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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Connect with Microsoft at the Node Summit 

We’re in San Francisco this week for Node Summit, the largest conference focused exclusively on Node.js and “The…

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Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino is now open source 

This week, Microsoft announced that the Arduino extension for Visual Studio Code is now open source. The extension…

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Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev 

Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted…

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Open source took center stage at Microsoft Build 2017 

Microsoft supports the diverse needs of every organization and developer – from core infrastructure services to platform services…

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Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017 

Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on…

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Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available 

During yesterday’s Data Amp event, Microsoft announced the new Microsoft R Server 9.1, which is available now. In addition to…

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Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available 

This week at the DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6, backed by Microsoft’s…

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Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 

This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as…

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Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 

In an unprecedented partnership, Microsoft and FOSSASIA (the largest open source technology advocate in Asia) worked together to…

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Meet up with JavaScript and TypeScript pros in Prague, Bucharest, and Łódź 

Last week, our resident JavaScript and TypeScript pros, Josh Gavant and Dan Silver began a tour through Central…

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More open source resources for Microsoft cloud partners 

According to IDC forecasts, more than 60% of enterprises are embracing open source and open APIs as the…

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Microsoft’s open source Project Olympus grows partner ecosystem 

Introduced in November 2016, Project Olympus is Microsoft’s next generation rack-level solution that is open sourced through Open…

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Updates to HDInsight tools for IntelliJ and Eclipse now available 

HDInsight is Microsoft Azure’s managed Hadoop-as-a-service. It is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open…

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Register for free cloud trainings in a city near you 

Around the world in 2017, Microsoft is hosting a series of free, two-day technical trainings for IT professionals…