Microsoft has more open source contributors on GitHub than Facebook and Google

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Over the past couple of years, Microsoft has, under the reign of CEO Satya Nadella, embraced open source like never before.

It’s a remarkable shift for the Redmond giant, which traditionally kept its trade secrets and powerful technologies behind closed doors. One major sign of that is new data from GitHub, which is home to some of the Web’s biggest collaborative code projects.

The company, which counted more than 5.8 million active users on its platform over the past 12 months, noted that Microsoft topped the list of organizations with the most open source contributors.

With 16,419 contributors, Microsoft beat out Facebook (15,682 contributors), Docker (14,059 contributors) and Google (12,140).

Of course, this didn’t happen overnight. In October 2014, it open sourced its .NET framework, which is the company’s programming infrastructure for building and running apps and services – a major move towards introducing more developers to its server-side stack.

Since then, it’s open sourced its Chakra JavaScript engine, Visual Studio’s MSBuild compiling engine, the Computational Networks Toolkit for deep learning applications, its Xamarin tool for building cross-platform apps and most recently, PowerShell.

It’s great to see Microsoft adopt and stick with this approach to building tools and services that developers can take advantage of, without having to invest heavily in closed systems – while also being able to contribute to and improve them.

GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath believes Microsoft is truly committed to the open source movement. In an interview with Fortune, he noted, “The big .Net project has more people outside of Microsoft contributing to it than people who work at Microsoft.”

It’s also worth noting that the company’s Visual Studio Code text editor made GitHub’s list of repositories with the most contributors. You can check out these lists, as well as other data from GitHub’s platform on this page.

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Our company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was founded in 1998, we’ve grown to serve millions of people around the world.

When Larry met Sergey

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages.

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  1998
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  Larry Page and Sergey Brin
• Incorporation
  September 4, 1998
• Initial public offering (NASDAQ)
  August 19, 2004
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  Mountain View
  CA 94043

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Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity—which until then didn’t exist.

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The first “Google doodle” in 1998 was intended to let visitors to the homepage know that Google’s minders were offline at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. There’s now a team of “doodlers” and we’ve posted more than 2,000 different doodles on homepages worldwide.

Do-It-Yourself ads

In 2000, we introduced AdWords, a self-service program for creating online ad campaigns. Today our advertising solutions, which include display, mobile and video ads as well as the simple text ads we introduced more than a decade ago, help thousands of businesses grow and be successful.

Gmail: no joke

On April Fools' Day in 2004, we launched Gmail. Our approach to email included features like speedy search, huge amounts of storage and threaded messages.

Gone public

Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock took place on Wall Street on August 18, 2004.

 location, location

We acquired digital mapping company Keyhole in 2004, and launched Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005. Today Maps also features live traffic, transit directions and street-level imagery, and Earth lets you explore the ocean and the moon.

Broadcast yourself

In 2006, we acquired online video sharing site YouTube. Today 60 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute. Cat videos, citizen journalism, political candidacy and double rainbows have never been the same.

The little green robot arrives

Amidst rumors of a “Gphone,” we announced Android—an open platform for mobile devices—and the Open Handset Alliance, in 2007.

The comic heard ‘round the world

Word got out about Google Chrome a day ahead of schedule when a comic book introducing our new open source browser was shipped earlier than planned. We officially launched on September 2, 2008.

CEO and chairman

Larry Page, Google’s original CEO until 2001, took up the title again in April 2011. Eric Schmidt, now our executive chairman, served in the role for 10 years.

Google+

In June 2011, we introduced the Google+ project, aimed at bringing the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web, and making all of Google better by including people, their relationships and their interests.

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Joy is my teacher, as a mother, I am proud of:   Sheikh Hasina

Introduced for the first time, "ICT for Development Award, was the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her IT consultant Joy.

United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday evening local time, at a ceremony at the UN Plaza Hotel Hollywood actor Robert Davy handed over the award to win.

The guest of honor, the Prime Minister said, "I have to win from the computer to run. So he is my teacher.

"Not only that, through the development of information technology of the poor working class people from all walks of life to achieve self-reliance among the people of that awakening has been the mantra from winning. ... Gaurabanbitabodha I'm honored to be the mother of such a child."

UN Sustainable Development Goals (esadiji) was adopted on the occasion of the first anniversary of the World Organization of the Governance and Competitiveness, triphinio plan, Global Fashion for Development and the School of Business at the University of New Haven in the US state of Connecticut has introduced a joint award.

As IT specialist Joy Joy 007 "Young Global Leader" at the World Economic Forum selected. He was honored as the first.

008 Awami League had promised that he was one of the 'Digital Bangladesh' fabricated.The government played a leading role in this initiative win.

After graduating in Computer Science from the University of Bangalore, India, the United States Computer Engineering University of Texas at Arlington was won.

Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he said.

The winning mother, she said, the Pakistani army during the Liberation War of Bangladesh war, he was under house arrest.

"So at the time of the conquest. Relatives did not get any at that time. "

And when you win at Harvard, when the state of emergency in Bangladesh's caretaker government to be a prisoner of Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina highlighted. 

She thanked the promoters of this award, "backward communities through information technology to promote the recognition of the role of Joy Joy effect uncompromising dedication to the respect of the people think."

Emotions flooded after taking the award winning "My mother told the story of his affliction, I was born, he did not forget the terrible plight of those days."

The adviser said the prime minister would have been honored to receive the award, "This achievement awards the same time, the Government of Bangladesh officials and servants at all levels. They are working together with the implementation of Digital Bangladesh. "

Local Government, Village Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, State Minister, former Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Ambassador Mohammad Ziauddin Washington, Masud Bin Momen Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations were present at the ceremony.