Microsoft for Developers
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Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub
Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing capabilities in Azure Test Plans, and the deep integrations across the suite. GitHub is the world’s largest developer community, with over 100M developers. It also serves over 4M organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 100. It’s beloved by developers and at the foref...
Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together
At Microsoft, we strive to build the world’s most beloved developer tools and services. Our vision is to empower every developer to transform their concepts into reality, from idea to code to cloud, at lightning speed. The Visual Studio family, Azure, GitHub, and GitHub Copilot empower developers around the world to do just that. Since GitHub joined Microsoft in 2018, we’ve been working hard to bring our tools and services together to deliver a productive and delightful experience for developers so they can focus on driving innovation through their code. We started by integrating features and services develope...
Welcome to the Microsoft for Developers blog
Did you know that developers use an average of 16 tools per day? A typical developer works across their code editor, a terminal, several command-line tools and web portals – not to mention all the SDKs and packages they take a dependency on in their code. Sometimes it can be challenging to figure out how to make it all work together. If you’re tasked with providing guidance and common infrastructure for other developers on your team, you may need to wrestle with many more tools and services. Whether you use the Visual Studio family of IDEs, GitHub, Azure DevOps or build apps for Azure, Windows, M365, Teams or ...