{"id":178,"date":"2018-10-09T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/microsoft-going-for-75b-github\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:10:00","slug":"microsoft-going-for-75b-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/microsoft-going-for-75b-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft going for $7.5b GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">United States software giant, Microsoft, is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its 7.5 billion dollars purchase of privately held coding website GitHub, official sources.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">Microsoft announced the deal in June, its largest acquisition since it bought LinkedIn for 26 billion dollars in 2016.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">The GitHub deal is expected to boost the U.S. software giant\u2019s cloud computing business and challenge market leader Amazon .<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">GitHub, the world\u2019s largest code host, has more than 28 million developers using its platform.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">It will become a part of Microsoft\u2019s Intelligent Cloud unit once the acquisition is completed.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella has tried to assuage users\u2019 worries that GitHub might favor Microsoft products over competitors after the deal.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">It said GitHub would continue to be an open platform that works with all public clouds.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">The European Commission, which is set to decide on the deal by Oct. 19, did not respond to a request for immediate comment. 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