Experts say Microsoft is taking on Amazon Web Services in the cloud wars by attracting more developers through GitHub, Linux, and open source.
of GitHub last October, bringing in not only the popular open source code hosting site under its fold, but also an entire community of more than 30 million developers.among developers, as they worried that GitHub will become more closed off and leave developers stuck with only Microsoft technologies.
"Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub does not seem to be pushing developers away," Raimo Lenschow, managing director at Barclays, wrote in a note."Microsoft is taking baby steps to cross-promote Azure without pushing its user base away, which makes sense to us."Microsoft has also made a host of other announcements to curry favor with developers.its browser Edge to support Google's open source web engine Chromium.
on GitHub. And at the Build conference, Microsoft launched enhancements to make programming even easier, such as an artificial intelligence feature that suggests code alternatives to build applications more efficiently, based on data from GitHub's top projects.
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