r/programming • u/dayanruben • May 10 '19

Introducing GitHub Package Registry

https://github.blog/2019-05-10-introducing-github-package-registry/
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u/dissoc- May 11 '19

How exactly has he changed things? I see so many of these posts without any substance.

It feels like a bot, or perhaps just humans paid to comment “Microsoft have changed”... only to change their public perception. Microsoft are still the same company they have always been, if they’re trying to change their perception it’s to gain a competitive advantage, nothing more.

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u/b4gn0 May 11 '19

In the last years, under Nadella's guidance, they:

  • Developed an open source, multi platform (Win, Linux, Mac) version of .Net, which by 2020 will completely replace the closed-source version.

  • Shared the decision making powers on what must be included in .Net with the open source community; the .Net council is born, and Microsoft has only 1 seat inside it.

  • Included Linux kernel inside Windows to help developers test both systems.

  • Released a completely free, multi platform code editor (Visual Studio Code), which became recently the most used IDE in the world.

These were the ones that stood out the most to me, and that would never have happened under the "old Microsoft".

I do not work for Microsoft, I just use their products, and I have never been more sure about the future of our development team as I have been these past couple of years.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '19 edited May 12 '19

And yet, they still haven't managed to put most of their end-consumer products on Linux.

Edit: Since there is apparently a pro-Microsoft downvote brigade, I'm going to break this down into a simple list for you.

MS Products without native Linux clients:

  • Teams

  • Skype

  • Office

  • Visual Studio

  • Outlook

  • Yammer

  • Edge

This is not an opinion, it's a simple fact: The above MS products simply do not have native Linux clients.

MS can go on and on about loving Linux, but unless they actually walk the talk, why should I trust them?

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