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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by ihsw2 on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:53PM (#17208749)
Perhaps they perceive that AWS and GCP seek to own more of the work infrastructure and they're trying to get out ahead of this.

* email/domain integration

* code hosting

* issue tracking/kanban-based project planning

* CI/CD processes

Developer tooling is evolving and there's a land-grab happening, from small workshops all the way up to global-scale enterprises.

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by toomuchtodo on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:02PM (#17208836)
Its a smart way to increase Azure uptake. Acquire the tools needed as a dev, make your platform a first class citizen and everyone else runner up.