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 ...

I have long written about the opportunity for Microsoft and open source. Heck, I even suggested that Microsoft should buy Red Hat — fat chance, but just imagine the possibilities. Over the past two ...

Microsoft Corp. is providing the funding for a new foundation aimed at bringing open-source and proprietary software companies together to participate side by side in open-source projects. According ...

There’s been plenty of speculation this week about the consequences of the announced retirement of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But I’ve seen little that considers the consequences of the management ...

A prototype of the open-source SPARROW device, system, and solar array. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab this morning unveiled a new open-source project and AI-powered edge computing ...

Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

For more than a year, Microsoft has been simulating its entire Azure network infrastructure as a way to find bugs and troubleshoot problems before they become network outages. Microsoft has officially ...

A new office suite built on open source is the latest salvo in Europe's push to wrest control of its data from US tech giants ...

I switched from Adobe to open-source and will never go back ...