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Microsoft open-sources UEFI/BIOS from Surface for any PC maker to use

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

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 was about to acquire GitHub. Now, the software giant is making another step forward in […]

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Microsoft Office competitor, OpenOffice, could shutdown soon

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

By now we should know about OpenOffice, office suite platform designed to compete with Microsoft Office. It’s quite popular among the open source community and those who cannot spend money on what Microsoft has to offer. Despite its popularity, the […]

Microsoft PowerShell is now open sourced and available on Linux

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

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 surprising seeing as Microsoft has come to understand that folks use multiple computers with different […]

LinkedIn won’t change Open Source strategy despite Microsoft acquisition

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

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 might believe that due to the software giant now taking control of the company, LinkedIn […]

Microsoft releases its own Distribution of FreeBSD operating system

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

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 the change of guard. Yes, Microsoft has decided to add Azure support of FreeBSD. As […]

Chakra

Microsoft to Open Source Chakra; Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Today, on 5th Dec, Microsoft announced that Chakra, Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine, will now be open-source. With this, new opportunities will open up in the world of software, cloud-based services and Internet of Things. The core components of this engine which […]

Microsoft and Red Hat announce a Partnership

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Redmond giant Microsoft and Red Hat, the Linux vendor are now partners. The companies recently revealed their partnership via official blog posts. The sole aim of this partnership according to the companies is to help users deploying the Red Hat […]

Microsoft now offers Open-Source software for academics

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Microsoft now offers Open-Source software for academics. A recent project web page developed by Microsoft Research Team says that the Redmond giant will now offer Open Source code for its research projects and key software for the educational purposes. Open […]

Windows Bridge

Microsoft releases Windows Bridge for iOS as Open Source

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Microsoft seems to introduce unique ways to reach out to people across the globe with its products. Just when everyone was excited for the release of Windows 10 operating system and its free upgrade; Microsoft released Windows Bridge for iOS […]

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PlagueScanner, an Open Source multiple AV scanner framework released

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Recently, GitHub published an open source multiple AV scanner framework, called as PlagueScanner. This open source multiple AV scanner framework is created by security researcher Robert Simmons. PlagueScanner framework is quite similar to the popular AV scanner owned by Google, VirusTotal. […]

Microsoft open sources WorldWide Telescope under the MIT license

By VasudevG@TWC |

Microsoft has open sourced Worldwide Telescope under the MIT License.  Now Worldwide Telescope will be an independent project and will be a part of the .NET foundation. Earlier this year Microsoft had decided that the WorldWide Telescope be made available […]

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Microsoft will Open-Source Windows Live Writer

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Microsoft will now open source its Windows Live Writer tool, says Microsoft’s Scott Hanselman via his tweet on June 10. This is truly great news for lovers of this popular blogging tool. Released back in 2006, Microsoft’s Live Writer is […]

Microsoft Open Technologies

Microsoft absorbs MS Open Technology, on its way to Open Source

By ArunKumar@TWCN |

While declaring that someday the code of Windows operating system will go public, creating a buzz for days, the software giant has now Microsoft Open Technology back to its main company after creating over 2000 open source programs. The MS […]

Microsoft’s ConnectTheDots IoT project adds support to Band Sensors

By ChethanThimmappa@TWCN |

A new update on Microsoft’s open source IoT (Internet of Things) project “ConnectTheDots” brings support to Microsoft Band sensors. Microsoft Open Technologies’ ConnectTheDots.io project aims at connecting tiny devices to Microsoft Azure and to provide IoT solutions in coherence with […]

Open Source is no longer taboo to Microsoft, according to Mark Russinovich

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been the historic closed-software producer in the world, with its proprietary products, services and now online services. However, along with being the doyen of paid-for-software services, the company has also significantly contributed to the development of […]

Microsoft releases the Preview of WinJS 4.0

By ChethanThimmappa@TWCN |

Microsoft has released the preview of WinJS 4.0. WinJS is an Open Source JavaScript library by Microsoft which addresses the needs of web developers. The previous update on this library – WinJS 3.0, was focussed on cross-browser compatibility. By releasing […]

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Microsoft open sources .NET & delivers new tools and capabilities

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Microsoft had made an important announcement. The company announced its plans to open source the entire .NET framework to millions of developers across the globe. The .NET framework, which has been used as the programming model by developers to develop […]

WinJS Open Source

Microsoft makes WinJS JavaScript library Open Source

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

On April 2nd, 2014 Microsoft Open Tech made the WinJS Javascript Library as an Open Source. The source code of WinJS or Windows Library for JavaScript was released under the Apache 2.0 license. As per this news, the source code […]

MS-DOS and Word for Windows code goes Open Source

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

The company that started with a simple OS, has grown into a potential global corporation with over 100,000-plus employees in a few short decades. As the figures stands, Microsoft has managed to sell more than 200 million licenses of Windows […]

Macecraft JV16 PowerTools to go Open Source?

By SupreetBhatia@TWC |

Most of us are familiar with JV16 PowerTools, and its watered down freeware version, PowerTools Lite, released by Macecraft. You would be glad to know that  Macecraft Software is now, after a decade of active development, considering going open-source, and  […]

Open-Xchange Launches Open Source Office Productivity Suite

By RogerDunning@TWCN |

Open source software developer, Open-Xchange is all set to launch its cloud based office productivity suite – OX Documents. The browser-based alternative office suite is built using HTML 5 and Javascript technology & mainly feature an in-browser word processing tool known as […]