News GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team

[Admin]

GitHub, one of the most used code repositories in the world, is being folded into Microsoft following the departure of longtime CEO Thomas Dohmke. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 but remained largely independent until today.

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team : Read more

 

[SomeoneElse23]

There's a reason why Microsoft is compared to the Borg.

"embrace and extend"

 

[Findecanor]

"All your code are belong to us"

 

[ezst036]

I don't think it is surprising.

Microsoft has thrown everything it has into the wind so it can singularly embrace the AI gimmick. Maybe it will actually be sustainable in the long term, who knows. In the short term MS is now a 4 billion dollar company so that is good and the plan is working.

But XBox is in shambles. All of MS's former glorious gaming studios are also in shambles. Xbox is nothing but a software store front now and Microsoft hardware didn't even make the XBox portable, Asus did it with the ROG. Windows is also in shambles losing market share due to(among other things) having Recall crammed down everybody's throats even after all of the customers repeatedly, repeatedly told Microsoft "We do not want this!"

MS did it anyways.

They do __not__ care what you want. You aren't the one paying the bills. Microsoft is the CoPilot company now. Those are Nadella's words. They can get CoPilot per-user licenses of $30 per month, no home Windows user is ever going to pay that kind of subscription every month.

"We are the CoPilot company"
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2023/11/16/nadella-ignite-2023-keynote.aspx

 

[DS426]

GitHub recently saw its one billionth repo hit the site, which was simply the word "sh*t".

Ok, that had to be Linus T, right!? 😆

 

[tamalero]

Please, never let Microsoft use the developer groups of Windows 11 or Teams to touch GitHub.

 

[Tbonius]

This is no good.

 

[thesyndrome]

RIP Github
2008-2025

 

[kealii123]

It wouldn't be so bad if gitlab wasn't also terrible.

 

[jg.millirem]

I was prescient to host my projects on Gitlab instead.