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Microsoft employees are calling on the company to resist pressure to censor a GitHub repository where tech workers in China are protesting unfair labor practices.

Shanku Niyogi, who previously spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft and was most recently head of Google's Cloud Platform, has joined GitHub to lead its Product Team.

Now under Microsoft's wing, GitHub is making a major change for free users: private repositories are now available to create at no charge.

Microsoft has officially completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, bring to a close a process that first began in July.

Microsoft has received the green light from EU regulators on its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub.

The EU appears set to give Microsoft the green light on its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub.

EU antitrust regulators are set to either give Microsoft's GitHub acquisition the green light or investigate further, by October 19.

Microsoft's Nat Friedman, the future CEO of GitHub, recently sat down for a Reddit AMA to address questions about the acquisition.

Microsoft is to acquire code repository GitHub for $7.5 billion.