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[Timeline](https://github.com/sirredbeard/microsoft-opensource#timeline)\n* [Known Open Source Collaborations](https://github.com/sirredbeard/microsoft-opensource#known-open-source-collaborations)\n* [Select Open Source Projects](https://github.com/sirredbeard/microsoft-opensource#select-open-source-projects)\n* [More Open Source at Microsoft](https://github.com/sirredbeard/microsoft-opensource#more-open-source-at-microsoft)\n* [Historic Contributions](https://github.com/sirredbeard/microsoft-opensource#historic-open-source-contributions)\n\nThis project is not endorsed by Microsoft or any company or project mentioned here.\n\nThis listing could not possibly be complete, so please open PRs with any additions.\n\n## Timeline\n\n\n* Microsoft begins experimenting with 'shared source', including SSCLI, the core of .NET\n\n### 2004\n\n* WiX, the first project from Microsoft under an OSI approved license, is released\n* Begins cross-licensing software patents with Linux vendors\n\n### 2005\n\n* F# released under the Apache 2.0 license\n\n### 2006\n\n* CodePlex announced\n* Ports PHP to Windows, upstreams code under PHP license\n* Partners with Novell to improve open source interoperability\n\n### 2007\n\n* Open Source Initiative approves the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) and Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL)\n* Provides access to Windows NT kernel source for research to universities\n* Open sources IronRuby and IronPython under Microsoft Public License\n* Open sources xunit under Microsoft Public License\n* Reaches agreement with EU to reduce costs of licensing patents and specifications\n* Scheduled to exit US DOJ antitrust oversight, voluntarily agrees to extended oversight\n\n### 2008\n\n* Forms Open Web Foundation with Google, Facebook, Sun, IBM, Apache, and others\n* Joins Apache Software Foundation\n* Releases source for Singularity, an experimental OS to CodePlex\n* Begins distributing the open source jQuery JavaScript library with Visual Studio\n* Acquires Powerset, it's first open source acquisition, upstreams code from HBase to Apache Hadoop\n* [Open sources](https://web.archive.org/web/20110702223926/http://codebetter.com/glennblock/2008/10/02/mef-going-ms-pl-the-little-engine-that-could/) Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) under Microsoft Public License, one of the first bits of the .NET framework to be open sourced\n\n### 2009\n\n* Begins contributing to Linux kernel\n* Forms independent CodePlex Foundation, later known as Outercurve Foundation to promote open source\n* Open sources ASP.NET MVC under the Microsoft Public License\n* Apologizes after download is found to have GPL code, properly open sources download\n* Promises not to enforce patents against open source implementations of C#, e.g. Mono\n* Settles a dispute with TomTom over FAT32 software patents, avoiding further conflict with open source\n* Reaches agreement with EU to provide users a choice of web browsers on Windows installation\n* Platform Strategy Group begins an internal push for embracing open source\n* \"Burning the Ships: Transforming Your Company's Culture Through Intellectual Property Strategy\" is published on Microsoft's embrace of open collaboration\n* 📺 [Microsoft's Ray Ozzie on IP and Open Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNmGd9lT9I)\n* 📰 \"Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?\" [InfoWorld](https://www.infoworld.com/article/2631997/has-microsoft-lost-its-war-on-open-source-.html)\n\n### 2010\n\n* Signs Joomla! Contributor Agreement and upstreams improvements\n* Relicenses IronRuby and IronPython under Apache 2.0\n* 📰 \"Microsoft: 'We love open source'\" [Network World](https://www.networkworld.com/article/2216878/microsoft---we-love-open-source-.html)\n* 📺[OpenSource \u0026 Microsoft: Beyond Interoperability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYioK5hBwdY)\n* MEF is incorporated into Mono\n\n### 2011\n\n* Acquires Skype, maintains Linux client\n* Begins contributing code to Samba\n* Exits antitrust oversight by US DOJ\n* Ports Node.js to Windows, upstreams code under Apache 2.0\n* \"Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source\" [Wired](https://www.wired.com/2011/10/microsoft-and-hadoop/)\n\n### 2012\n\n* Azure begins hosting Linux virtual machines\n* Codeplex supports git\n* Begins contributing to git and collaborates with GitHub on LibGit2\n* Ports Apache Hadoop to Windows, upstreams code under MIT \n* Open sources ASP.NET (including MVC, Razor Pages, and Web API) under Apache 2.0\n* Forms Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.