open-source

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft software for open source software

3 years

Barcelona, one of the most popular cities in the Europe is now switching to open-source software by replacing Microsoft Windows, Office and Exchange with Linux, Libre Office and Open Xchange respectively. The city council is alrea...

PowerShell Core 6.0 now available on Windows, macOS, and Linux

by Pradeep

3 years

Microsoft today announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0. PowerShell Core 6.0 is the first cross-platform enterprise supported release and it is also open-source. The original Windows PowerShell was built on top o...

Classic Shell for Windows 10 goes Open Source

by Surur

3 years

Every month NetApplicatons confirms that Windows 7 is still the most popular version of Windows, but PC users are definitely seeing a pressure to upgrade if only because new PCs come with Windows 10 and consumers do not generally ...

Munich Council votes to ditch Linux by 2020

by Surur

3 years

Earlier in the year, we reported that Munich City Council was set to vote on a proposal to move all of their desktop Linux seats over to Windows by 2020. The council has been running a 10 year Linux-on-desktop experiment and foun...

GitHub introduces a brand-new desktop app built on Electron

by Mehedi Hassan

4 years

GitHub is introducing a brand-new desktop app. The company today launched the new desktop app as a beta for Windows and macOS. The new desktop app for GitHub is built on Electron, which is also powering some of the other popular d...

Developer Submission: CodeHub – A Free & Open Source GitHub Client for Windows

by devaalok

4 years

CodeHub is a free and open source UWP GitHub client. It helps you keep up with the open source world with features like: Trending repositories News Feed Star, Watch and Fork repositories Follow users View code files with syntax hi...

Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine

by Pradeep

4 years

Graph Engine, previously known as Trinity, is a distributed, in-memory, large graph processing engine. It supports both low-latency online query processing and high-throughput offline analytics on billion-node large graphs. Its gr...

Munich city now planning to move ALL their Linux desktops back to Windows

by Surur

4 years

We posted last year that the Munich City council was planning to break from its 10 year Linux-on-desktop experiment by allowing users once again to choose Windows for their work PC, after complaints of poorer productivity and comp...

Telerik UI for UWP is now open source and free

by Pradeep

4 years

Telerik today announced that they are open sourcing Telerik UI for UWP and they are making it available on GitHub. UI for UWP is a suite of 20+ UI controls for developers building UWP applications which include a variety of contro...

Microsoft open sources cloud-based modelling tool for biological research

by Pradeep

4 years

Bio Model Analyzer is a biological modelling tool that illustrates signalling pathways and determines cellular stabilization. This tool basically allows the researchers to quickly test many more possibilities than were previously ...

Microsoft open sources Azure Media Services Live Monitoring Dashboard

by Pradeep

4 years

Microsoft today announced that they are open-sourcing Azure Media Services (AMS) Live Monitoring Dashboard on GitHub. The Live Monitoring Dashboard is a .NET C# app that enables Azure Media Services customers to view the health of...

Microsoft announces experimental support for Node-ChakraCore on macOS

by Sean Chan

4 years

Back at the NodeSummit, Microsoft announced experimental support for Node-ChhakraCore on Linux. Today, the company has announced experimental support for Node-ChakraCore on macOS. With Node-ChakraCore, developers can use Node.js ...