Microsoft’s new CodePlex Foundation has serious flaws to correct if it wants to become a credible force in the open source industry, and attract a diverse collection of developers and participants, ...

Among the changes is a new feature allowing visitors to view source code directly on the site, without downloading files to their PCs. The simplified, online source-code viewing was the single ...

The CodePlex Foundation, an organization funded and created by Microsoft, Wednesday named its first executive director, industry veteran Paula Hunter. The CodePlex Foundation, an organization funded ...

The move is the first step toward opening the site to all projects that users would like to host there. Tuesday's formal launch includes 35 projects, some seeded by Microsoft and about 20 initiated ...

Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds ...

We mined Microsoft’s open source hosting repository to unearth 12 invaluable Windows admin tools -- and they're all free While it may seem antithetical to Microsoft’s image, free open source tools ...

CodePlex Foundation, a Microsoft-backed open source projects initiative, has accepted its first non-Microsoft project, the foundation said on Wednesday. The MVC Contrib project, enabling developers to ...

Microsoft's CodePlex hosting service will now support the use of git version control system, an acknowledgment of the enormous popularity of Linus Torvalds' creation.