What is it with Microsoft and open source? It’s not so complicated. Microsoft hates the competition from open source. Microsoft loves the benefits of open source. Microsoft wants the customers who ...

=====<BR>Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code, Despite Denying Use of Such Software<BR>By LEE GOMES<BR>Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<BR>Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign ...

Microsoft is not viewed as an open source proponent, but a key executive said Wednesday the company recognized the benefits of open source and was becoming more open itself. David Kaefer, director of ...

Microsoft plans to use this week’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, ...

Microsoft has revised the wording of its Microsoft Store policies after fears the previous wording would ban open-source software developers from making profits from their apps on the store. Giorgio ...

Simplewall offers a powerful alternative. It’s a 2MB download that transforms your PC from a leaky sieve into a digital ...

Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Strategic Platforms at Microsoft, said some pretty unexpected things during his interview on my podcast this week. I’ve gone back and listened to the interview with Sam ...

Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Microsoft must take an approach that favors and embraces the diversity of open source software or face oblivion, David Stutz, a departing Microsoft executive, wrote in his farewell letter to the ...

According to Satya Nadella, Microsoft loves Linux. He said as much, complete with pictures — and his team backs him up. In itself, it’s a remarkable statement. Nadella’s predecessor, Steve Ballmer, ...

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...