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can control any alljoyn aware internet of things iot device in the network 48 microsoft has been developing alljoyn support and contributing code upstream since 2014 16 microsoft opened the keynote speech at all things open in 2015 by stating that microsoft s approach to open today is enable integrate release and contribute mark russinovich cto of microsoft azure 49 in august 2015 microsoft released winobjc also known as windows bridge for ios an open source middleware toolkit that allows ios apps developed in objective c to be ported to windows 10 50 51 52 on november 18 2015 visual studio code was released under the proprietary microsoft license and a subset of its source code was posted to github under the mit license 53 the ten organizations with the most open source contributors on github in 2016 54 in january 2016 microsoft became gold sponsor of scale 14x the fourteenth annual southern california linux expo a major convention 55 when microsoft acquired xamarin and linkedin in 2016 it relicensed the mono framework under mit license and continued maintaining the kafka stream processing software platform as open source 16 also in 2016 microsoft introduced the windows subsystem for linux which lets linux applications run on the windows operating system the company invested in linux server technology and linux development to promote cross platform compatibility and collaboration with open source companies and communities culminating with microsoft s platinum sponsorship of the linux foundation and seat on its board of directors 56 microsoft released sql server and the now open source powershell for linux 16 also microsoft began porting sysinternals tools including procdump and procmon to linux 57 r tools for visual studio were released under apache license 2 0 in march 2016 in march 2016 ballmer changed his stance on linux saying that he supports his successor satya nadella s open source commitments he maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed 58 59 commentators have noted the adoption of open source and the change of strategy at microsoft 60 the company has become an enthusiastic supporter of linux and of open source and a very active member of many important projects jim zemlin executive director of the linux foundation 61 at eclipsecon in march 2016 microsoft announced that the company is joining the eclipse foundation as a solutions member 62 the bitfunnel search engine indexing algorithm and various components of the microsoft bing search engine were made open source by microsoft in 2016 63 64 vcpkg a cross platform open source package manager was released in september 2016 65 microsoft joined the open source initiative the cloud native computing foundation and the mariadb foundation in 2017 16 the open source initiative formerly a target of microsoft used the occasion of microsoft s sponsorship as a milestone for open source software s widespread acceptance the debian based sonic network operating system was open sourced by microsoft in 2017 66 also the same year the windows development was moved to git and microsoft open sourced the git virtual file system gvfs developed for that purpose 67 68 other contributions to git include a number of performance improvements useful when working with large repositories 69 70 microsoft opened the microsoft store to open source applications and gave the keynote speech at the open source summit north america 2017 in los angeles 16 in 2018 the microsoft cto of data spoke with zdnet about the growing importance of open source stating that we meet customers where they are and in particular if you want linux we ll give you linux if you want mysql well we ll give you mysql you want nosql well we ll give you nosql that means you need to be part of open source open source by nature is a community thing raghu ramakrishnan microsoft cto of data 71 microsoft became platinum sponsor and delivered the keynote of the 2018 southern california linux expo the largest community run open source and free software conference in north america 72 73 microsoft developed linux based operating systems for use with its azure cloud services azure cloud switch supports the azure infrastructure and is based on open source and proprietary technology and azure sphere powers internet of things devices as part of its announcement microsoft acknowledged linux s role in small devices where the full windows operating system would be unnecessary 73 nat friedman former ceo of microsoft s github subsidiary the largest host of source code in the world michelle noorali sr software engineer at microsoft and core maintainer on open source projects in the kubernetes ecosystem including helm speaking at linuxcon 2018 in china 74 noorali serves on the kubernetes steering committee 75 microsoft azure booth at linuxcon 2018 in beijing china also in 2018 microsoft acquired github the largest host for open source project infrastructure microsoft is among the site s most active contributors and the site hosts the source code for microsoft s visual studio code and net runtime system the company though has received some criticism for only providing limited returns to the linux community since the gpl license lets microsoft modify linux source code for internal use without sharing those changes 76 in 2018 microsoft included openssh tar and curl commands in windows 77 78 also microsoft released windows calculator as open source under mit license on github 79 since 2018 microsoft has been a sponsor of the adoptopenjdk project it is a drop in replacement for oracle s java jdk 80 in april 2018 microsoft released the windows 3 x windows nt file manager source code licensed under the mit license 81 82 in august 2018 microsoft added support for the open source python programming language to power bi 83 in october 2018 microsoft joined the open invention network 84 and cross licensed 60 000 patents with the open source community 85 86 in 2019 microsoft s windows subsystem for linux 2 transitioned from an emulated linux kernel to a full linux kernel within a virtual machine improving processor performance manifold in keeping with the gpl open source license microsoft will submit when citation needed its kernel improvements for accommodation into the master public release 87 also in 2019 microsoft released windows terminal powertoys and the microsoft c standard library as open source 16 and transitioned its edge browser to use the open source chromium as the basis 88 the windows console infrastructure was open sourced under the mit license alongside windows terminal 89 after publishing exfat as an open specification microsoft contributed the patents to the open invention network oin and started upstreaming the device driver to the linux kernel 16 at build 2019 microsoft announced that it is open sourcing its quantum development kit including its q compilers and simulators 90 in december 2019 microsoft released microsoft teams for linux this marked the first time microsoft released an office app for the linux operating system the app is available in native packages in deb and rpm formats 91 also in december 2019 after js foundation and node js foundation merged to form openjs foundation microsoft contributed the popular cross platform desktop application development tool electron to openjs foundation 92 93 2020s edit project verona a memory safe research programming language was open sourced in january 2020 94 95 microsoft