They fund the Core Infrastructure Initiative [1], OpenBSD [2] etc. They release free software themselves. [3]
[1] https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/
[2] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
[3] https://github.com/dotnet/core
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 3 | 12 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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3 sources> dotNET's openness does not extend to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms).
Are you kidding me?
https://github.com/dotnet/core
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In Disable Windows 10 TrackingTLDR ( VS 2015, .Net 4.6, TFS, ... );
.Net 4.6 -> HTTP/2 support and IIS 10 supports it ( Windows 10)
Milestone for .Net core ( will probably be released here : https://github.com/dotnet/core )
F# 4.0
Build vNext is in private beta, send a mail ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/04/29/visual-stu... )
Team Project Rename ( TFS )
Docker Support in Build Deploymenet ( i suppose TFS)
Better agile project management (kanban, ...) -- screenshot: https://i3-vso.sec.s-msft.com/dynimg/IC795776.png
For VS 2015 RC itselve, it's mostly an iteration on improving the Visual Studio ( previous version of Visual Studio was CTP 5)
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