Microsoft and GitHub: A combined love of empowering developers

One of the most interesting things I've taken to heart in the wake of Microsoft's combination with LinkedIn is how strongly Microsoft is committed to supporting open source code, open source developers, and Linux.

Under Satya Nadella's leadership, Microsoft has re-invigorated itself with an exploratory, future-oriented, and developer-focused mindset. Part of that has included pursuing major open source projects like Visual Studio Code and Azure IoT Edge runtime.

Now, Microsoft has announced its plan to acquire the world's most popular software development platform, GitHub. In doing so, it's showing that its commitment to the open source community is a key part of its vision of building tools that can empower individuals and organizations alike to use technologies like the cloud, AI, and augmented reality more productively.

As a board member of Mozilla for more than decade, and at LinkedIn as well, where open source projects like Kafka helped modernize our platform, I saw how generative and efficient open source development could be. That's why I'm so excited about this announcement.

As much as developers have driven entrepreneurship and innovation in Silicon Valley and beyond over the last several decades, that is only going to increase moving forward. To fully capitalize on the opportunities presented by embedding computational power into an ever-widening range of products, services, and industries, the world needs more developers. And developers need tools and platforms that help them work together, learn new skills, and produce code more efficiently.

For millions of developers around the globe, GitHub is the platform where they collaborate, innovate, and build the future on a daily basis. Since its founding in 2008, GitHub has done an incredible job making software development open and accessible. Its new relationship with Microsoft will give GitHub the resources its needs to continue serving a growing global community of developers.

I look forward to seeing the GitHub team use this opportunity to keep pursuing its vision for collaborative software development. In an increasingly digital world, empowering developers is key to boosting innovation and entrepreneurship — and that's why it's crucial that open platforms like GitHub get all the resources they need to grow and thrive.

Rameez Iqbal

Frontend developer at Nice one | javascript | typescript | vuejs | nuxtjs | reacts | nextjs

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nice

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Nixon ISALU

Founder & CTO at GND Group E.A.

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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Good old Microsoft Mantra. *SlowClapping*

Balram Bhardwaj

Senior Software Developer at Luxoft/DXC Technologies

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:) nice

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