Microsoft 2.5: GitHub COO Kyle Daigle on stitching the developer universe together

What happened

A delicate dance: In August 2025, Microsoft moved to integrate GitHub into the mothership, under its CoreAI division, after having allowed it to run as a quasi-independent entity since acquiring it in 2018. At the same time, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he would leave the company at the end of the year. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Azure.

Kyle Daigle, who now also leads developer marketing across Microsoft, says GitHub is roughly 60% through its migration to Azure as it works through capacity problems and outages. He also talks about GitHub's place in Microsoft's AI agent (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) strategy.

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle, who now also leads developer marketing for all of Microsoft, speaks at GitHub Universe last year. A number of developers feared the worst: GitHub would become just another arm of Microsoft and lose the community-mindedness that had made it attractive to developers of all stripes, and especially open-source ones.

Key facts

• At the same time, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke — announced: he would leave the company at the end of the year