Microsoft has been working towards a more open direction. For example, Satya Nadella, the company's chief executive, Satrana della in the Windows 10 Preview conference that Microsoft likes Linux, which is not surprising, but for a company that sees Linux as a threat, it takes a lot of courage and boldness to make such a statement.
Yesterday, Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft would formally open the open-source. NET Framework, using the MIT protocol, which would allow it to run on Linux and OS X systems. Developers will be able to use the world's three largest operating systems. NET Framework. See http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSourceNETOnMacAndLinuxAndVisualStudioCommunity.aspx for details, which are more intuitive:
Visual Studio Community 2013 will be available to users for free, with all the scalability. That includes more than 5,000 extensions to Visual Studio. Finally, as with Windows 10 Preview, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 preview and. NET 2015 preview.
Mono boss Miguel de Icaza also posted a blog post on the event: Microsoft open Sources. NET and Mono, the next plan for the mono team is to integrate. NET open source code into Mono. This weekend the Mono project will update the whole plan and wait for the good news for the weekend.
Microsoft Open. NET Framework source code and Mono