Tag: microsoft

• How to perform Microsoft OneDrive OAuth sign-in and authorization in a python web app (14 Nov 2020)
  The methods and examples given in this article are based on flask framework but they should apply to django or something similar too with a little tweak. Few weeks ago, I had landed myself on a project of similar nature and though I found several helpful articles and blog posts...
• Two years later, the reasons for Microsoft's Github acquisition still remain a mystery (28 Jul 2020)
  More than two years have passed since I shared my perspective on Microsoft’s Github acquisition in this blog post earlier, and the point still stands today. Why did Microsoft decide to acquire a startup company much smaller in size which had no viable and long term revenue/profit generation model? If...
• People migrating from Github to Gitlab should learn about these details first (11 Jun 2018)
  After Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Github, a mass exodus has kind of begun and many small and large projects are moving their code bases to the much hyped Gitlab in a hurry, and these include both open and closed source projects. However, before migrating to Gitlab, they should take a...
• Microsoft's Github acquisition - A perspective (08 Jun 2018)
  As someone who has worked on Microsoft tooling since the days of Foxpro 2.6 to Visual Studio 2010 in IT career, and yet ditched them all for PHP, Python and open source years later, I think I am qualified to offer a somewhat neutral or objective perspective on this acquisition....
• Was buying LinkedIn a good decision by Microsoft? (29 Jun 2016)
  A few days ago, on 13th of June, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for around $26 billion at $196 a share. Was this buying a good decision? Even before thinking about that, let’s try to understand why was LinkedIn sold to Microsoft in the first place. After all, a company proclaiming to...