Welcome to the latest edition of Bacon Bytes. The big news this week is Microsoft buying GitHub. This immediately caused a panic with the developer trolls that can’t forget what life was like in 1998.
12
Microsoft announced they will offer 12TB of RAM for virtual machines hosted in Azure. This is 3x larger than VMs offered hosted at AWS.
20
The number of years Yahoo Messenger existed before it is shut down this coming July. I can still recall a time when Yahoo Messenger was the choice for a corporate messenger service. Looking back, it seems a shame that Yahoo wasn’t investing more in this service. They could have invented Slack a decade early.
864
The number of servers contained inside the data center that Microsoft put on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Scotland. The culmination of a 4 year effort code named Project Natick, these units reduce the time for data center deployments from 2 years to just 90 days.
40,000
That’s the fine handed out by the EPA to Chip and Joanna Gaines of ‘Fixer Upper’, for their failure to handle lead paint properly during renovations. The agency discovered the violation by watching the reality show.
9.5 million
The amount of money that the city of Atlanta must add to their budget to recover from a malware attack this past March.
80 million
That’s the number of iPhone expected to sell this Fall, down 20% from 2017. Apple told suppliers to order 20% fewer components, and as a result their stock price dipped immediately on the news.
7.5 billion
That’s the price Microsoft paid for GitHub, a nice discount from the 8.5 billion they spent on Skype. Here’s hoping they do better with GitHub than they did with Skype. I’m certainly hopeful they will.
See you next week!
Lots of old people with friends and family in other countries use Skype for cheap phone calls. $10 you can talk for a long time and call straight to their cell phone without figuring out which app everyone has.