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Do they have a good record with acquisitions? I doubt they'll be evil, but another Skype seems likely, where the product gets worse and weirder for reasons that

• onyva 8y ago
  I agree. Microsoft simply can’t resist pissing on whatever they buy, just to make sure we know it’s theirs. I can see “Microsoft Source Control Pro 3000” coming, in enterprise and smb versions, and with “git” shadowed in their marketing material. Also Skype collaboration and other hallmarks of their heavy handed lazy and ugly integration ideas.
  • BinaryIdiot 8y ago
    The classic example is Skype but people forget Skype is a really, really old acquisition at this point. Most of the things done to ruin it were done well over 5 years ago. Let's not forget GitHub already has enterprise products... Regardless Microsoft has brought in many acquisitions and didn't ruin them. LinkedIn was kept separate and beyond some integration was left untouched. Same with the vast majority of game studio acquisitions. Let's not forget the Xamarin acquisition has been a huge boon to .Net developers as well as open source initiatives. Microsoft has new leadership. Most of these arguments I'm seeing on HN are all referring to things that happened under much older leadership. This goes to show Microsoft still has some trust building work to do but at the same time they shouldn't be written off either.
    • yani 8y ago
      Microsoft is to blame for Skype downfall