Last week, Microsoft announced it was open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack, and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms. The move was warmly received across the IT community, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. The company announced that it places to open source most of the full server-side ...

Open-source fans announced on Monday the first steps in an effort to reproduce Microsoft's .Net's underpinnings so people can use the technology without Microsoft's involvement. As previously reported ...

Microsoft's decision to open-source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

Satya Nadella's rapid reinvention of Microsoft continues. In yet another bid to make up lost ground in the long march to the future of computing, Microsoft is now open sourcing the very foundation of ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last month said, "Microsoft loves Linux" and pointed to the fact that 20 percent of its Azure cloud is already running the open source popular platform, he apparently ...

Miguel de Icaza, leader of the Mono project and co-founder of Xamarin Back in 2005, Miguel de Icaza was lucky not to get kicked out of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.

This option is available for NET Core 3.1, .NET 5.0, and .NET 6.0 and will be rolled out through the Automatic updates channel and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and Microsoft Update Catalog.

The code will be released under Microsoft's "look but don't touch" Microsoft Reference License. Unlike traditional open-source licensing, Microsoft's restrictive terms only allow developers to study ...

You can check the .NET Framework version installed on your Windows 11/10 computer in any of the following ways: Using Command Prompt Using Registry Editor Using ...