This week on FLOSSWeekly, Jonathan Morris discusses Microsoft’s recent trend of making large donations to the open-source community with two of his guests; Ben Meadors, a backend engineer for a grocery delivery start-up who spends much of his free time keeping vintage consoles alive through open-source software, and Rob Campbell, a developer who specialises in platform accessibility who most recently worked on the new Microsoft Edge browser.
Along with chatting about the ramifications of this sudden influx of new open-source projects, Rob discusses some of the new features in the Edge Chromium browser, with special emphasis on how the team is working to make the browser better for assistive technology users.
Also discussed is the recent news about the Copilot/CodeStream AI-powered code generation service, and how the team decided to release the underlying systems as open-source.
