Microsoft is making .NET Core open source, cross-platform
Most of you are old enough to remember when you would never use the word Linux in the same sentence as Microsoft without a middle word such as versus. How times have changed. Microsoft's announcement on Wednesday indicates a corporation smart and agile enough to adjust its views. Microsoft, talking about its developer tools and services, said it was open-sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on Linux and Mac OS platforms. The move is said to be an effort to broaden Microsoft's reach beyond Windows developers, making .Net a cross-platform framework. "With billions of devices in the market today, developers need tools that target many different form factors and platforms," said S. Somasegar, the company corporate vice president, developer division.