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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by pnako on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:09PM (#23253872)
It's mostly templates, SDKs, etc.

MS is open-sourcing the pieces of cheese that lead to their proprietary cloud-shaped trap. I don't think they've open-sourced anything related to Azure itself (i.e. if I wanted to run my own Azure-like cloud).

I'm not saying it's a bad or even unethical strategy. I'm just saying that MS is not, remotely, an open-source company.

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by ToFab123 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:48PM (#23254366)
Service Fabric is open source. SF is basically what powers Azure and tons of other MS cloud based software like sql azure https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by Conan_Kudo on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:14PM (#23254494)
I would actually go so far as to say it is an unethical strategy. It's just a popular one. And a very successful one.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by colinmcdonald22 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:24PM (#23253963)
https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by nine_k on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:39PM (#23254315)
How about VSCode and .Net Core?
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by mcny on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:51PM (#23254383)
I work with asp.net web api and angular (typescript) but I think the point stands.

> Which of their former good selling products has microsoft open sourced?

Neither Visual Studio Code nor .NET core fits this criteria. Visual Studio IDE is not free and open source and neither is the older version of .NET framework.

Launch a .NET core application inside visual studio code. Even that comes with a warning saying you can only use the debugger within certain limited situations.

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