7 open-source apps I'd easily pay money for because they're that good ...

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is confirmed to include GPLv2 code, so Microsoft will release the source code next week Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its ...

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 ...

Microsoft yesterday re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open source code, and has posted the utility’s source code to its own open source site. The move came three ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a set of software tools that basically lets you install and run native Linux applications on a Windows PC without rebooting ...

At ChefCon, Microsoft Technical Fellow and top engineer Mark Russinovich dropped a bombshell in front of several hundred people that use Chef, an open-source website management tool: He said that ...

At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source. Developers can download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and ...

While the tech is being used for Valve's SteamOS projects, the company says it's also "useful for the ecosystem at large." ...