Microsoft Corporation’s MSFT vice president for Cloud Developer Services, Brian Harry announced in a blog post that the company will pull the plug on CodePlex, a website for code sharing and project ...

Microsoft cannot compete with GitHub. The company announced it will be closing the doors on CodePlex, its open-source project hosting site. CodePlex was designed to give developers a place to share, ...

Say goodbye to CodePlex. Microsoft just recently announced that it will be shutting down CodePlex, the eleven year-old open-source project hosting website. Microsoft has disabled the ability to create ...

Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company’s open source project-hosting service, will be closed down. Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based ...

The company acknowledges that GitHub is the go-to option for project hosting and will shutter CodePlex at the end of this year This December, Microsoft will shut down its CodePlex open source project ...

The CodePlex Foundation has announced the arrival of several new board members, including Jim Jagielski, the Chief Open Source Officer of SpringSource. Jagielski, who was one of the original ...

Successfully pulling code out of a big company can be like pulling the teeth off a lion, without anesthesia. CodePlex has published a draft of its process, a Project Acceptance Guideline, and is ...

Among the changes is a new feature allowing visitors to view source code directly on the site, without downloading files to their PCs. The simplified, online source-code viewing was the single ...

Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version-control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds ...