{"id":218567,"date":"2026-05-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:05:26","slug":"microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft was positioned to win in AI coding. Outages got in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way.html\">Microsoft was positioned to win in AI coding. Outages got in the way<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points summarizing the article about Microsoft and GitHub:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Microsoft initially had a strong position in AI-assisted coding through GitHub, its leading tool for collaborative code management, but recent reliability challenges and leadership shifts have impacted its standing.<br \/>\n&#8211; Repeated GitHub outages, affecting large companies like Cisco, have contributed to declining user trust and led some customers to explore alternative tools.<br \/>\n&#8211; Competition from newer AI-assisted coding services such as Cursor, Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and Google&#8217;s Gemini Code Assist has diminished GitHub&#8217;s early advantage.<br \/>\n&#8211; Internal turmoil, including executive turnover and the retirement of key leaders, has further complicated GitHub&#8217;s position as it seeks to balance new AI capabilities with service reliability.<br \/>\n&#8211; GitHub&#8217;s struggle to keep up with the growing demand for its AI-assisted coding features has coincided with its efforts to migrate beyond its primary cloud provider, Azure, to a multi-cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\n&#8211; Price increases for GitHub&#8217;s Copilot service, aimed at addressing usage demands and ensuring reliability, might drive some developers to abandon the platform in favor of cheaper alternatives, further exacerbating its challenges.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft was positioned to win in AI coding. Outages got in the way https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-was-positioned-to-win-in-ai-coding-outages-got-in-the-way.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108308419-1779120436513-gettyimages-2150295029-INDONESIA_MICROSOFT.jpeg?v=1779120492&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218569,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218567\/revisions\/218569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}