Pretty tasteless to publish an article like this without any concrete sources or even confirmations from the Microsoft/Github teams themselves.
"GitHub has earned mindshare within the developer community, and Microsoft’s acquisition is certainly an attempt to garner and cultivate that mindshare. However, the long term strategic implication seems to be that Microsoft wants to use GitHub as a means to drive Azure adoption."
Might be reading too much into this, but the above line in-particular drove me up the wall.
"GitHub has earned mindshare within the developer community, and Microsoft’s acquisition is certainly an attempt to garner and cultivate that mindshare. However, the long term strategic implication seems to be that Microsoft wants to use GitHub as a means to drive Azure adoption."
Might be reading too much into this, but the above line in-particular drove me up the wall.