GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.

Why would Microsoft, a software company that has achieved global dominance through writing proprietary software, spend $7.5 billion on GitHub, a company dedicated to building up a world-beating ...

Microsoft is buying developer love and a giant community with its $7.5 billion GitHub deal, and it can’t afford to mess it all up. Microsoft’s actions will determine if the community sticks ...

Imposing 2FA as a mandatory measure for all GitHub accounts will make the platform a safer space where users can feel more confident about the quality of the code they download from repositories.