Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

China has signed up for Microsoft’s new Government Security Program (GSP), giving the Chinese government access to the source code of Microsoft’s Windows operating system software, Microsoft said ...

Microsoft warned Friday that the Russian government hackers it had blamed for hacking its executives’ email last month have been leveraging what they stole to try to break into customers’ computer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The hackers behind the worst intrusion of U.S. government agencies in years won access to Microsoft’s secret source code for authenticating customers, potentially aiding one ...

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 ...

If you feel like cracking into nearly 20-year-old operating systems for what we'll describe as "various and sundry" reasons, the source code for both Windows XP and ...