Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition ofGitHub is more like a commencement speech following years of improved relationships with more than just Windows developers. The big question is whether it can ...
My biggest concern is the work that standards and spec organizations do on GitHub. This includes Node.js as well as the W3C work. Microsoft is a W3C member. Does it acquiring GitHub mean that it's ...
After a weekend of rumors, Microsoft officially announced Monday that it will acquire the code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The platform is an important resource for some 28 ...
Microsoft’s open-source shopping spree has claimed another victim: npm. [Nat Friedman], CEO of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), announced the move recently on the GitHub blog. So what motivated the ...
Today, Microsoft announced it is acquiring the company GitHub for $7.5 billion. If you're at all plugged into the broader world of tech, you've no doubt heard of both companies. But unless you're a ...
It’s taken a full year, but GitHub is finished building DGit, an all-new distributed storage system that will improve just about everything to do with storing and sharing Git content. Short for ...
Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...
GitHub is a way for software engineers to share, shape, and collaborate on code. And it's also a good way of teaching people to do the same thing. Hundreds of thousands of students are enrolled in ...
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke supports Microsoft's AI integration policy, where employee evaluations will include AI tool usage. Dohmke emphasizes cultural alignment and continuous learning over ...
In a move that seems to have divided the developer community, Microsoft recently announced that it has acquired popular open-source development platform GitHub. One ...
Just hours after Apple launched a new web interface for the App Store, its front-end source code ended up on GitHub.