In a surprise move at the Build 2018 conference, Microsoft have announced that three key components of the Windows user interface are now open-sourced. Kevin Gallo, MS VP for the Windows Developer Platform sums it up in a blog entry.
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018
The newly opened-up components are critical for writing desktop applications and have so far been Windows-only. Based on C# and the .NET framework, especially WPF is generally considered to be reasonably good. Interest from beyond the Windows ecosystem might appear: when will we see ports to the Linux and Mac platforms, and what would it mean to their platform-specific toolkits GTK and Cocoa?
WPF = Windows Presentation Foundation
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday December 05 2018, @10:09PM (1 child)
Are they looking for help for when they move to MS Linux?
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(Score: 1) by DECbot on Thursday December 06 2018, @09:18PM
No, MS will likely just buy Canonical or buy Red Hat after IBM ruins the culture, breaks the profit model and needs some quick cash.
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