[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.
Time to move off GitHub?
Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github
An AC also submitted Bloomberg's article.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)
So, I suppose that 2.5 years is too long to expect an OS to remain useful?
Node.js 8.x won't install on wily, and while 6.x installed, the wire client has some problem with React that it is pointing at Node.js being too old as a likely source...
Have I ever mentioned what a royal PITA I have found Java and javascript to be over the past 20 years?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:42PM
"Wily" has been officially EOL since July 28, 2016. You haven't received a single update, security or otherwise, since then. I would not be expecting much from your OS.