Intel has collaborated with Microsoft to integrate Intel® Neural Compressor into Olive, enabling developers to easily take advantage of model compression techniques in their deployment platform, including Intel processors and accelerators. Read more
ONNX Runtime is a high-performance cross-platform inference and training engine that can run a variety of machine learning models. ORT provides an easy-to-use experience for the AI developers to run models on multiple hardware and software platforms. Read more
Today, we are excited to announce the much-anticipated availability of the OSS Feathr 1.0. Read more
To celebrate FOSS Fund #25 we have invited all employees whose projects were not selected in past FOSS Fund to propose a project for a one-time $500.00 USD award. We expect this to result in over 50 projects receiving this microgrant for a total of $25,000 USD. Read more
Open source has forever changed software development for the better. It has allowed developers from around the world to connect, collaborate, and build tomorrow’s technology. Microsoft culturally adopted an open mindset under Satya Nadella and internally changed the way software was developed. Microsoft is continually learning how to be a better open-source partner and support Read more
Today, we are excited to announce an open-source project called Azure AD workload identity for Kubernetes. It leverages the public preview capability of Azure AD workload identity federation. With this project, developers can use native Kubernetes concepts of service accounts and federation to access Azure AD protected resources, such as Azure and Microsoft Graph, without needing Read more
“Tech companies born with an open source mentality get it. It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable and, ultimately, achievable. We must learn to build on the ideas of others”—Satya Nadella Whenever I teach open source at Microsoft, I open with this quote from Satya. Whether new to Microsoft, or learning Read more
Open source software is an integral part of development at Microsoft, aligned with our goal to empower all developers to be successful building any application, using any language, on any platform. We are committed to building open, flexible technology and working with the open source community to grow together as an industry. Today we’re excited Read more
At Microsoft, our goal is to empower all developers to be successful building any application, using any language, on any platform. To do so, we are committed to building open, flexible technology, and to working together with the open source community to grow together as an industry. Microsoft has worked with the Eclipse community for Read more
Today we’ve announced the release of Dapr v1.0. The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) is now available as a production ready solution that helps developers build resilient, portable event-driven distributed applications on the cloud and edge. It has been an incredible journey bringing Dapr from its initial release in October 2019 to production readiness and it Read more
Today we’re excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners as founding members of the Rust Foundation, a new independent organization established to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem and support Rust’s maintainers. We look forward to collaborating with the Rust community to continue improving the Rust language, providing tooling and library support, Read more
We hear about open source projects every day, but we rarely hear from the people who maintain them. Maintaining an open source project is a full-time, often thankless, job. The Maintainers Spotlight blog series is an opportunity to highlight the essential role maintainers play in moving projects and communities forward. In true open source fashion, Read more
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