It's taken a few years but Microsoft has announced that it will make the source code for the majority of its .NET framework libraries available for download with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 later this year.
Initially the release will include the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows). Source code for more libraries such as WCF, Workflow, and LINQ will be added in later releases. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License...
Jon Galloway writes The 9 things Microsoft SHOULD be announcing next week at MIX07 (but won't). It's now less than a day to the 'big announcement' at MIX '07 and I'd love for a couple of these to become true - I can't see how Silverlight will be written for without an Express version of Blend for example and I'd never heard of Singularity before but want to know more now - but here's what else I'd hope to hear.
Microsoft is now a 64-bit only company
Some of you may already have surmised this from the fact...