Satya Nadella pointed to several moves Microsoft is making in the open-source community during his annual keynote presentation.
Open-source software once represented a threat for Microsoft, but as the company has recalibrated to focus more on cloud services, its has come to embrace open-source.Microsoft is now a major contributor of open-source code on GitHub.
It's different from the approach that was in place under Nadella's two successors, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. In past years Microsoft competed aggressively against open-source technologies and collected revenue with patent royalties. Microsoft even bought GitHub, arguably the most prominent place where people go to download and contribute to open-source software. Microsoft has becomeOver time, this strategy could help make developers more willing to make Azure the destination for new applications. AWS has business from growing apps like Airbnb, Lyft and Uber.
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