Another popular online service owned and operated by Microsoft experienced some extended downtime. This time it was the GitHub developer service and code repository service that suffered an outage on Wednesday evening. Just after 7 pm Eastern time this evening, DownDetector showed that there was a huge spike in GitHub users reporting that the service was not online. GitHub own status page posted its first alert at 7:11 pm Eastern time, stating, We are investigating reports of degraded availab
