Updated PowerToys v0.27.0. ships with accessibility improvements and more!
PowerToys version 0.27 has now gone live with many stability and quality improvements. The updated version can be downloaded from the GitHub release page. The […]
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Windows Terminal announces new settings UI, deepens ties with WinUI
Windows Terminal will soon receive the settings UI, which will be based on WinUI 2 controls that currently exist. Microsoft continues to add several new […]
Windows Terminal Preview 1.3 brings command palette, advanced tab switcher and more
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Terminal Preview 1.3 release. It brings several new features and improvements such as in the form of a […]
Data breach checker website Have I Been Pwned is set to go open-source
In good news for cybersecurity enthusiasts, Have I Been Pwned is all set to go open-source, the founder Troy Hunt has confirmed. Do you take […]
Microsoft announces Kubernetes-based Open Service Mesh (OSM)
Microsoft has come up with its new open-source service mesh that runs on Kubernetes, which is an open-source platform for managing containerized applications. Microsoft has […]
GitHub public roadmap announced for the first time
GitHub has announced its public roadmap for the first time to help developers understand what is expected of the Microsoft-owned source code management service in […]
GitHub to preserve all active public repositories in frozen mountains till the year 3020
Microsoft-owned source code management service GitHub has designed what it calls the GitHub Archive Program to store a 21 terabyte of active repositories into a […]
Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 is now available
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 release. Last month, Microsoft extended the availability of Windows Terminal for enterprise use, courtesy […]
GitHub makes its core features available free for all teams
GitHub, a Microsoft-owned company that provides developers community with an open-source software development version control system, has announced that some of its core features are […]
Microsoft’s Integrity Policy Enforcement project to solve code integrity issues in Linux Kernel
Microsoft has been working on a new project for Linux kernel. The company has announced the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE), which happens to be a […]
Silverlight comes back as open source OpenSilver
Microsoft started recommending everyone to abandon their Silverlight technology around five years ago. The technology was developed to deliver rich content on the web as […]
Microsoft announces PowerToys in preview
PowerToys were a set of system utilities from the times of Windows 95 and Windows XP. However, it was slowly discontinued as the Windows operating […]
Microsoft open sources PowerToys
If PowerToys rings a bell, then I am pretty sure you had used Windows XP. These were small tweak from Windows engineers to test prototype […]
Windows 10 to ship with DTrace open source debugging and diagnostic tool
Windows 10 will now be shipped with DTrace, an open source debugging and diagnostic tool. DTrace will be shipped in Windows 10 v1903, according to […]
Windows Calculator is now Open Source
The Windows Calculator has grown from being a basic calculator to an advanced one. Going further, Microsoft has announced to open source Windows Calculator on […]
Microsoft open-sources UEFI/BIOS from Surface for any PC maker to use
Microsoft over the years has slowly been showing its acceptance of open source, and this was made even more clear when the company announced it […]
Windows 3.0 File Manager goes open-source; now works with Windows 10
For those who have been using Windows for a while, you might remember a file manager that came with Windows 3.0. This first debuted in […]
Microsoft PowerShell is now open sourced and available on Linux
Microsoft has done something rather interesting recently. The company decided to open source its PowerShell tool, so now, it’s available on Linux. This shouldn’t be […]
LinkedIn won’t change Open Source strategy despite Microsoft acquisition
Before Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, the company was very much interested in Open Source and has been developing its technology to focus in that direction. One […]
Microsoft releases its own Distribution of FreeBSD operating system
Microsoft earlier was averse to the idea of Open-source software but that’s a thing of the past. The recent announcement from the software giant indicates […]
