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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:46PM
It's not much use if one hand gives while the other hand takes away.
Remember we're talking about people who describe their own business practices as Embrace, extend, and extinguish. [wikipedia.org]