Microsoft to use open source components with Windows Core OS

Information on a LinkedIn profile of a Microsoft employee suggests that the software company uses open source components with Windows Core OS, the upcoming modular base software for Windows versions.

The information on the profile page of a Security Program Manager at Microsoft was noticed by WalkingCat, who posted about Microsoft on Twitter. On his profile, the employee writes that he has helped to improve the security of Windows Core OS with, among other things, machine learning and that he has improved the security of Windows Open Source Components. The man was a program manager at Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group Information Security Team, Windows Core.

MSPoweruser concludes that Windows Core OS uses open source components, but that site is also unable to provide more details. Microsoft has started more and more open source projects in recent years and on a site the company lists which software it publishes on GitHub. Recently, Microsoft announced that it will base its Edge browser on the open source project Chromium.

Windows Core OS, or WCOS, appears to be becoming a modular foundation for various Windows versions, according to rumors of recent years. The software must run on all kinds of devices, whereby functionality can be added for each type of device. Win32 programs would then run virtualized.