When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That has nothing to do with Microsoft. That is ANY large merger.
1. Nothing is going to change. We bought this company because we love it
2. We need to show a higher profit for this quarter, cut all expenses for every subsidiary by 15% by Friday
3. Cut back on training, R&D, and support teams. they are a huge cost center
4. Bunch of employees leave after retention bonuses, replaced with MUCH cheaper labor
5. Need to show better on our next quarterly filing, slightly increase prices
6. Through attrition, replace more good people with cheap drones, until nobody knows WHY things are the way they are.
7. More increased prices, and way increased support contracts
8. Wonder why we have lost all this marketshare. Look at Company X, they are doing great, lets buy them.
Skype was bad before Microsoft when it was still part of eBay and stayed terrible after Microsoft. LinkedIn was legendary in dark patterns usage way before Microsoft.
Nokia... I don’t know about that one. Change to smartphones hit every “old” phone brand... Ericsson did not survive, Siemens did not survive, Alcatel is just a brand now, even Sony has a hard time... Nokia would probably die no matter what. All the Maemo/linux based OSes (that kept changing names all the time) were nice, but so was Palm’s WebOS...
Well, some other people in the comments disagree. And it hasn't happened yet, but it's the way they don't manage / integrate acquisitions very well unless they're wowie complementary products like Visio. Danger dropped off a cliff and Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved, so friends of mine basically repeated the theme for VMware View and were acquihired by VMware. Time will tell where GH goes.
People's comments are meaningless, you can look at historical GitHub up-time and see that it hasn't changed meaningfully.
"And it hasn't happened yet"
Ah yes, now you have to backtrack from: it happened! to... no wait I promise it will happen! Based on... what? The fact that some acquisitions don't go well?
This is all pure speculation with no substantiation.
I went back from the time of Microsoft's acquisition, and that status seems heavily underreported. At least when I checked now, it was all green, green. That does not reflect my experience.
To be fair, they didn't say that was the cause of the current outage. They made a general observation that Microsoft-acquired companies degrade, which seems like a fairly reasonable observation: The goal of being the best Git service/repo falls by the wayside as other corporate goals push in.
Early Danger adopter here. The hiptop was great for its time but with the advent of the iPhone, it was obsolete. That was before the MS acquisition. Rubin (and presumably much of his team) had long prior left for Android.
Danger was already in freefall by the time of the acquisition. You can't blame Microsoft for that.
Do a search on HN for "Github down". It happened a lot before the Microsoft acquisition in mid-2018. Perhaps what you're saying is true, but your comment is entirely not relevant to this outage.
