This was exactly my thought. More or less downtime (as reported by a status page) is probably affected more by changes to policies re: how / when incidents are

This was exactly my thought. More or less downtime (as reported by a status page) is probably affected more by changes to policies re: how / when incidents are posted publicly between "Github" and "Microsoft Github". Subjectively speaking (using Github daily) I haven't noticed a difference. In general, Github has never been extremely reliable even pre-Microsoft.