It's a radical departure, this news from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) that openness between its products and the rest of the universe is more than a hollow platitude. To take Microsoft at its Word, given ...

LaTeX or Word? For physicists and mathematicians, the choice is obvious. But for scientists in other fields the merits of LaTeX have largely gone unnoticed. The open-source software system — used to ...

I didn’t expect a tiny open-source Windows app to make such a difference, but this one has saved me hours of typing every week.

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...

If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

No one is quite sure how to define fire, but everyone knows what is it. Open source software is the same. Like fire, we know what open source does, we know what open source looks like, and we know it ...