CEO Ballmer described a company shift toward promoting open connections, data portability, standards and community engagement.
The funds will be offered to teams that can demonstrate IDE improvements.
The open source solution provider plans to offer a "comprehensive" SOA product.
The two companies are planning integration and marketing efforts.
A beta version conversion tool, starting with Microsoft Word, is expected at the end of June.
Colleges will get support from IBM on the use of some open programming tools.
Respondents said they are using a mixture of open source and proprietary solutions.
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.
Outsourcing firm initiates new service to support startups and others needing software engineering expertise.
Solution features querying power across both relational and XML stores.
Solution will facilitate deployments on Sun's OSes.
The latest version of Spring.NET, made generally available in December, is a major upgrade to the original port of the popular Spring Framework, a layered Java/J2EE application-programming model.
A new version of the enterprise service bus was released.
Companies combine forces to deliver one-stop open source enterprise solutions, combining Java-based middleware and Apache server solutions.
The company's latest reporting solution helps enterprises monitor large Web applications that need to scale.