Early today, Brian Harry of Microsoft announced that, after 11 years, the company is closing the doors on its open source code sharing site named CodePlex. Started before GitHub became 'the place for code to be', the site mostly hosted Windows focused software code and never really took off with the community in general. When GitHub came along a few years later, the sites fate seemed doomed. Today, Microsoft formally admitted it with this announcement. GitHub has won.

According to the company, the site will be placed in read-only mode in October and, on December 17th, 2001, the site will be decommissioned completely and the servers turned off. Microsoft encourages all developers to follow their lead and move their projects over the Github during the remaining life of CodePlex.