Microsoft Makes Official Announcement on the Acquisition of GitHub

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Microsoft Makes Official Announcement on the Acquisition of GitHub

By CircleID Reporter
June 04, 2018, 7:56 pm PDT Views: 6,779 Add Comment

Microsoft Corp. on Monday released an official announcement stating it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion, confirming rumors reported last week. GitHub is the world’s leading software development platform used by over 28 million developers. From the announcement: “We recognize the community responsibility we take on with this agreement and will do our best work to empower every developer to build, innovate and solve the world’s most pressing challenges. ... GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for all developers in all industries. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects—and will still be able to deploy their code to any operating system, any cloud and any device.”

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