3:10 pm ET update: We've added details on features that 3D Movie Maker aficionados can expect now that the app has been open-sourced. The code was released not because Microsoft has grand plans for 3D ...

Microsoft has open sourced the code for the 27-year-old program 3D Movie Maker — and it's all thanks to someone who asked on Twitter. Foone, whose Twitter profile says they're a "hardware and software ...

Foone, a self-described "hardware/software necromancer" and chaotic keyboard maker, convinced Microsoft to release the source code for 3D Movie Maker—apparently, all we needed to do was ask. The ...

After some poking and prodding, Microsoft has finally open-sourced its 1995 3D animation creation tool Microsoft 3D Movie Maker. At the time, wherein such animated classics as Ghost in the Shell, ...