Microsoft on Wednesday will take a significant step toward expanding the appeal of its .Net software plan by linking to Apache, one of the most important open-source software projects. The software ...

This week, the software giant unveiled the Microsoft Business Framework, a set of development tools, classes and runtime files that sit on top of the .Net Framework and let developers extend solutions ...

The software giant plans to extend .Net to the popular Apache Web server, which could give Microsoft access to a far larger audience of software developers. Apache is used by more than half of all ...