I am excited and many Microsoft employees I know are excited by Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. I was thrilled with the acquisition of LinkedIn, but GitHub is different. As an engineer employed by a core engineering and product company, this is truly exciting.
In my personal opinion, it is a testament to Microsoft’s commitment to open source. In the last several years, Microsoft has contributed significantly to open source, and this commitment will continue with this major buy. Long gone are those days when Microsoft products worked only on windows, now they work on all platforms and all browsers. It is not surprising that the Outlook mobile app is one of the heavily downloaded apps from mobile app stores and all Microsoft mobile office and other apps are widely being used across Android and Apple devices.
As a company that is on the verge of reaching a trillion-dollars market cap, Microsoft has embraced a “learn it all” culture with no arrogance under Satya’s leadership. Microsoft feels like a changed company with its growth mindset culture, and commitment to open source, diversity and people empowerment. Microsoft is more confident than ever.
With its intelligent cloud, productivity tools and also personal computing product sales growing in double digits, Microsoft is attracting more and more developers. This acquisition will motivate more developers to use Microsoft platforms.
(These are my personal opinions and thoughts only.)
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