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Microsoft reverses controversial.NET change after open source community outcry

The Verge

Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming.NET 6 release, after a public outcry from the open source community. Microsoft admits it made a mistake. Microsoft has now reversed the change following a backlash, and anger inside the company from many of Microsoft’s own employees. “We

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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What is Microsoft’s Secure Supply Chain Consumption Framework, and why should I use it?

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft has open sourced its framework for managing open source in software development. The post What is Microsoft’s Secure Supply Chain Consumption Framework, and why should I use it? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state

TechSpot

"In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."

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Meta and Microsoft vets land $2.2M for startup building ‘shared brain’ developer platform

GeekWire

(Augmend Photo) A new artificial intelligence startup wants to help software development teams capture, store, and query their company data and knowledge. Founded earlier this year, the 5-person startup is led by CEO Diamond Bishop , a former engineering leader at Meta that led teams on the open-source machine learning project PyTorch.

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Temporal, a developer productivity startup led by former Uber engineers, raises $75M

GeekWire

The details: The complexity of maintaining code becomes harder as more software development moves to the cloud, particularly with the use of microservices. Temporal’s open-source microservices orchestration platform replaces ad-hoc systems to give developers more time to code.

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Microsoft copied its new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer

The Verge

Microsoft surprised everyone with its new Windows Package Manager (winget) last week, but it looks like the company copied the core mechanics from a developer it interviewed and ghosted. AppGet is a free and open source package manager for Windows, which automates installing software on Windows PCs.

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