Oct 26, 2022 12:22:00

GitHub's active users reach 90 million, more than tripled from before acquisition by Microsoft

Microsoft has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2023 (July 2022 to September 2022). In the announcement of financial results, it is also announced that the number of active users of the software development platform `` GitHub ''

acquired by Microsoft in 2018 has reached 90 million.

FY23 Q1 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2023-Q1/press-release-webcast

Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-says-github-now-has-a-1b-arr-90m-active-users/

Below are Microsoft's earnings for the first quarter of 2023. Overall revenue increased 11% year-on-year to $ 50.1 billion (about 7.43 trillion yen), and divisional revenue increased 9% year-on-year in the productivity and business process division to $ 16.5 billion (about 2 trillion yen). 450 billion yen), the intelligent cloud sector increased by 20% year-on-year to 20.3 billion dollars (about 3.1 trillion yen), the personal computing sector increased by 0% year-on-year to 13.3 billion yen (about 1.97 trillion yen) )was.

Looking at the revenues of the Personal Computing Division, which did not show growth from the same period last year, by product, revenues from sales of Windows to PC manufacturers decreased by 15% year-on-year, while sales of Xbox hardware decreased by 15% year-on-year. % increase. In addition, advertising revenue in search engines and news distribution increased 16% year-on-year, and it seems that some products are growing steadily.

In the financial results announcement, it was also announced that the number of active users of GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, reached 90 million. According to Microsoft, the number of users at the time of acquisition in 2018 was 28 million. Overseas media TechCrunch said, ``When Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub was announced, many people were worried that GitHub's free service would be reduced. It expanded and continued to embrace the open source community.Also, without Microsoft's help, services like GitHub Copilot would not have been realized, ''he said, and Microsoft is contributing to the open source community through GitHub. I admire you.