eWeek has a slideshow of Microsoft's top 25 open source projects.
With a bid underway to obtain the blessing of the Open Source Initiative for two of its software licenses, Microsoft is working to burnish its open source credentials. Here are the 25 most active projects, as of August 21, on Microsoft's CodePlex open source project hosting Web site, along with the licenses under which the projects have been released.
Let me ask you this, what would likely happen if Microsoft opened up Windows Vista? Do you think open source developers would pitch in to improve Vista or would they gut the code and start building a new Windows operating system from scratch?
I ask the above question because after three months of using Windows Vista I'm about to give up. I haven't been this frustrated since Windows ME and I'm now counting the years instead of months before I'm comfortable enough to deploy Vista in the office. At home, I'm ready to buy my wife a Mac (something I said I would never do) and convert my own Dell E520 into a Linux box.
I am not an anti-Microsoft person but make no mistake I'm anti-Vista all the way. I know I'm not the only one about ready to give up on Vista and many of us will likely give Microsoft a chance to put things right with Vista's first service pack. However, if the Vista operating system is still buggy after its service pack, this long time Windows user will be saying adiós Microsoft.