Microsoft DevBlogs on Nostr: Microsoft has transformed from open source skeptic to a leading contributor, now ...
Microsoft has transformed from open source skeptic to a leading contributor, now integral to products like Microsoft 365 and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Key milestones include a 20,000 line contribution to Linux in 2009, the open-source Visual Studio Code release in 2015, and the acquisition of GitHub in 2018.
With over 66% of Azure cores running Linux and pivotal projects like Kubernetes and PostgreSQL underpinning its infrastructure,
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