Microsoft + Open Source articles

Microsoft + Open Source
Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.
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Microsoft at SCaLE 16x 

The team is proud to support the sixteenth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 16x) at the Pasadena Convention Center, California this week. The community-run, free and open source software event is the largest of its kind in North America.

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Connect with the Azure team at KubeCon (or watch the live stream!) 

We’re in Austin this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, where all the CNCF projects will gather under one roof. Conference co-chairs, Microsoft’s Michelle Noorali and Google’s Kelsey Hightower, have put together a compelling program of emerging trends in microservices architectures and orchestration, container operations, distributed logging for containers, serverless, and more.

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Open Source Weekly #4 

Did you know that docs.microsoft.com is home to thousands of pages of documentation, from A to X (ASP.NET to Xamarin)? For technical documentation, API reference, code examples, quickstarts, and tutorials for your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios, check out the inventory here.

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Open Source Weekly #2 

This is our second edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. This will be far from an exhaustive list of everything open source going on around the company.

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Open Source Weekly #1 

This is our first edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. This will be far from an exhaustive list of everything open source going on around the company.

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Open source sessions at Microsoft Ignite 

Last week in Orlando, Microsoft welcomed more than 25,000 people to Microsoft Ignite, where we showcased how we’re infusing cloud, AI and mixed reality across Microsoft’s technologies. Throughout the event, open source technologies took center stage, playing a big part in making this happen.