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5 open-source Microsoft Office 365 alternatives that won’t cost you a cent

If your main complaint with LibreOffice is that it looks like it's from 2005, then ONLYOFFICE is for you. The desktop editors ...
MUO on MSN

I tried Windows 11’s new sudo, then went back to the open-source version

Gsudo, the open-source alternative by Gerardo Grignoli, has been providing sudo features on Windows long before Microsoft ...
TechCrunch

Dissecting Microsoft’s proposed policy to ban commercial open source apps

Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake-up to the way developers will be able to monetize open source software. There are ...
Network World

Microsoft uses Apache License for open source Outlook tools

Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they’ve been released under the Apache ...
Network World

Microsoft: The Platform and Open Source Company?

We keep seeing some mighty strange talk from Microsoft these days. Not only is Microsoft a platform company now for Microsoft-based applications through the Azure platform, but Microsoft is embarking ...
GeekWire

Microsoft’s new open-source AI solution will beam wildlife data from remote corners of the world

A prototype of the open-source SPARROW device, system, and solar array. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab this morning unveiled a new open-source project and AI-powered edge computing ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft: Open source not cheaper

InfoWorld: Please describe Microsoft’s Shared Source program and its relation to open source and give some examples of code made available through it. Matusow: We ...