First came the open-sourcing of Microsoft’s .Net software platform. Now comes the open-sourcing of many — if not all — of the tools and support infrastructure for the platform. Last week, Microsoft ...

Microsoft today announced that it has hired the two creators of Glimpse, an open-source debugging and diagnostics tool for ASP.NET applications. Until now the creators, Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik ...

Microsoft also announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for ...

Microsoft has already ruffled more than a few feathers with the exclusionary potential of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, and this past week the open source community has been up in arms ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

The Amazon Alexa dev team has published an open source extension to help developers using the Visual Studio Code editor to create and deploy Alexa skills. In this context, "skills" refers to ...

It's well known how Microsoft has transformed from a proprietary, monolithic software "Evil Empire" to an inclusive open source champion, but just in case you didn't get the message yet, a new company ...

Microsoft has gone from its CEO calling open source a "cancer" in 2001 to buying the pre-eminent open source development platform GitHub in 2018. That surprising journey was recently detailed in a day ...