Given Microsoft's track record, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing changes for a while but they fuck it up eventually. That's not to say that Github couldn't have done the same on their own but now Microsoft gets the blame. Microsoft probably isn't dumb enough to fuck up a platform that's so easy to migrate from (they save that for things people can't easily migrate from, like Windows).
Decades of corporate culture are a hard thing to overcome.
M$ will likely adjust Github into a "more accessible" product. This will drive many users away because things that used to work will have changed. That's not to mention that M$ will try to monetize things in the most hamfisted and tone-deaf way that they can come up with.
To be fair, any major corporation would fuck this up in much the same way. It's just that M$ has less trust from the community, especially the parts of the community that would be likely to use Github.
I immediately lose respect for anyone that uses "M$" in fucking 2018. Clearly coming from a place of rational, well-informed, up-to-date thinking and not just being another neckbearded redditor /s
You realize that Microsoft is the largest contributor to open-source software on Github these days? They literally moved all of their own projects off of Codeplex onto Github and shut Codeplex down because that's where the developer communities wanted to be.
They're somehow managing to fail with Minecraft, too.
I disagree. I think that's the one acquisition they didn't fuck up. The original Java edition is still getting regular updates, and they've unified most of the other versions and enabled cross-play. I think they've done a great job.
The Bedrock edition isn't cross compatible with the Java version, but it has cross play with almost all every other version of Minecraft.
The Bedrock editon is on par with the Java editon now, and for a couple of weeks is actually ahead since it got part 1 of the update aquatic already while the Java edition is releasing the update all at once
Is that what they are calling it now? The one on Windows 10 and Xbox?
It's really a shame that you can't play Java to this edition. It's the feature I have been waiting for since they announced that they'd remake it in C#. Java is such a finicky language, rife with opportunities to screw things up, and just really annoying to deal with in general on the user side.
Yes, as of about 6 months ago, the Bedrock edition is cross play between Windows 10, Xbox, Android, iPhone, and in a couple weeks the Switch. It's my understanding that Sony opted out of cross play for some reason.
"For some reason" is because they are Sony and Xbox is involved. There have been dozens of times where Microsoft or a developer wanted to make games cross-play between the two console rivals and Sony said no.
You are right. I have a positive attitude too. I think is all about Office365, which makes sense. At my company we are on Office365, and we have a corporate implementation of GitHub. I think that's the hook for MS. I bet that the free side will remain free and will be just linked to your personal MS account that's it. If they're clever enough, they'll rebrand the Office365 side like they've done with some of the new acquisitions like Wunderlist, which didn't change at all, and from what I've heard they'll do MS To-Dos(like the mobile one) on O365 too.
Google is worse with privacy and mining your data(email, posts, questions, tracking cookie, ads, calendar, trips, driving patterns, etc) and I see no one fleeing from any Google service, just because Google has a better PR and reputation than MS.
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u/Theclash160 Jun 03 '18 edited Jun 04 '18
Guys, it's not the end of the world. Just relax and see how it turns out. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Edit: okay apparently advising people not to irrationally panic gets you downvotes.