The latest beta version of Teams allows you to integrate the GitHub account to facilitate communication between users

Microsoft continues to exploit the investment that, back in 2018, led it to buy GitHub. For those who do not know how this platform works, we will say that it is a portal created to host the code of any developer's applications. On this platform developers upload the code of their applications and tools and thus, in this way, users can also collaborate with their development.

Now Microsoft goes one step further by promoting the use of GitHub, but also of Teams, the American company's tool designed to facilitate teamwork, which has gained prominence as a result of the work that many users have had to do at home motivated by the pandemic.A move now where Microsoft integrates GitHub with Teams

Github and Microsoft Teams

The objective of this integration is none other than to collaborate so that developers find it more useful to bring their applications to a successful conclusion. The integration of both platforms facilitates communication so that once the GitHub account is linked to the Teams account, different actions can be carried out within the latter.

Developers will have an easier time communicating with each other to correct possible bugs, listen to suggestions, comment on updates... The Teams application, which you can download from this link and that allows Github integration is a public beta version, so it is not free from some bugs.

The steps to use GitHub in Teams go through installing the GitHub preview app from the Microsoft Teams app store within the Teams app and then link the GitHub and Teams accounts.For their part, Github users can subscribe and unsubscribe from receiving notifications from a developer as well as share activities with other users.

Teams, not to be confused with To-Do, is one of the applications that Microsoft cares for most carefully We saw a good example ago little when Microsoft added the Lists function or how recently the number of participants in a video call was increased. An application, Teams, with more than 75 million users

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