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5 open-source Microsoft Office 365 alternatives that won’t cost you a cent

If your main complaint with LibreOffice is that it looks like it's from 2005, then ONLYOFFICE is for you. The desktop editors ...
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I tried Windows 11’s new sudo, then went back to the open-source version

Gsudo, the open-source alternative by Gerardo Grignoli, has been providing sudo features on Windows long before Microsoft ...
Computerworld

“Open source” according to Microsoft

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 ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft executive lauds open source

Microsoft is not viewed as an open source proponent, but a key executive said Wednesday the company recognized the benefits of open source and was becoming more open itself. David Kaefer, director of ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code, Despite Denying Use of Such Software

=====<BR>Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code, Despite Denying Use of Such Software<BR>By LEE GOMES<BR>Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<BR>Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign ...
Computerworld

Microsoft to present open-source blueprint for down economy

Microsoft plans to use this week’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, ...

Microsoft: XAML Studio is now Open Source

The development tool for rapid prototyping of XAML code is now available as open source. It is on its way to version 2.0 with ...
ZDNet

Microsoft rethinks rules on open-source software apps in its Microsoft Store

Microsoft has revised the wording of its Microsoft Store policies after fears the previous wording would ban open-source software developers from making profits from their apps on the store. Giorgio ...
CNET

Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing

An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues. Developers working on the Higgins project want ...
Yahoo

Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era

Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the ...
Network World

Retiring exec tells Microsoft to embrace open-source

Microsoft must take an approach that favors and embraces the diversity of open source software or face oblivion, David Stutz, a departing Microsoft executive, wrote in his farewell letter to the ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft exec broaches open source paradigm

San Francisco — Like a Roman Catholic speaking to an audience of Protestant evangelicals, a Microsoft representative at the Open Source Business Conference Wednesday focused on similarities between ...