What’s it like to be an open source company that’s also a Microsoft partner dependent on the Windows world? Not bad, says Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise Software. The rise of Linux in the data center, ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

GitHub, Google, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and VMware are just a few founding members of the Linux Foundation’s latest initiative that aims to smash open source software security bugs. OpenSSF’s ...

Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is ...

Subscription fatigue is real. If you’re feeling locked in by Microsoft Word and tired of paying for features you’ll never use, open-source word processors are a solid alternative. Tools like ...

Microsoft plans to use this week’s Open Source Business Conference to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, according ...

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 ...

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

InfoWorld: Please describe Microsoft’s Shared Source program and its relation to open source and give some examples of code made available through it. Matusow: We ...

Rabbits, white rabbits on Wednesday’s IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft “embraces” open source licensing. Not to mention how NASA discovered those naughty drunken astronauts… Eric Lai tugs at the ...

In a major extension of corporate policy, Microsoft has quietly started a program to provide selected large enterprise customers with copies of the source code for Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, ...