Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)(opensource.microsoft.com)

69 points by GTP 5 months ago | 22 comments

Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary(opensource.microsoft.com)

9 points by hackthemack 5 months ago | 1 comments

Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free(opensource.microsoft.com)

179 points by yoshuaw 1 year ago | 65 comments

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source(blogs.windows.com)

1489 points by pentagrama 1 year ago | 1033 comments

Microsoft Windows Developer blog post announcing that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been released as open source.

Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework(neowin.net)

163 points by bundie 1 year ago | 183 comments

Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes(opensource.googleblog.com)

62 points by talatuyarer 1 year ago | 12 comments

Microsoft makes Zork open-source(opensource.microsoft.com)

575 points by tabletcorry 11 months ago | 219 comments

Microsoft Open Source blog post announcing the open-source release of the source code for the classic text adventure games Zork I, II, and III.

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux(brennan.io)

318 points by jandeboevrie 5 months ago | 108 comments

A blog post explaining how to play Space Cadet Pinball, the Windows XP game, on Linux via a reverse-engineered open-source port installable as a Flatpak.

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux(himthe.dev)

1633 points by bobsterlobster 9 months ago | 1288 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.