Microsoft’s GitHub was positioned to win the AI coding race. Outages got in the way
Summary
GitHub has experienced repeated outages and a recent security incident that exposed thousands of internal code libraries, prompting enterprises to evaluate alternative code hosting and deployment tools. Executive turnover and delayed infrastructure migrations to cloud providers aggravated availability problems as usage from AI-assisted coding surged. Competitors such as Cursor, Anthropic's Claude Code, GitLab, and cloud offerings from Amazon and Atlassian have gained market share while GitHub adjusts Copilot economics to charge by usage. These issues threaten Microsoft’s early advantage in developer tooling at a critical moment for AI-driven coding adoption.
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