Microsoft’s shareholders are probably very pleased about this.
But if Microsoft needs to please its shareholders and turn the revenue dial up a bit again (say, because they’ve got themselves tied up in a huge economic bubble, and need to bolster the bottom line after it pops), they might choose to take away some of those free goodies.
In fact, it’s not just a hypothetical – they started doing that just recently. https://web.archive.org/web/20260223084443/https://github.com/resources/insights/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions
Those changes are ‘postponed’, but assume they will come.
Daphne Preston-Kendal
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2026-03-27 18:10:12 UTC
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