\n* Releases TypeScript under Apache 2.0, first Microsoft project on GitHub\n* Canonical closes [Ubuntu bug #1](https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/05/31/mark-shuttleworth-closes-ubuntu-bug-1/)\n* 📺 [Microsoft, The Cloud and Open Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sunoAP8XKBY)\n* 📰 \"Microsoft opens up\" [O'Reily](http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/04/microsoft-open-source.html)\n\n### 2013\n\n* Steve Ballmer resigns\n* VM Depot announced, community-driven repository of Linux and BSD virtual machines for Azure\n* Microsoft challenges broad US warrant for overseas e-mails and helps create a new law improving e-mail privacy\n* Releases [Coding4Fun Toolkit](https://github.com/Coding4FunProjects/Coding4FunToolkit), a set of open source components for building Windows Phone applications\n* xunit transferred to Outercurve Foundation, relicensed under Apache 2.0\n* 📰 \"Microsoft's Open Source Company Is a Year Old. But What Is It?\" [Wired](https://www.wired.com/2013/04/microsoftopentech/)\n\n### 2014\n\n* Satya Nadella appointed CEO\n* The full .NET stack, Microsoft's flagship development toolkit, is open sourced and contributed to .NET Foundation\n* Creates official GitHub prescence\n* Implements AllJoyn support in Windows, contributes code upstream\n* Releases Wireless Display Adapter, Microsoft's first hardware device to use embedded Linux\n* Contributes to OpenJDK\n* 📺 \"Microsoft loves Linux.\" - [Satya Nadella](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hHr8ye2kE)\n* 📰 \"More open-source at Microsoft? You'd better believe it\" [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/20/microsoft-open-source/)\n\n### 2015\n\n* Visual Studio Code released, releases Linux build\n* Co-founds Node.js Foundation\n* Joins R Foundation\n* Forms Open Source Programs Office, tasked with enabling and normalizing open source across the company\n* Open sources Matter Center, Microsoft's legal practice management software\n* Open sources Chakra, legacy Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine, and releases a build of Node.js with ChakraCore replacing V8 as the JS engine\n* 📰 \"How Open Source Is Shaping Microsoft's Future\" [RedmondMag](https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/09/01/changing--dna.aspx)\n\n### 2016\n\n* Windows Subsystem for Linux announced in partnership with Canonical\n* Joins Linux Foundation\n* Joins Eclipse Foundation\n* Open sources PowerShell, releases Linux build\n* Begins porting Sysinternals to Linux\n* Acquires Xamarin, relicenses Mono under MIT\n* Acquires LinkedIn, maintains Apache Kafka\n* SQL Server released for Linux\n* Begins hosting Linux Foundation courses on edX\n* SONiC released, based on Debian GNU/Linux\n* Begins opening Reactors worldwide for use by entrepreneurs and open source communities\n* \"The company has become an enthusiastic supporter of Linux and of open source and a very active member of many important projects.\" - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation\n* 📺 [Open Source at Microsoft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hHr8ye2kE) at Thailand Developer Day 2016\n* 📰 \"Why Microsoft is turning into an open-source company\" [ZDNet](https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-is-turning-into-an-open-source-company/)\n\n### 2017\n\n* Satya Nadella releases \"Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone\" describing his vision for an open and collaborative Microsoft\n* Joins Open Source Initiative\n* Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation\n* Joins MariaDB Foundation\n* Acquires Deis\n* Open sources Git Virtual File System (GVFS), the work done moving Windows to git\n* Opens Microsoft Store to open source applications\n* Better privacy controls, privacy dashboard, and diagnostic data transparency introduced in Windows\n* Announces Linux development with C++ in Visual Studio\n* Gives keynote at Open Source Summit North America\n* Moves Windows development to git\n* Microsoft shuts down CodePlex ([announcement](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/shutting-down-codeplex/))\n* 📺 [Microsoft Loves Open Source: Becoming The Largest Contributor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu80xXwFY0) at GitHub Universe 2017\n* 📰 \"How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source\" [The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-shifting-emphasis-open-source/)\n\n### 2018\n\n* Joins Open Innovation Network, cross-licenses 60,000 patents with open source community\n* Acquires GitHub\n* \"We are all in on open source.