--- title: Microsoft’s pitch to enterprises: Ditch Azure Repos for... description: Microsoft is pushing enterprise customers to migrate from Azure Repos to GitHub using a new tool called Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM), currently in limited... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-s-pitch-to-enterprises-ditch-azure-repos-for-github-despite-its-rocky-reliability-record-h3h6ujb7s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft’s pitch to enterprises: Ditch Azure Repos for GitHub, despite its rocky reliability record | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is pushing enterprise customers to migrate from Azure Repos to GitHub using a new tool called Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM), currently in limited... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-s-pitch-to-enterprises-ditch-azure-repos-for-github-despite-its-rocky-reliability-record-h3h6ujb7s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/H3H6uJb7S.png og:image:alt: Microsoft’s pitch to enterprises: Ditch Azure Repos for GitHub, despite its rocky reliability record og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft’s pitch to enterprises: Ditch Azure Repos for GitHub, despite its rocky reliability record **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is pushing enterprise customers to migrate from Azure Repos to GitHub using a new tool called Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM), currently in limited public preview. ELM enables near-zero-downtime migrations by keeping source and destination repos in sync during the transition, with a final cutover window typically under 30 minutes. It preserves Git history, branches, tags, and pull request metadata, but pipelines, work items, wikis, and test plans must be migrated separately. Microsoft's own CAP organization moved 1,600+ repos and 3,100 developers in six months as a proof of concept. The strategic driver is AI — GitHub is where Copilot and agentic development tools live, and Azure Repos is not. However, the pitch is complicated by GitHub's repeated outages in 2025-2026 under surging AI-driven load, a significant cost jump ($6/user vs. $21/user), and a recent Miasma worm supply chain attack that disabled 73 Microsoft-owned GitHub repositories and broke CI/CD pipelines globally. Community reaction suggests many see this as an implicit Azure Repos deprecation notice. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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