139
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
(www.theverge.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
139 points (97.9% liked)
Technology
85211 readers
963 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
I know this is fun to point and say about MS, but not really the case here IMO. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish describes the MS strategy for creating/maintaining a monopoly - but GitHub nearly is a monopoly. Extinguishing it only takes themselves out of the competition.
This is just plain old mismanagement if you ask me, and ostensibly a victim of the current AI craze.
Yeah, it's not like Microsoft has a different platform they want to push instead, unless you want code in Microsoft Word.
It's middle managers getting their cost cutting efficiency in the log before moving up to destroy something else on a bigger scale.
I mean they literally have azure devops…
Not that they are pushing it, but they do have a full fledged mature second offering
I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though.