around their surveillance, keylogging Operating System. It's centered around their deceptive & litigious forced upgrades to Windows 10.
Someone mentioned a piece of software called 'Yammer' (a freemium enterprise social networking service) a few days ago that I'm not familiar with. When I looked into it, I found that Microsoft had acquired Yammer in 2012 for US$1.2 billion.[0]
This is the current result of that acquisition: "The new integrations have implications for the way Microsoft sells Yammer. Microsoft is encouraging customers to migrate to its Office 365 plans. Effectively Microsoft will stop selling Yammer as a standalone service."[1]
I'm sure there are many more modern day examples. I'll have to delve back into Microsoft land to find out (MS refugee for a few years now after jumping ship to the privacy-respecting Linux).
To me, there is little difference between the Microsoft of 20 years ago and the Microsoft today. In many ways, with the addition of user-hostile surveillance and data-hording, Microsoft is far worse than they've ever been.
I agree with you except for the section above. I don't know that Microsoft has done anything remarkably "good". Today's Microsoft is centered around their surveillance, keylogging Operating System. It's centered around their deceptive & litigious forced upgrades to Windows 10.
Someone mentioned a piece of software called 'Yammer' (a freemium enterprise social networking service) a few days ago that I'm not familiar with. When I looked into it, I found that Microsoft had acquired Yammer in 2012 for US$1.2 billion.[0]
This is the current result of that acquisition: "The new integrations have implications for the way Microsoft sells Yammer. Microsoft is encouraging customers to migrate to its Office 365 plans. Effectively Microsoft will stop selling Yammer as a standalone service."[1]
I'm sure there are many more modern day examples. I'll have to delve back into Microsoft land to find out (MS refugee for a few years now after jumping ship to the privacy-respecting Linux).
To me, there is little difference between the Microsoft of 20 years ago and the Microsoft today. In many ways, with the addition of user-hostile surveillance and data-hording, Microsoft is far worse than they've ever been.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammer
[1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/26/microsoft-is-killing-yamm...