GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by crinkly on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:13PM (#44867485)

> Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks.

This is Microsoft's primary strategy. There are a lot of victims out there.

... he says after spending several months porting a win32 app to Silverlight as part of a Gold Partner/MS case study with much fanfare, only to have to spent the next few years backporting everything into the win32 app it never replaced, and then it was shit canned and only the win32 version remains.

We're planning to rewrite it in Qt at some point as some of our customers use RHEL.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by jongjong on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:11PM (#44869509)

I once worked for a company which outsourced the development of a Silverlight app for $1 million and then canned the whole thing one year later. It's just crazy how these life-changing amounts of money are thrown around like garbage in this industry.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by jongjong on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:07AM (#44872311)

Oh and I didn't mention how these founders went on to raise more and more funding. It's like there is no connection to performance.

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