Project Mono, an independent effort to create an open source version of the Microsoft .Net Framework, expects to release version 1.0 of its software this year, probably in the fourth quarter. The ...

It's a big day for Microsoft and its (soon to be even larger) cadre of dedicated developers: Starting today, Microsoft is making the core parts of its .Net framework open-source, and cross-platform on ...

Microsoft is delivering feature-complete release candidates of .Net Core 5 and the ASP.Net 5 Web framework for Linux, Windows, and OS X Developers can start using Microsoft’s open source .Net Core ...

The open source effort to create a freely-available version of Microsoft Corp.’s .Net development environment is set to take a leap forward Wednesday, when developers from the effort known as the Mono ...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last month said, "Microsoft loves Linux" and pointed to the fact that 20 percent of its Azure cloud is already running the open source popular platform, he apparently ...

The best way to get Microsoft’s .Net Framework for Web services onto non-Microsoft platforms is for someone other than Microsoft to do it. That realization spawned the open-source effort Project Mono, ...