For more than 12 years now, the
.NET framework has been the
programming model for developers
who want to build apps for
Windows. But in its efforts to take
many of its developer tools cross-
platform, Microsoft today
announced that it plans to take .NET
to both the Mac and Linux soon and
that it is open-sourcing most of the
full server-side .NET core stack (not
client-side .NET), starting with the
next version.
As Microsoft’s corporate VP of its
Developer Division S. “Soma”
Somasegar told me, about 6 million
developers are now building
applications on top of the
framework. “We’ve been widely
successful with that,” he said. But
now the question is, how do you
move .NET forward? Microsoft
already open sourced the .NET
compiler earlier this year, so it’s not
new to this (even though many
pundits may still take a double-take
when they hear the words
“Microsoft” and “open source” in the
same sentence).
Looking at Microsoft’s recent history,
however, today’s announcement
doesn’t come as a total shock. At its
Build developer conference earlier
this year, for example, Microsoft
announced the .NET
Foundation and it’s that
organization that will also shepherd
this project.
READ MORE>>>http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform/

Does this mean asp.net will run under Apache?

Open source rocks!!! #TeamLinux #TeamOpenSource.

Microsoft is learning that.

Good for them and a great marketing strategy to get more developers using .NET

They have slowly and painfully realised that open source gathers more momentum and have actually made some systems necessary even on windows platform.

nice one ! I fink i like that .

Open source windows nt and watch the os world come to an end as we know it.