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Sick of Microsoft and Google? This stealthy EU office suite is the private open-source swap you need

European Union institutions are actively replacing Big Tech office tools with open-source alternatives built to keep data on European soil, and a German-backed collaboration suite called openDesk has ...

Sick of Microsoft and Google? This new European office suite is a private, open-source alternative

Sick of Microsoft and Google? This new European office suite is a private, open-source alternative ...

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...
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Microsoft has released a new open-source library OS, but it's not for you

Microsoft open-sourced LiteBox, a library OS that sandboxes and shrinks the host attack surface. Uses North/South interfaces to translate app calls to the OS when bundled with apps. Not a consumer OS ...
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LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in." ...

4 open-source apps I install on every Windows PC

His specialties include everything from Apple, Android, and Windows devices through to wearables, gaming, audio gear, EVs, ...
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Microsoft makes classic Zork text-based adventure game series open source

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...