[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: 1) by Burz on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:05AM (1 child)
I looked at Wire but Riot looks even more interesting. So far it works well, has e2e encryption and its server architecture is federated:
https://riot.im/ [riot.im]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:50PM
i didn't know they had put the e2e in beta. it wasn't included last time i looked which looked very fishy to me. maybe they were just lagging behind.