\" - Satya Nadella\n* GitHub Actions is released, providing free CI/CD for open source projects\n* Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 announced powered by Linux kernel\n* Begins using Citus and PostgreSQL on Ubuntu to analyze telemetry from Windows test builds on employee devices\n* PowerShell released as a snap\n* OpenSSH included in Windows\n* Provides official Ubuntu desktop images in Hyper-V on Windows\n* Beings collaborating with Canonical on cloudinit\n* Shifts their mobile application strategy to Android, begins contributing to Android developer ecosystem\n* Windows Calculator released as open source\n* Windows' File Manager `winfile` from Windows 3.0 released as open source based on the source code from Windows NT4\n* 📺 [Building an Open Source Software Culture at Microsoft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOHJf97uQU) at Open Source Summit Europe\n* 📰 \"Microsoft may be the world's largest open source contributor\" [TechRepublic](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-may-be-the-worlds-largest-open-source-contributor-but-developers-dont-yet-care/)\n\n### 2019\n\n* Visual Studio Code released as a snap\n* GitHub announces GitHub Sponsors, lowers prices\n* Edge browser released based on open source Chromium\n* Linux surpasses Windows usage on Azure\n* Begins adopting open source-style collaboration internally\n* Teams released for Linux\n* Acquires Citus Data, maintains open source project\n* Joins OpenChain\n* Admitted to Linux-distros security mailing list\n* Creates Open Application Model with Alibaba Cloud as a Open Web Foundation project\n* Creates Kubernetes-based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) with Red Hat as an application autoscaler for Kubernetes\n* Releases new Windows Terminal and PowerToys as open source\n* Published exFAT as open specification, contributes patents to OIN, and upstreams driver to Linux kernel\n* Stores all public GitHub repos for 1,000 years in Svalbard, Norway\n* Joins Unified Patents Open Source Zone to defend open source from patent trolls\n* Announces Android-based smartphone, Surface Duo, with a Linux kernel\n* Announces Microsoft Defender for Linux\n* Open sources SPTAG, a crucial search algorithm used by Microsoft \n* Open sources SandDance, a data visualization tool\n* Open sources the Microsoft C++ Standard Library\n* Open sources Interpret ML\n* Open sources Quantum Development Kit, a quantum computing SDK\n* Satya Nadella speaks at Red Hat Summit\n* Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft, states \"we should not maintain a burning grudge over actions that ended years ago\"\n* Linus Torvalds quoted at Linux Plumbers Conference as saying Microsoft \"have changed\"\n* JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation merge to form OpenJS Foundation, Microsoft contributes Electron to OpenJS Foundation\n* 📺 Scott Hanselman gives [keynote at NDC London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUN1j9G1Py8) laying out Microsoft's open source vision\n* 📰 \"Microsoft: The open source company\" [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/microsoft-the-open-source-company/)\n\n### 2020\n\n* Acquires npm, the Node package manager\n* Hosts WSLConf, the first conference dedicated to WSL\n* Microsoft president Brad Smith admits Microsoft was wrong about open source\n* Microsoft Edge browser on Linux seen at Microsoft Build\n* Push improvements to Chromium upstream\n* Releases open source Windows Package Manager '[winget](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli)'\n* Releases [.NET for Apache Spark](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-version-1-0-of-net-for-apache-spark/)\n* Open sources a dataset to help fight COVID-19-related cybersecurity threats\n* Open sources Java extension for SQL Server\n* Open sources MSQuic, a Windows NT kernel library for QUIC\n* Open sources Petridish, a neural architecture search algorithm for deep learning\n* Open sources Project Rocket, a software stack to perform live video analysis by AI/ML\n* Open sources Project Bonsai, a machine teaching service\n* Open sources Application Inspector, cross-platform source code security analyzer\n* Open sources TensorWatch, a debugging tool for AI and deep learning\n* Open sources Project Verona, a memory-safe research language\n* Open sources CLon12 and GLon12 projects, providing OpenCL and OpenGL support on Windows, based on the Mesa project\n* Collaborates with Tigera to open source [Calico for Windows](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/09/22/calico-for-windows-goes-open-source/), enabling Windows container network policy support\n* Open sources [ONNX Runtime](https://microsoft.github.io/onnxruntime/), a cross-platform machine learning runtime used by Office 365, Visual Studio, and Bing\n* Open sources [Akri](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/10/20/announcing-akri-open-source-project-building-connected-edge-kubernetes/), a project that extends Kubernetes to leaf devices\n* Open sources [Fluid Framework](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blogs/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/), a set of libraries for enabling low-latency collaborative data sharing\n* Open sources [Project OneFuzz](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/09/15/microsoft-onefuzz-framework-open-source-developer-tool-fix-bugs/), an open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale\n* Open sources [SmartNoise Platform](https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai-for-business/differential-privacy/), powered by [OpenDP](https://github.com/opendifferentialprivacy/), which safeguards the privacy of individuals while making useful data available for research\n* Open