content: What does GitHub bring to Microsoft? I’m not a MS fan in any way. I have built several havkintoshes and have owned Apple products since the Apple IIc (friends had the IIe). So why blow all that cash on GitHub? It really seems retarded but I’m thinking a big part of this was customer acquisition. But GitHub is basically free and their paying customers could keep GitHub going. True but lots of GitHub users pay for services the check their code or deploy across various machines. I use VSTS to listen to my GitHub repo, I make a commit, VSTS takes my code, applies what ever I need to make my code server ready, and then puts my code on what ever machine I have given VSTS access too. I can drop code into my dev environment and if it goes green it drops code into a user testing location and even later into production. The pipeline features are awesome. Ok VSTS is cool so what! Don’t forget that azure competes with Amazon AWS and other places. Windows server is ok but ... is it that much better than Apache or nginx? I dont Think so. Lots of corporations are going to the cloud and MS is on this game pretty well. They might have fucked their phone real bad but not the cloud. So does GitHub make any sense now? I have a feeling they are beefing up their vertical line. From lines of code to full services on their stack within their stack. If you can keep GitHub rolling like it was before the SJW day’s then people will look at VSTS because it is good. Once they have this and realize azure is just as good as AWS, they will stick with the honey smooth transition. Does this mean more windows sales? I doubt it. I don’t think they care really. They are looking enterprise and corporations. So does their purchase make sense? Yeah, I think it does. Could they have built their own GitHub? Of course but who would use it?