Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by cheez on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:36PM
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The fact that you can still talk about them as separate is what I mean. It isn't some MS brand Xamarin. It's still Xamarin.
Github is still Github.
Of course Microsoft played a part in the progress. Try to be more generous with your nitpicking.
Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by rubber_duck on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:46PM
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What ? Xamarin is defacto Microsoft Xamarin, it's even integrated in to their domain and Xamarin Studio got rebranded to Visual Studio Mac.
Github is a separate issue, they can't rebrand without huge value loss.
Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by cheez on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:22PM
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I see the nitpicking continues.
Is the Xamarin brand still strong?
Yes.
Nothing else is important. It is clearly a separate brand which is OBVIOUSLY going to be integrated (otherwise why buy it?)
But it remains a differentiable entity with the power of Microsoft behind it.
Continue nitpicking.
Github is actively within Microsoft ecosystem and all for the better of both sides from my experience.
Xamarin was crap before the Microsoft acquisition, it was improving at great pace afterwards and it's pretty integrated into .NET standard story (but still crap last time I used it 3 years ago) - I don't even see how you could say anything like they left them alone, feels more like they got rolled up in to .NET devision, again for the better of both (Mono was still the only solution for some scenarios until very recently even outside of mobile)