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For those of you still not in the know, Microsoft has moved towards an open source model with their launch of the CodePlex. Our friend Neng Giin pointed out that Microsoft views community development as a mutually beneficial effort, and is, in its own way, supporting the growth of a community of developers.

Of course, many of you have already downloaded Windows and Linux applications off SourceForge. If you take a look at the interface for downloading applications and source code via CodePlex, you’ll see many similarities there with the SourceForge …

April 6:
Microsoft Codeplex
Yap Neng Giin
TR6/SOC1
7pm-8pm
Ever wonder what Microsoft is doing in the way of an open source project? Yes, Microsoft does open source too. It’s called CodePlex, and hosts thousands of open source projects in .NET, C# and Sharepoint, among other Microsoft languages. The community may be relatively new, but it’s thrown up quite a few interesting projects like the Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager and My Web Pages Starter Kit – look them up at http://www.codeplex.com, or sign up to join the community!
We’ve invited Microsoftie Yap Neng Giin – …