windows open source venture

Open Source and Microsoft are always considered distinct. Have you ever heard of Microsoft’s Open Source Avatar .CodePlex is one such initiative by MS, for the purpose of open source Projects hosting, in the lines of Sourgeforge.net.,Here one can upload ,download and optimize available projects. It is three year old Portal with more than 10,000 projects. Have 3,000,000 pings per month. It’s quite good ,may be you can try out an application .