On Tuesday I wrote about a conversation I had with Shaun Walker, founder of the popular open source DotNetNuke Web application framework for .NET. I wrote about Shaun's experience founding DotNetNuke ...

Describing the move as "the biggest transformation of .NET since its inception," Microsoft this week announced the open source release of .NET Core 1.0, along with ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity ...

At one time, commercial software giant Microsoft was known as a company that was unfriendly to the open source software movement. Former CEO Steve Ballmer even referred to the popular open source ...

Seasoned open source code developers are concerned that an effort to produce an open source alternative to Microsoft's .Net development platform may be held hostage by the software giant, if the ...

Miguel de Icaza, leader of the Mono project and co-founder of Xamarin Back in 2005, Miguel de Icaza was lucky not to get kicked out of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.

Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .Net server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .Net Core. The announcement was surprising, thanks to ...

NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earlier this year, foreshadowing today’s announcements. (Microsoft photo) In a major strategy change designed to expand its horizons in the cloud, Microsoft will take its ...