sources [ION](https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion), a public permissionless decentralized network identifier based on blockchain\n* Upstreams improvements to Mesa's core support for OpenCL and SPIR-V\n* Upstreams open source improvements to QNNX natural language model\n* Releases [Microsoft Edge for Linux](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/20/microsoft-edge-dev-linux/) in developer preview\n* Publishes [CBL-Delridge](https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/cbl-d/), a custom Debian derivative for internal use\n* Publishes [CBL-Mariner](https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner), a custom Linux From Scratch-style distribution powered by rpm packages for internal use\n* Linux-based [Azure Sphere OS](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sphere-s-customized-linux-based-os/) released for connecting devices to the Azure Sphere Security Service\n* [Participates extensively](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item\u0026px=Microsoft-XDC-2020) at the X.Org Conference, XDC\n* Launches Project Freta, a cloud-based service that provides automated full-system volatile memory inspection of Linux systems\n* Partners with Canonical to provide Ubuntu Pro and Charmed Kubernetes on Azure Arc\n* Announces Python for Excel\n* Kubernetes-based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) joins CNCF as a sandbox project ([announcement](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/04/06/kubernetes-event-driven-autoscaling-keda-cncf-sandbox-project/))\n* Ad features Ubuntu on Surface Book 3\n* 📰 \"Microsoft’s romance with open source software is on display at Build 2020\" [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/microsofts-romance-with-open-source-software-on-display-at-build-2020/)\n\n### 2021\n* [Microsoft Edge for Linux reaches stable](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/10/microsoft-edge-for-linux-now-stable)\n* [Open sources Power Fx](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-fx-open-source-now-available/)\n* [Releases fully open source compute APIs for Intel GPUs on WSL](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/oneapi-l0-openvino-and-opencl-coming-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-for-intel-gpus/)\n* [Offers Azure credit for OSI-licensed projects](https://opensource.microsoft.com/azure-credits#credits-overview)\n* Open sources [ONNX Runtime Web](https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime), a Javascript library for running ONNX models on browsers and on Node.js.\n* Brings support for [eBPF to Windows](https://github.com/Microsoft/ebpf-for-windows)\n* Becomes a [Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/08/03/microsoft-expands-support-with-the-eclipse-foundation/).\n* Releases [Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/).\n* Releases [version 1.0 of open-source Dapr](https://github.com/dapr/dapr), a serverless event-driven runtime\n* Releases [version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/data/spark),  .NET bindings for Spark, a general-purpose distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets\n* Releases [WSLg](https://github.com/microsoft/wslg), GUI application support on WSL\n* [Joins the Rust Foundation](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/microsoft-joins-rust-foundation/).\n* Kubernetes-based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) graduates in the CNCF from Sandbox to an Incubation project ([announcement](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/08/18/keda-moves-from-the-cncf-sandbox-to-become-an-incubating-project/))\n* Announces Azure Container Apps, a serverless container service built on top of Kubernetes, KEDA, Envoy and Dapr ([announcement](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/introducing-azure-container-apps-a-serverless-container-service/ba-p/2867265?ocid=AID3042118))\n* Dapr joins CNCF as an Incubation project ([announcement](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/11/03/dapr-distributed-application-runtime-joins-cncf-incubator/))\n* Acquires Kinvolk, Berlin-based cloud native open source developer ([announcement](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk-to-accelerate-containeroptimized-innovation/))\n\n### 2022\n* [Open sources Microsoft 3D Movie Maker](https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker)\n\n## Known Open Source Collaborations\n\n* SUSE\n* Red Hat\n* Canonical\n* Collabora\n* IBM\n* Oracle\n* Google\n* Chef\n* Puppet\n* Redis Labs\n* Elastic\n* Samsung\n* Cloudera\n* Docker\n* Nokia\n* HashiCorp\n* PostgreSQL\n* Kali Linux\n* Whitewater Foundry\n* Allianz\n* React\n* Flutter\n* HashiCorp\n* Nvidia\n* BMW\n* Apache Cassandra\n* Apache Kafka\n* Apache Hadoop\n* Apache Spark\n* Linux Foundation\n* Cloud Native Computing Foundation\n* Eclipse Foundation\n* OpenDaylight\n* Open Container Initiative\n* R Consortium\n* F# Foundatoin\n* .NET Foundation\n* Open API Initiative\n* Confidential Computing Consortium\n* OpenChain\n* TODO Group\n* Open Source Initiative\n* Apache Software Foundation\n* iZootoo\n* StorSimple\n* Grafana\n* Tigera\n\n## Select Open Source Projects\n\n**The list below is incomplete.