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 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 ...

These open-source apps fix everyday Windows annoyances so well, it’s baffling Microsoft hasn’t built them in yet.

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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft Excel is practically synonymous with spreadsheets, but the cost, along with being trapped in Microsoft's ecosystem, ...

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, ...

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 ...