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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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=====<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 ...

Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company’s actions, Microsoft can’t seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it’s war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry ...

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 ...

Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

Continuing its flirtation with open source, Microsoft on Monday posted the code of a little-known collaboration application to open-source development site SourceForge.net. Continuing its flirtation ...

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 ...

I don’t know if you’ve paid attention, but installing apps on a PC can be a real pain. While the Microsoft Store is the ...