Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete, and former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman is now in charge of the cloud code management service. It wasn’t a surprising acquisition: Over the last few years, ...

Microsoft has taken a very hands-off approach with GitHub since its acquisition last year. It’s an approach that makes a lot of sense; Microsoft’s past relationship with the open source community hasn ...

Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by ...

It wasn't that long ago that the idea of using AI for development was science fiction. Then, along came GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, in the summer of 2022. GitHub partnered ...

A large-scale malicious operation named "EmeraldWhale" scanned for exposed Git configuration files to steal over 15,000 cloud account credentials from thousands of private repositories. According to ...