Microsoft on the road to open sourcing the search system used to power Bing
Microsoft is in the process of extending “its open source activity to include projects derived from work done on its Bing Search engine."
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LinkedIn's focus on open source will continue after Microsoft acquisition
Igor Perisic, the vice president of engineering at LinkedIn, explained to eWeek during a Q&A that the company will continue its open-source technology development in light of the recent Microsoft purchase.
Microsoft's recent partnership with Red Hat may help secure US government contracts
Thanks in part to Red Hat’s already bustling presence in federal use, Microsoft can now leverage its new Azure Certification tie-ins into Red Hat’s cloud and service provisions
Microsoft appears to be open sourcing PowerShell
Microsoft may be making moves to open sourcing the PowerShell scripting language.
Microsoft R on Apache Spark coming to Hadoop Summit
Microsoft announces support for Apache Spark on Microsoft R Server, new R client for data scientists, showcasing at Hadoop Summit today.
Latest Microsoft Mechanics video shows Red Hat Linux running on Azure
The Microsoft Mechanics team demonstrates Red Hat Linux running in Azure virtual machines.
Microsoft Edge WebGL GLSL transpiler open-sourced by Microsoft
The Microsoft Edge team is handing over the WebGL renderer over to the public as an open source project on GitHub.
Microsoft creates its own FreeBSD distribution to run on Azure
You can now run Microsoft's own distribution of FreeBSD 10.3 on Azure.
Red Hat Ansible 2.1 supports Windows and Azure to build hybrid, automated environments
Red Hat Inc just announced the general availability of Ansible 2.1 with support for network automation and an expansion of capabilities, thanks in part to its new support for Microsoft Windows environments.
The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power has joined Microsoft
Former Oracle senior VP of Linux and virtualization engineering, Wim Coekaerts, is leaving his post at Oracle to take a position at Microsoft.
Build 2016: Microsoft open-sources Xamarin Runtime
In addition to making Xamarin free, Microsoft has also announced that's it's being open-sourced as well.
Microsoft announces Azure Storage Python Client Library 0.30 preview
Today, Microsoft released version .30 of the Azure Storage Python Client Library. The updated version of the app includes some brand new bells and whistles.
Microsoft Openness Days is their first-ever open source conference for developers in India
Microsoft India is today inaugurating Microsoft Openness Days. The event will also feature Open Hack, India’s first Open Source on Azure hackathon.
Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools open-sourced, published on GitHub
Microsoft has published the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub, making them available to the open source community.
Microsoft expands its involvement with the Open Compute Project with SONIC networking contribution
TO of Microsoft Azure and techno-fantasy author Mark Russinovich spoke at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit today to highlight SONiC.
Microsoft announces it's joining the open source Eclipse Foundation
Microsoft is expanding their support of the open source community by joining the Eclipse Foundation, and announces new tools for developers.
Microsoft to sell Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses for Azure
Microsoft announced another Azure and Linux-friendly development that includes the company bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Azure
Former Windows architect designs open source alternative to PowerPoint called Swipe
Nakajima’s new project, dubbed Swipe, comes by way of an open source initiative to enable users to build the ever coveted media-rich presentation.
