Neowin News Feed for: Oss

German state finally ditches Outlook, now dumping Office

Usama Jawad — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:08:01 +0000

A German state has successfully dropped Exchange Server and Outlook in favor of open-source alternatives like Mozilla Thunderbird. It plans to dump SharePoint and Microsoft Office next. Read more...

Intel exec not happy with nature of current open-source investments

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:14:02 +0000

It seems that Intel will be scaling back on its open-source initiatives after an executive expressed dissatisfaction at the current state of affairs. Read more...

LibreOffice improves interoperability with Microsoft Office files

Usama Jawad — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:40:01 +0000

LibreOffice's latest version has enhanced compatibility and interoperability with Microsoft Office files. Read more...

Llama Fund is a controversial platform to crowdfund AI models

Usama Jawad — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:16:01 +0000

Someone has started a crowdfunding platform to finance LLMs which will eventually be released as open-source models, and it sounds like a terrible idea on paper. Read more...

Google Project Zero exposes security flaw in libxslt library used in GNOME applications

Usama Jawad — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:36:01 +0000

Google's Project Zero team has publicly disclosed a UAF flaw in the popular libxslt library following GNOME's inability to fix it within 90 days of private reporting. Read more...

Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework

Taras Buria — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:44:01 +0000

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11's UI framework open-source, and it has shared details about this complex process. Read more...

Europe considers a massive fund to fix open source software's silent crisis

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:16:01 +0000

GitHub, and by extension, Microsoft, has proposed the establishment of a new fund to finance the continued development of widely-used open source software. Read more...

Class-action lawsuit filed against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot for software piracy

Usama Jawad — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:08:01 +0000

A programmer has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for their GitHub Copilot tool, alleging that it basically allows Microsoft to profit off of the work of others, without consent. Read more...

Google announces new Vulnerability Reward Program specifically for open source software

Usama Jawad — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:00:02 +0000

Google has revealed an expansion to its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP). It is designed to encourage privately reporting security flaws in open source software in exchange for monetary rewards. Read more...

Now official: Paid open-source apps are allowed in the Microsoft Store

Taras Buria — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:30:01 +0000

Following developer backlash after the latest Microsoft Store policy update, the company has reverted controversial changes and decided to allow selling apps based on open-source projects. Read more...

Microsoft opens-sources GODEL language model for realistic conversations

Usama Jawad — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing its latest GODEL conversational AI, which enables goal-oriented interactions while still providing external information, just like a real conversation. Read more...

Microsoft brings Linux XDP project to Windows

Usama Jawad — Wed, 25 May 2022 06:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has started work on XDP for Windows, which is based on a popular Linux project that enables low latency and high throughput for apps. The firm's implementation is open-source on GitHub. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 3D Movie Maker, leaked Outlook, and Defender troubles

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:16:02 +0000

In this week's recap of everything that happened in the Microsoft-verse, we have some juicy news items related to Windows 3D Movie Maker from 1995, a leaked Outlook client, and some Defender woes. Read more...

These are Microsoft's top 10 most popular open-source GitHub repositories

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 May 2022 17:16:01 +0000

How much do you know about the top open-source GitHub repositories developed and maintained by Microsoft? If you don't know a lot but would like to start with some basics, check out our new listicle! Read more...

Package Analysis Project: Google will help detect malicious open source packages

Usama Jawad — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:58:01 +0000

Google has pledged support for OpenSSF's Package Analysis Project for open source packages uploaded to popular repositories. It has also published the results which paint a rather interesting picture. Read more...

OpenSSF's Alpha-Omega Project to boost software supply chain security for 10,000 OSS projects

Fiza Ali — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:00:02 +0000

Google and Microsoft have invested $5 million in OpenSSF's Alpha-Omega Project, where Alpha will work on the most critical OSS projects and Omega will focus on the long tail of OSS projects. Read more...

TriggerMesh launches Integration Platform for Kubernetes

Fiza Ali — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:00:02 +0000

With the launch of TriggerMesh's open-source cloud-native Integration Platform, Kubernetes users can now effortlessly connect data and applications across multiple on-premises and clouds data centers. Read more...

Fedora 29 has been released just one week before 15-year anniversary

Paul Hill — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:28:01 +0000

The Fedora Project has released Fedora 29. The new upgrade comes with new software including GNOME 3.30. The project noted that the release comes almost 15 years after Fedora Core 1 was announced. Read more...

City of Rome begins making LibreOffice the default office suite on its workstations

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:28:01 +0000

The City of Rome has begun the switch to LibreOffice as default for its workers. The switch begins with those who don't need to use office programs for more than one hour per month. Read more...