3 months post Microsoft acquisition, GitHub expanded the free plan to include unlimited private repos.

The next year they removed the limitation on collaborators on private repos for free users.

In the last 4 years they’ve significantly improved their project management tools. I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they’re pretty decent.

Who knows if any of these are directly because of Microsoft or not. But there has naturally been material improvements to GitHub in the years after being bought by Microsoft.