I'm a big fan of Visual Studio Code — also commonly known as VS Code. I'm not a coder, but it's long been my writing tool of preference, above all others. One of VS Code's big pulls is that it's open ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Although the term "open source" didn’t arrive until the late 1990s, the principle has been around since programming really took off in the 50s and 60s. Early developers shared their code and protocol ...

From Tableau and Looker, to PowerBI and beyond, there is no shortage of business intelligence (BI) tools designed to help companies unlock insights from their vast swathes of data. But a newcomer has ...

Most IT staff and developers have no problem technically evaluating open source software. However, they often overlook other considerations that could mean success or failure of a production system.

A recent study found that more than a third of 1,261 open source libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted A study of how 31 popular open source code ...

The Notepad++ project is seeking the public's help in taking down a copycat website that closely impersonates Notepad++ but is not affiliated with the project. Although, at the time of writing, the ...