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Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme
News Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative is a programme to allow third parties, such as other software companies and large customers, to see portions of Microsoft source code. As with other individuals and organisations, we too have seen the...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft: We'll open up more source code
News As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft, Jason Matusow is responsible for coordinating Microsoft' global source licensing strategy. All our platforms are in the Shared Source programme right now, and next we will be...
[September 18, 2002, 16:27]
Microsoft shows code to 'trusted users'
News The "shared source" programme already allows some governments and technology companies access to some Microsoft code. Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is expanding its programme that allows outsiders access to the company's source code.
[October 23, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft defends Windows CE code-share
News The programme now opens all the Windows CE source code, except for a small amount which Microsoft has licensed from elsewhere -- the first Microsoft shared-source programme to open the entire source code of a product, and the first to allow third...
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft tweaks 'shared source' for Windows CE
News In a highly touted announcement late on Wednesday, Microsoft expanded its existing "shared source" programme for Windows CE, its OS for "embedded" devices, which include everything from handheld computers to mobile phones to sewing machines.
[April 10, 2003, 8:20]
Governments get access to Office source code
News Governments have made wide use of 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 source code.
[September 20, 2004, 8:20]
Microsoft: Open source's best friend?
News Bill Hilf, a platform strategy technology manager at Microsoft, insisted there is no conflict between the goals of the company's open source lab and the NXT programme. In December, the software giant introduced a pilot programme called NXT to make...
[May 17, 2006, 11:00]
MS security chief: We are not stopping development
News Other projects have been received less warmly, like Microsoft's "Shared Source" programme, which is designed to emulate the success of open-source software at allowing customers to participate in fixing problems.
[February 15, 2002, 15:07]
Windows Forms to go open source?
Talkback Also, 'Microsoft's shared source programme' shouldn't be compared to Open Source. Likely the 'references to specific customers or inappropriate language' within the source code will be the most interesting parts to learn about.
[February 8, 2005, 15:43]
Microsoft contemplating 'sharing' source of SQL Server
News In an interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, Rizzo said that the company is thinking about including the forthcoming SQL Server 2005 in Microsoft's shared-source programme for disclosing product source code to customers.
[February 24, 2005, 15:15]
Windows Forms to go open source?
News Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft’s Shared Source programme, said there are many products being evaluated on a case-by-case basis for inclusion in the programme. Its shared source program addresses several products, including the Windows CE...
[February 8, 2005, 14:30]
Microsoft may open Office door
News An offshoot of the shared-source programme, called the Government Security Programme, makes source code available to 59 governments around the world, and to the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the European Community...
[January 19, 2004, 10:00]
Microsoft to share more knowledge
News The company also recently expanded its shared source programme to allow other companies that provide PC technical support to have access to some source code. Microsoft plans on Wednesday to announce a new programme for licensing some of its...
[December 3, 2003, 7:50]
Microsoft's open source mind shift
News But in the past two years, Microsoft has stepped up its Shared Source programme, in which it gives free access to source code under terms similar to those in popular open source licences. When Linux began to take hold in the late 1990s, company...
[September 15, 2006, 14:20]
Microsoft opens up more code
News Jason Matusow, director of Microsoft's shared-source programme, said the company will expand its open-source programs over time, but is moving slowly as it tries to learn how to participate in open-source communities.
[September 28, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft opens FAT file system
News The company also recently expanded its shared source programme to allow other companies that provide PC technical support to have access to some source code. Microsoft has had a limited programme for licensing its technology for some time.
[December 3, 2003, 17:30]
Microsoft faces the music at LinuxWorld
News Signing up for the shared source programme doesn't pose problems for open-source programmers, according to Taylor. Taylor also touted Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, in which the company lets outsiders see some underlying source code but does...
[January 23, 2004, 8:50]
Anger over EC medical data-sharing scheme
News Within the next few days, an initiative called the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) will be adopted as part of Framework 7, a massive drive by the EU to fund research and development, with e-health being a major beneficiary.
[January 26, 2007, 10:51]
More heavyweights join mobile Linux group
News The "Signature Accelerated Programme" is an extension of Orange's strategy around its Signature devices. That strategy dates back six years to the release of its first Windows Mobile SPV handset, but the new programme now also takes in the Series...
[February 11, 2008, 9:36]
Microsoft opens up Windows tools
News Microsoft has shared other, more substantive portions of its code, but typically under its more restrictive shared-source programme, which has allowed governments and others to see, but not alter, Microsoft code.
[May 14, 2004, 8:45]
