Microsoft recently announced that its MS Open Tech subsidiary that focuses on technology ανοικτού κώδικα, θα διαλυθεί και θα ενσωματωθεί και πάλι στην κύρια company, with a mission to make open source more accessible to the company's software source code.
Jean Paoli, president of MS Open Tech, unveiled the news in one Publication on the blog of MS Open Tech. The publication states that developers working for Microsoft participate in approximately open source 2.000 projects in GitHub and CodePlex.
Three years ago when MS Open Tech was founded, open source was almost an unexplored world for Microsoft, but its founding helped the company to move on quickly and link it to open communities around the world.
"Eventually we came closer to open source communities"
“MS Open Tech projects have made it easier for Linux, Java developers to use Azure, through tools plug-ins SDK, and integration with technologies such as Chef, Puppet, and Docker. We created APIs for Microsoft services for iOS and Android,” Paoli said.
"We have contributed to open source projects, such as Apache Cordova, Cocos2d-x, OpenJDK, and dash.js. We brought Office 365 to the Moodle learning platform. And we've helped connect the Open Web to the industry through HTML5, HTTP / 2, and WebRTC / ORTC. "
So starting today since MS Open Tech developers will no longer belong to an autonomous subsidiary, they will provide tools and services to Microsoft technicians directly, thus enabling a streamlined procedure continuous investment and focus on open source projects.
Today's news comes amid reports that want Microsoft to seriously consider converting Windows to open source software sometime in the future. It is a decision that could serve as a living proof that "the culture of open development shapes the technology built on Microsoft," Paoli said in a statement.
But the decision to move Windows into open source is not that simple and we will not see it very soon.
The positive thing is that Microsoft seems to think positively about the argument and is looking for ways to adapt its business model to the open-source community that seems to be changing and evolving around the world.
