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There was a rumor that Microsoft is buying Github for few days but none of them officially announced it. But today morning the tech giant Microsoft officially announced that its acquiring Github for $7.5 billion. Its is the second largest acquisition after Satya Nadella become Microsoft CEO. The first one is Linkedin for $26.2 billion. GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular with developers and companies hosting entire projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. There are 85 million repositories hosted on GitHub, and 28 million developers contribute to them. GitHub will now be led by CEO Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, who will report to Microsoft’s Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie. GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath will now become a technical fellow at Microsoft, also reporting into Guthrie. Now the biggest question and fear among the developer is, this acquisition will put a major...

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a "read only" document that cannot be altered, it preserves the exact formatting and styling of documents. It never loose its format while you reproduce it or viewing it online. It is widely used for creating eBooks. Many people use third party application or online converter to convert the documents from word to PDF. But you can directly save a word document into PDF by using the SaveAsPDFandXPS . SaveAsPDFandXPS is an Add-in provided by Microsoft. It works finely in both MS office 2007 and 2010. All you need to do is download the Add-in by clicking here and install it. After you finish creating the document in MS word just click the save as option and save the file type as PDF (See the below picture). I Hope it'll be useful for you :)