Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 13, 2017

The once notoriously anti-open source company has realized it's making tons of money in the cloud thanks to open source software. Read More.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The newly formed Open Source Security Foundation includes titans in technology such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and more.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Microsoft has released SynapseML, a new open source project designed to make it easier to create AI model pipelines. Read More.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2024

Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 14, 2021

Microsoft said it has learned a lot from the open source realm, adding that it is now the "accepted model" for cross-company collaboration. Read More.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Microsoft has announced that its open source, platform-agnostic Dapr project is now production ready, with v1.0 available on GitHub. Read More.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

Expanso provides managed services on top of Bacalhau, an open-source platform that enables efficient and secure distributed computation. He was previously the lead product manager for Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine at Google, and head of Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2024

Founded in 2022 by former Microsoft engineers and cybersecurity veterans Ashish Kurmi and Varun Sharma , StepSecurity focuses on CI/CD, an industry term known as continuous integration and continuous delivery that describes the process of automating the development and deployment of applications.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 7, 2021

WhiteSource, a platform that companies such as Microsoft and IBM use to secure their open source software, has raised $75 million. Read More.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Hetz Ventures to fuel growth of its software that provides data infrastructure capabilities at the “edge.” Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5 Expanso’s founding CTO Walid Baruni also worked at Amazon. Other backers in the round include Array Ventures and Protocol Labs.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Microsoft has joined the OpenInfra Foundation as a platinum member, to support "building the next decade of open infrastructure technology." Read More.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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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Computer Weekly

MAY 2, 2017

The city of Rome is advocating a move from Microsoft to open source. Councillor Flavia Marzano explains why cloud computing has not ended the open source debate

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Microsoft is planning to retire its Soundscape iOS app early next month, but it is not going away entirely.

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2024

"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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Venture Beast

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face is going to triple efforts to build an open source community for AI with the close of a $40 million series B round today. Read More.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Open Source Security Foundation has launched the Alpha-Omega Project to help secure the software supply chain. Read More.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

The technology: OctoML is led by the creators of Apache TVM , an open source “deep learning compiler stack” that started as a research project at the UW’s computer science school. Traction : OctoML is working with Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, Bosch, and many others.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache Software Foundation’s widely used open-source Log4j software library. Hackers can use the software flaws to gain control of compromised computers and systems.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 2, 2017

Europe-wide research finds that government departments are deeply dependent on Microsoft software and services, while attempts to migrate to open source are difficult, temporary and sometimes under the radar

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

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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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

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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IT Toolbox

JUNE 22, 2017

There is no possible way that the closed source model will ever be a successful one for software which is integral to computer usage. For years Microsoft denied this. They called open source software a cancer and a disease and vowed to destroy it. Finally Microsoft

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 12, 2021

Facebook, Google, & Microsoft have formed the eBPF Foundation to redefine networking, security, tracing, and observability. Read More.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

First announced at both Revolution Analytics'' and Microsoft''s blogs, on 23 Jan 2015, the purchase of Revolution Analytics by Microsoft was done in order to help customers "find big data value with advanced statistical analysis.". For more information, please check out both the Microsoft and Revolution Analytics blogs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. It is used to execute and improve machine learning tasks such as NLP, computer vision, and deep learning.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Abbas worked at Microsoft for 11 years before joining Amazon in 2010.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Founded in 2019 by former Uber and Microsoft engineers, Chronosphere offers “data observability” software that helps companies using cloud-native architecture monitor their data. The result was M3 , Uber’s open-source production metrics system, which is capable of storing and querying billions of data points per second.

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Tech Republic

JULY 7, 2023

Microsoft Edge is the default browser for Windows 10. This cheat sheet covers the basics of Microsoft Edge, including how to set up the browser and optimize and use key features. The post Microsoft Edge cheat sheet appeared first on TechRepublic.

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TechSpot

MAY 19, 2020

PowerToys, for those who don't know, is an open-source, Microsoft-managed suite of software tools designed to enhance the Windows 10 experience and boost productivity for power users. The Run launcher is the latest addition to this toolset, and it aims to improve upon the basic Run implementation.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A few months after releasing.NET 7, Microsoft is already working on the next version of its open-source, managed framework for software and app development.NET 8 will be finalized at the end of 2023, so there's still plenty of time for developers to adapt and digest all the changes. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2021

Microsoft has expanded its focus on device security under CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft has acquired ReFirm Labs of Fulton, Md., the company behind the Binwalk open-source software that identifies hidden security vulnerabilities in firmware, the software programmed into the memory of devices to provide basic hardware control.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft pulls Wordpad’s plug nearly after 30 years and while it was a fairly expected change, it still hit hard on many people from all around the world who had used the software at least once in their lives. It has nearly been 30 years since the software was released and now it is time to bid farewell.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

. — Miguel de Icaza , who joined Microsoft after the tech giant acquired Xamarin in 2016, is leaving the company, according to a report from ZDNet. de Icaza, known as a leader in open source software development, was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. Xamarin co-founder and CEO Nat Friedman left in November.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The main reason for the limited functionality of most IVIs is that car manufacturers use proprietary software developed by third-party suppliers to power their infotainment systems, meaning car-based apps are also proprietary. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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