MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in two weeks. Microsoft made the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) ...

Microsoft Corp. last week announced that its Windows source-code sharing initiative is being extended to some 150 systems integrators in more than 30 countries. A Microsoft spokesman said feedback ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

Microsoft has simplified its program for sharing source code in an effort to work better with third parties. On the company's Shared Source Initiative Web site, Microsoft on Tuesday posted details of ...

"As a partner, we are concerned if Microsoft's corporate intellectual property has been leaked to the Internet and gets into the wrong hands," said Ken Winell, president of Econium, a solution ...

The Microsoft Corporation is attempting to win the minds of academic researchers and college-age programmers by offering universities more than a million lines of source code derived from some of the ...

Microsoft this week provided an update on the "Midnight Blizzard" purported nation-state attack that had compromised its corporate e-mails late last year. The update, authored by the Microsoft ...

Some Microsoft source code, specifically parts of Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000, was posted on the Internet for downloading from multiple peer-to-peer networks over the past couple of weeks. As usual, ...

Suspected Russian hackers were able to access source code repositories from Microsoft after stealing corporate emails from the company back in January. Microsoft today provided an update on its ...

Microsoft is also in serious talks to extend the Shared Source Initiative program to ISVs. In an interview with CRN, Microsoft Shared Source Product Manager Jason Matusow said expanding source code ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...