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Expect to see more Microsoft source

...lifeblood of any operating system. So in spring 2001 Microsoft created its Shared Source Initiative giving governments, universities and large corporates unprecedented but still tightly... Read more

20 September, 2004 by Leader

Microsoft may open Office door

...source code underlying its Office software and other applications. The company's Shared Source Initiative, launched nearly three years ago, allows business customers, governments, business... Read more

19 January, 2004 by Mike Ricciuti

Microsoft: We'll open up more source code

As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft, Jason Matusow is responsible for coordinating Microsoft' global... Read more

18 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

Why Microsoft would secretly love it if its shared source initiative failed

...to Windows source code you'll most likely get it. Under the Shared Source Initiative big business, universities and assorted third parties have been offered... Read more

19 September, 2002 by silicon.com staff

Microsoft opens up Windows tools

...them. "This is hardly something that is brand-new," said Jason Matusow, shared source initiative manager at Microsoft. "There was some concern that we weren... Read more

14 May, 2004 by Ina Fried
Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

...years, Microsoft has offered limited access to Windows source code under its Shared Source Initiative, in particular to the education and government sectors, which will... Read more

22 February, 2008 by Peter Judge

New Windows Embedded 'raises the bar for Linux'

...Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told ZDNet UK that the new "shared source" initiative was in itself the division's "most significant announcement for... Read more

1 November, 2006 by David Meyer

Microsoft: Getting to grips with open source

...attempts at creating an open source-like community of developers is the Shared Source Initiative. This effectively supports a series of programmes that provides licences... Read more

20 July, 2006 by Miya Knight

Open source community wooed by Microsoft

...shared source licences for some of our products as well." Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative covers a range of programmes. Some of these licences allow... Read more

29 June, 2006 by Miya Knight

Windows CE 6 released to beta

...access millions of lines of Windows CE source code under Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative. Developers and device makers have the right to modify and... Read more

11 May, 2006 by Aaron Tan

Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme

...an effort to work better with third parties. On the company's Shared Source Initiative Web site, Microsoft on Tuesday posted details of three new... Read more

19 October, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

Microsoft keeps its open source enemies close

...experiments in co-opting aspects of the open-source model, including the Shared Source initiative, which now has 20-odd programs and 1.5 million... Read more

30 June, 2005 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft meets Red Hat

...s chief technology officer at the time, Michael Tiemann, disparaged Microsoft's shared-source initiative, which aims to emulate some of the principles of the... Read more

11 May, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Governments get access to Office source code

...access to Windows source code, said Jason Matusow, director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, the wider programme by which Microsoft allows selective access to... Read more

20 September, 2004 by David Becker

CA looks to open source

...the open-source world to improve its developer relations programs and its Shared Source Initiative. One big reason for the trend is cost: companies can... Read more

6 May, 2004 by Mike Ricciuti

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