The company's lawyers have joined its campaign against open-source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft tools. Stephen Shankland ...

Microsoft announced on Monday that it's planning to end its 20-year-old Open License program for small and midsize organizations, starting on Jan. 1, 2022. On that date, it won't be possible for ...

The U.S. District Court in Washington will review on Sept. 11 the state of the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program, which is Microsoft’s program for licensing more than 200 proprietary protocols ...

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s ...

As part of the agreement Microsoft has struck with the European Commission to offer a ballet screen for browsers, Microsoft has issued what it calls the “Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers.” The ...

Microsoft 365 Education licensing allows faculty, staff, and students to have access to a suite of Microsoft 365 applications that includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Due to changes to the ...

Former Windows Division chief Steven Sinofsky has offered some context and a defense for Microsoft's war on open source in the 1990s and early 2000s. Sinofsky has fired off a series of tweets in ...

Microsoft's "Open License program" will end on Jan. 1, 2022, and not just for commercial customers, but also for government, education and nonprofit organizations, Microsoft affirmed in a Dec. 17 ...

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