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In August 2021, Microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership to become a ''Strategic Member'' at the Eclipse Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-now-a-strategic-member-of-the-eclipse-foundation/|title=Microsoft is now a Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation|last=Jawad|first=Usama|date=3 August 2021|website=[[Neowin]]|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>

Microsoft released the source code of [[3D Movie Maker]] under the [[MIT License]] in May 2022,<ref>{{cite web |title=microsoft / Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker |url=https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker |website=Github |access-date=4 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite webCite tweet|last1last=Hanselman |first1first=Scott |user=shanselman|number=1521698902579159040|title='Hey friends - we've open sourced the code to 1995's Microsoft 3D Movie Maker …' |url=https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1521698902579159040 |website=Twitter |access-date=4 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> following a request by the [[Twitter]] user ''Foone'' a month earlier.<ref>{{cite webCite tweet|authoruser=Foone |number=1511808848729804803|title='hey @Microsoft give me the source code to 3D Movie Maker. …'You |url=https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1511808848729804803released |website=Twitterit |access-date=4in May1995 2022and |language=enI want to expand and extend it.}}</ref> Also in May, Microsoft joined the XDP community and released a new open-source [[Express Data Path]] interface for Windows.<ref name="neowin-2022-05-25">{{cite web|url=https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-brings-linux-xdp-project-to-windows/|title=Microsoft brings Linux XDP project to Windows|last=Jawad|first=Usama|date=25 May 2022|website=[[Neowin]]|access-date=26 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="cloud7-2022-05-25">{{cite web|url=https://cloud7.news/development/microsoft-introduced-open-source-xdp-for-windows/|title=Microsoft introduced open-source XDP for Windows|last=Yasar|first=Erdem|date=25 May 2022|website=[[cloud7]]|access-date=26 May 2022}}</ref>

In August 2022, Microsoft open sourced more than 1,500 of its 3D [[emoji]] to let creators remix and customize them. The library is available on [[Figma (software)|Figma]] and GitHub.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/10/23299527/microsoft-emoji-open-source-creators|title=Microsoft open sources its 3D emoji to let creators remix and customize them|last=Warren|first=Tom|date=10 August 2022|website=[[The Verge]]|access-date=14 August 2022}}</ref>