From PC World: Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft.
All the “Microsoft loves Linux” talk can be a tad misleading. Microsoft definitely won’t be releasing a Linux desktop version of Microsoft Office any time soon, or porting the next Halo game to Linux and SteamOS. Microsoft’s love for Linux is all about developers. Developers can now use PowerShell on Linux, and run PowerShell scripts on Linux servers. Microsoft even provides its own Linux servers through the Azure cloud computing service.
But that exclusivity doesn’t make benefit to developers any less welcome. PowerShell was made possible because Microsoft open-sourced .NET Core back in 2014. Again, Microsoft just open-sourced the core—not any components that could make it easier to run graphical .NET apps on Linux, like WinForms.
Microsoft also recently open-sourced ChakraCore and released it for Linux, too. ChakraCore is the core part of the JavaScript engine used in Microsoft’s Edge web browser. Developers can embed the ChakraCore engine in their applications or use it as a server-side JavaScript engine with Node.js—and that all works on Linux servers, too. Even SQL Server is coming to Linux.
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