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GitHub Outage Breach Sparks Exec Exodus, Copilot Pricing Shift

5/22/2026

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GitHub Faces Outages

GitHub suffered outages and a breach of 3,800 repositories during its Azure migration, prompting CTO Vladimir Fedorov to warn of disruptions and apologize.
Former CEO Thomas Dohmke left in August without a successor, leading other executives to depart.
GitHub will end $10-a-month Copilot plan in June, move to usage-based pricing, and said it has 4.7 million subscribers, up 75%, while a March survey found Copilot trailing Claude Code and Gemini Code.

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Microsoft AI slump

Microsoft’s share price fell 13% this year, underperforming peers as investors react to its faltering AI strategy.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, said at a Jakarta event on April 30 2024 that Microsoft must straighten out its AI story.
Enterprise customers such as Cisco are evaluating GitHub alternatives, with GitLab, Amazon and Atlassian gaining attention, after Mitchell Hashimoto warned GitHub is no longer serious work and Jyoti Bansal said Harness may add code-storage.

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GitHub Reaches 180M

GitHub now supports roughly 180 million developers, a six-fold increase since Microsoft’s 2018 acquisition, adding a new user each second.
GitHub leads the devops market, outpacing GitLab, and sees a surge in code-library creation and revisions driven by AI-assisted “vibe coding”.
In March, 12.5% of GitHub traffic used Azure’s Iowa data center, targeting 50% by July.

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GitHub Faces Outages

GitHub suffered outages and a breach of 3,800 repositories during its Azure migration, prompting CTO Vladimir Fedorov to warn of disruptions and apologize.
Former CEO Thomas Dohmke left in August without a successor, leading other executives to depart.
GitHub will end $10-a-month Copilot plan in June, move to usage-based pricing, and said it has 4.7 million subscribers, up 75%, while a March survey found Copilot trailing Claude Code and Gemini Code.

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