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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 ...

On Tuesday night, the company posted to SourceForge its Windows Template Library, a series of code snippits designed to make it easier for developers to create graphic interfaces for Windows programs.

When Bob Hecht joined Informa PLC as its vice president of content strategy, he dreamed of rebuilding the British technical publisher’s infrastructure using Linux and open-source technologies. But ...

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 ...

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 ...