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posted by takyon on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the underworld-refrigeration dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday December 05 2018, @10:09PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday December 05 2018, @10:09PM (#770309) Journal

    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

    by DECbot (832) on Thursday December 06 2018, @09:18PM (#770858) Journal

    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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