Microsoft has gone Open Source

  The time has come ladies and gentleman, Microsoft has gone open source. Yes, that is right, you heard me right, the big blue beast has gone open source. Not true you say? Impossible you say? Lets look at some of the recent enhancements:

1. Codeplex ships, a site based completely on hosting open source projects.

2. jQuery comes under the umbrella of Microsoft (we are talking technical support and MSDN documentation as well! w00t!)

3. The web platform team ships a complete installer for everything from Drupal to Wordpress

1. Codeplex ships

Competing with Sourceforge, Codeplex goes live to host thousands of open source projects.

2. jQuery (the write less, kick more ass Javascript framework) goes to Microsoft under the MIT license.

  From the jQuery founder:

Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it with the use of jQuery. This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).

   If you read that right....then you are freaking out right now......jQuery INTELLISENSE. That is right, click, intellisense, click, intellisense, ship, done.

3. Web platform team unleashes the Open Source installer. It will install everything you need to create a complete open source content management environment. I will just show you pictures, it will be better to understand: