Let's make the very safe assumption that you have Windows systems in your company. Let's also assume--as is the case in most companies of any size--that you need to write software for them. You have ...

Microsoft made some key open source-related announcements at its Build conference this week, including the debut of Windows Terminal, an open source command-line console for Windows 10 that ...

While it may seem sacrilegious to most in the hardcore open source world, the number of community-developed software deployments on Windows is growing as users look for ways to get the benefits of ...

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 recently unveiled plenty of surprises regarding the upcoming launch of Windows 10. After announcing that Windows 10 would unite phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops under a single OS, it ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Simplewall offers a powerful alternative. It’s a 2MB download that transforms your PC from a leaky sieve into a digital ...

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...

There are a growing number of ways to quickly and easily sideload Android apps on Windows 11. Shortly after writing about WSATools, the first Android app sideloader to hit the Microsoft Store, I ...

Money may not grow on trees, but it does grow in GitHub repos. Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the ...