** opensource.microsoft.com current lists 1,155 open source projects at Microsoft and it would not be possible to curate them all here. Click here for access to find them all.\n\nHere is a list of *selected* projects:\n\n### Dev Tools\n\n* [Visual Studio Code](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/)\n* [ProcDump](https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux)\n* [ProcMon](https://github.com/Sysinternals/ProcMon-for-Linux)\n\n### .NET\n\n* [.NET Project](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/open-source)\n* [Roslyn](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn) - .NET Compiler\n* [MSBuild](https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild)\n\n### Web Dev Tools\n\n* [Playwright](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright) - Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API\n* [Blazor](https://github.com/dotnet/blazor)\n\n### AI/ML/Robotics\n\n* [Project Moab](https://github.com/microsoft/moab)\n* [TensorWatch](https://github.com/microsoft/tensorwatch) - A debugging and visualization tool designed for data science, deep learning and reinforcement learning\n* [Light Gradient Boosting Machine](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM)\n* [CNTK](https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK) - A unified deep learning toolkit \n* [AirSim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirSim) - Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity\n\n### Database\n\n* [Citus](https://github.com/citusdata/citus)\n* [Azure Data Studio](https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio)\n\n### Cloud\n\n* [Azure CLI](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli)\n* Azure Arc\n* Azure Databricks\n* Azure Linux virtual machines\n* Azure Linux containers\n* Azure-tuned Linux kernel\n* Azure Spring Cloud\n* Azure DevOps\n* Azure HDinsight\n* [Open Enclave SDK](https://github.com/openenclave/openenclave) - A hardware-agnostic open source library for developing applications that utilize hardware enclaves.\n\n### Games\n\n* [Allegiance](https://github.com/FreeAllegiance/Allegiance)\n* [Xbox Live Developer Tools](https://github.com/microsoft/xbox-live-developer-tools)\n\n### Windows\n\n* [Windows Terminal](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal)\n* [PowerToys](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)\n* [Windows Package Manager](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli)\n* [React Native for Windows](https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows)\n* [Rust/WinRT](https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs)\n\n### Other\n\n* [WorldWide Telescope](https://github.com/WorldWideTelescope) - A visualization environment that brings together imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes\n* [Project Mu](https://microsoft.github.io/mu/) - The UEFI core used in Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V\n* [Z3](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/z3-3/) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver from Microsoft Research\n\n### Programming Languages\n\n* [TypeScript](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript) - Programming language similar to JavaScript, among the most popular on GitHub\n* [Bosque](https://github.com/microsoft/BosqueLanguage) - An experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle\n* [Verona](https://github.com/microsoft/verona) - Research programming language for concurrent ownership\n* [SPTAG](https://github.com/microsoft/SPTAG) - A library for fast approximate nearest neighbor search\n* [P](https://github.com/p-org/P) - A language for asynchronous event-driven programming\n\n## More Open Source at Microsoft\n\n* [Organization page on GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft)\n* [Open Source Program Group](https://opensource.microsoft.com/)\n* [Open Source Partner Network](https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/community/open-source)\n* [Open Source Blog](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/)\n* [Command Line Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/)\n* [Request source code from Microsoft](https://thirdpartysource.microsoft.com/)\n* [Open Specification Promise](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/dev_center/ms-devcentlp/1c24c7c8-28b0-4ce1-a47d-95fe1ff504bc)\n\n## Historic Open Source Contributions\n\n* [Windows File Manager](https://github.com/microsoft/winfile)\n* [GW-BASIC](https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC)\n* [MS-DOS](https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos)\n\n\n-----\n\n- Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and/or other countries. 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