While Microsoft has made some prior moves to be more friendly towards open source (albeit slightly more friendly), Microsoft’s GPLv2 contribution of Linux drivers will be seen as the first legitimate ...
Microsoft surprised, maybe even shocked, the industry by submitting three Linux drivers to the Linux kernel team licensed under the GPLv2 open source license. It’s certainly the most visible and ...
Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago, it ...
Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows. This marks a milestone for a project ...
The rapid evolution of generative AI has created a pressing need for tools that can efficiently prepare diverse data sources for large language models (LLMs). Transforming information that is encoded ...
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the formation ...
Build 2025 was all about AI, but Microsoft also made WSL open-source The company knows just how valuable its community of contributors has been Microsoft wants users to "engage in issue resolution and ...
Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...
At the heart of Microsoft’s more recent operating system updates, in the cloud and on-premises, is virtualization. By isolating operating instances from one another on the same hardware, ...