Microsoft Acquisition of GitHub Clears European Commission Review

When the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub was announced back in June of this year with a $7.5 billion dollar price tag, it caused a lot of concerns throughout the open source software community and even fueled the move of thousands of repositories to competitor GitLab. The dust has now settled for the most part. This week's news that the European Commission has signed off on the Microsoft acquisition allows that process to continue moving forward. The Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is now expected to easily close by the end of this calendar year and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Nat Friedman is taking the reigns as the companies CEO.

Friedman told GitHub employees earlier this year that GitHub will continue to operate independently as a community, platform, and business plus retain their current product approach to keep nurturing and caring for all aspects of developer experience on the service.

Business for GitHub has continued as usual since the Microsoft acquisition was announced earlier in the year and the company just recently wrapped up their GitHub Universe event in San Francisco just before the Eu's approval was announced. However, waiting for that news did not keep GitHub from announcing several new services and capabilities on the service.

In addition to those new enhancements, GitHub Learning Lab has been expanded to provide even more opportunities to learn more about using Github with subjects covering workflows, reviewing pull requests, and using GitHub apps.

It seems that even as this Microsoft acquisition closes in the next couple of months, GitHub is going to continue to work towards being a trusted open source software repository. Expect to hear more about this when Microsoft announces their fiscal year 2019 first-quarter earnings next week.

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