released deepspeed an open source deep learning optimization library for pytorch in february 2020 96 in 2020 microsoft open sourced the java extension for microsoft sql server 16 msquic a windows nt kernel library for the quic general purpose transport layer network protocol 97 project petridish a neural architecture search algorithm for deep learning 98 and the fluid framework for building distributed real time collaborative web applications 99 microsoft also released the linux based azure sphere operating system 16 in march 2020 microsoft acquired npm the open source node package manager it is the world s largest software registry with more than 1 3 million packages that have 75 billion downloads a month 100 101 also in march 2020 microsoft together with researchers and leaders from the allen institute for ai the chan zuckerberg initiative the georgetown university s center for security and emerging technhology and the national library of medicine released cord 19 a public dataset of academic articles about covid 19 and research related to the covid 19 pandemic 102 the dataset is created through the use of text mining of the current research literature 103 104 after exploring different alternative options and talking with various well known commercial and open source package manager teams including chocolatey scoop ninite and others such as appget npackd and the powershell based oneget package manager manager microsoft decided to develop and release the open source windows package manager in 2020 105 microsoft was one of the silver sponsors for the x org developer s conference 2020 xdc2020 microsoft had multiple developers presenting on the opening day 106 microsoft completed the first phase of porting the java openjdk for windows 10 on arm devices in june 2020 80 in august 2020 microsoft became founding member of the open source security foundation openssf a cross industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security 107 108 in september 2020 microsoft released the surface duo an android based smartphone with a linux kernel 109 the same month microsoft released onefuzz a self hosted fuzzing as a service platform that automates the detection of software bugs 110 it supports windows and linux 111 microsoft is a major contributor to the chromium project with the highest percentage of all non google contributors coming from microsoft 35 2 the company has contributed 29 4 of all non google commits to the source code in 2020 112 cbl mariner a cloud infrastructure operating system based on linux and developed by the linux systems group at microsoft for its edge network services and as part of its microsoft azure cloud infrastructure was open sourced in 2020 113 114 in february 2021 microsoft made the source code for its extensible storage engine ese available on github under mit license 115 also in february 2021 microsoft together with four other founding companies aws huawei google and mozilla formed the rust foundation as an independent non profit organization to steward the open source rust programming language and ecosystem 116 117 in march 2021 microsoft became founding member of the new eclipse adoptium working group whose goal is to promote free open source java runtimes 118 microsoft released a preview of the microsoft build of openjdk in april 2021 it is available for x64 server and desktop editions of windows as well as on linux and macos the company provides long term support for this distribution of the openjdk 119 in april 2021 microsoft also released a windows 10 test build that includes the ability to run linux graphical user interface gui apps using windows subsystem for linux 2 120 in the following month microsoft launched an open source project to make the berkeley packet filter work on windows 121 at the windows 11 announcement event in june 2021 microsoft showcased the new windows subsystem for android wsa that will enable support for the android open source project aosp and will allow users to run android apps on their windows desktop 122 in august 2021 microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership to become a strategic member at the eclipse foundation 123 microsoft released the source code of 3d movie maker under the mit license in may 2022 124 125 following a request by the twitter user foone a month earlier 126 also in may microsoft joined the xdp community and released a new open source express data path interface for windows 127 128 in august 2022 microsoft open sourced more than 1 500 of its 3d emoji to let creators remix and customize them the library is available on figma and github 129 on may 18 2025 microsoft released microsoft edit an open source recreation of the ms dos editor written in the rust programming language for modern versions of windows 130 on november 20 2025 microsoft licensed the source code for zork i zork ii and zork iii under the mit license 131 support of open source organizations edit microsoft is either founding member joining member contributing member and or sponsor of a number of open source related organizations and initiatives examples include net foundation 132 alliance for open media 133 apache software foundation 16 bytecode alliance 134 cloud native computing foundation 135 codeplex foundation later known as outercurve foundation 16 confidential computing consortium 136 eclipse adoptium working group 137 eclipse foundation 138 f software foundation 139 hyperledger 140 linux foundation 16 mariadb foundation 16 node js foundation 16 open 3d foundation 141 openapi initiative 142 openbmc 143 openchain 144 open compute project 145 open connectivity foundation 146 open container initiative 147 open infrastructure foundation 148 open invention network 149 openjs foundation 150 open source initiative 16 open source security foundation 151 open web foundation 16 outreachy 152 r consortium 153 r foundation 16 rust foundation 154 the open group 155 unified patents open source zone 16 selected products edit net managed code software framework for windows linux and macos operating systems 56 net compiler platform roslyn compilers and code analysis apis for c and visual basic net programming languages net gadgeteer rapid prototyping standard for building small electronic devices net maui a cross platform ui toolkit net micro framework net framework platform for resource constrained devices 3d movie maker 3d movie maker a children s computer program developed by microsoft home s microsoft kids subsidiary for making films using 3d computer graphics airsim simulator for drones cars and other objects built as a platform for ai research allegiance multiplayer online game providing a mix of real time strategy and player piloted space combat gameplay asp net it is a web application framework developed for building dynamic web applications and services asp net ajax it is a set of extensions for asp net that enables developers to create asynchronous interactive web applications asp net core it is an open source cross platform framework developed for building modern web applications and services asp net mvc it is a web application framework which follows the model view controller mvc architectural pattern asp net razor it is a markup syntax used in asp net for creating web pages asp net web forms it is a web application framework that allows developers to build dynamic websites by utilizing a component based approach atom text and source code editor 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