Microsoft has reached an important milestone bound to impact the future evolution of the .NET Micro Framework. Specifically, at the end of January 2010, the Redmond company launched the community development website for the framework. Developers that have kept up to date with the direction in which Microsoft is taking .NET Micro Framework already know that at the end of 2009, the company open sourced the technology. By making the .NET Micro Framework open source, the software giant is no longer solely responsible for its evolution, although the promise is that it will continue to remain involved.
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