Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source?

BrianFagioli writes When Microsoft Open Technologies was founded as a subsidiary of Microsoft — under Steve Ballmer's reign — many in the open source community hailed it as a major win, and it was. Today, however, the subsidiary is shutting down and being folded into Microsoft. While some will view this as a loss for open source, I disagree; Microsoft has evolved so much under Satya Nadella, that a separate subsidiary is simply no longer needed. Microsoft could easily be the world's biggest vendor of open source software, which is probably one reason some people don't like the term.

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Re:Open Tech is closing?

[Dutch Gun]

" shut down " in the "start" menu

They fixed that, didn't you hear? In Windows 8, the option to shut down the computer is now logically found under Settings.