Microsoft recently unveiled plenty of surprises regarding the upcoming launch of Windows 10. After announcing that Windows 10 would unite phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops under a single OS, it ...

While it may seem sacrilegious to most in the hardcore open source world, the number of community-developed software deployments on Windows is growing as users look for ways to get the benefits of ...

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.

Let's make the very safe assumption that you have Windows systems in your company. Let's also assume--as is the case in most companies of any size--that you need to write software for them. You have ...

So, with the great amount of open source applications being built on the Windows platform and the support infrastructure from Microsoft, can we call Microsoft an open source (friendly) company? Of ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said this week the company has considered everything when it comes to new open-source initiatives, including Windows. That would be a major departure for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Start menu on Windows 11 is far from the most efficient way to launch apps, so why not use an open-source alternative ...

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