The fact is open source isn’t just for Linux and there are dozens of community-developed applications that run well on Windows (SourceForge list) with more in the works. Not that there aren’t some ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a set of software tools that basically lets you install and run native Linux applications on a Windows PC without rebooting ...

So, with the great amount of open source applications being built on the Windows platform and the support infrastructure from Microsoft, can we call Microsoft an open source (friendly) company? Of ...

Microsoft yesterday re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open-source code, and has posted the utility’s source code to its own open-source site. The move came three ...

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Being a Windows user since Windows 98, I have seen many upgrades to the OS, but every version still leaves you wanting something more. Over the years, I have tried many open-source tools, some of ...

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A lot has changed in my computing habits in the past five years. Back at the start of 2021, I was happily using Windows 10 on my device and getting my work done on Word. Fast-forward to today, and I'm ...