Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company’s software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET ...

Microsoft's decision to open-source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

It's a big day for Microsoft and its (soon to be even larger) cadre of dedicated developers: Starting today, Microsoft is making the core parts of its .Net framework open-source, and cross-platform on ...

Microsoft has released the open source code for CoreCLR, the execution engine for its .NET Framework fork, .NET Core. .NET Core was opened-sourced last year, and aims to make it simpler to develop ...

Microsoft is planning to open source the full server-side .NET core stack and to take that open-sourced .NET core to Linux and Mac OS X, alongside Windows. Microsoft officials announced the company's ...