Top Microsoft repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “microsoft”: 23 repositories with 646k stars between them, mostly written in C#, JavaScript and TypeScript. The highest-rated is massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts, #65 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

HeyPuter/everything

Open on GitHubJavaScript
  • Diamond IV
  • Best of Nov 2026 #10
  • New & Rising · Nov 2026
  • New & Rising · Oct 2026

We're rebuilding and open-sourcing the world’s software from scratch.

  • 1,951+3 Elo, change today
  • 8.4k stars
  • 920 forks
  • 88 watchers
git
git clone https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything.git
  • adobe
  • cad
  • microsoft
  • office

Axorax/awesome-free-apps

Open on GitHubJavaScript

Curated list of the best free apps for PC and mobile

  • 1,555+10 Elo, change today
  • 8k stars
  • 636 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps.git
  • android
  • awesome
  • awesome-list
  • free-apps

microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

Open on GitHubPython

AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

  • 1,531+9 Elo, change today
  • 6.5k stars
  • 1.1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit.git
  • agent-framework
  • ai-agents
  • ai-safety
  • compliance

abraunegg/onedrive

Open on GitHubD

OneDrive Client for Linux

  • 1,565+14 Elo, change today
  • 13k stars
  • 918 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive.git
  • business
  • linux
  • microsoft
  • office-365

microsoft/Detours

Open on GitHubC++

Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows. It is distributed in source code form.

  • 1,401+8 Elo, change today
  • 6.4k stars
  • 1.1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/Detours.git
  • hacktoberfest
  • microsoft

massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Open on GitHubBatchfile

Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.

  • 2,297+23 Elo, change today
  • +338 stars gained
  • 199k stars
  • 18.8k forks
  • 1.5k watchers
git
git clone https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts.git
  • activator
  • hwid
  • kms
  • kms38

massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Open on GitHubBatchfile

Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.

  • 2,297+23 Elo, change today
  • +338 stars gained
  • 199k stars
  • 18.8k forks
  • 1.5k watchers
git
git clone https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts.git
  • activator
  • hwid
  • kms
  • kms38

Top 23 on the Elo ladder

  1. #65
    massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

    Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with…

    2,297 Elo +5199kBatchfile
  2. #131
    microsoft/vscode

    Visual Studio Code

    2,194 Elo −80195kTypeScript
  3. #564
    HeyPuter/everything

    We're rebuilding and open-sourcing the world’s software from scratch.

    1,951 Elo +988.4kJavaScript
  4. #1,969
    qax-os/excelize

    Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets

    1,731 Elo −8021.1kGo
  5. #2,903
    microsoft/fluentui

    Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.

    1,644 Elo −2720.4kTypeScript
  6. #3,658
    thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core

    :honeybee: A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software

    1,595 Elo −4321.4kC#
  7. #3,896
    OdysseusYuan/LKY_OfficeTools

    一键自动化 下载、安装、激活 Office 的利器。

    1,579 Elo −2213kC#
  8. #3,972
    dotnet/maui

    .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile…

    1,575 Elo −3923.3kC#
  9. #4,157
    abraunegg/onedrive

    OneDrive Client for Linux

    1,565 Elo +2513kD
  10. #4,324
    Axorax/awesome-free-apps

    Curated list of the best free apps for PC and mobile

    1,555 Elo +748kJavaScript
  11. #4,625
    dotnet/corefx

    This repo is used for servicing PR's for .NET Core 2.1 and 3.1. Please visit us at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime

    1,538 Elo −5817.4k
  12. #4,691
    YSGStudyHards/DotNetGuide

    🌈【C#/.NET/.NET Core学习、工作、面试指南】记录、收集和总结C#/.NET/.NET…

    1,535 Elo −4411.1kC#
  13. #4,766
    microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

    AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability…

    1,531 Elo +276.5kPython
  14. #5,294
    dotnet-architecture/eShopOnWeb

    Sample ASP.NET Core 8.0 reference application, now community supported: https://github.com/NimblePros/eShopOnWeb

    1,506 Elo −3910.6kC#
  15. #6,473
    microsoft/Mastering-GitHub-Copilot-for-Paired-Programming

    A multi-module course teaching everything you need to know about using GitHub Copilot as an AI Peer Programming…

    1,453 Elo −198.1kPython
  16. #7,378
    microsoft/frontend-bootcamp

    Frontend Workshop from HTML/CSS/JS to TypeScript/React/Redux

    1,418 Elo −2110.7kTypeScript
  17. #7,424
    AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor

    Resources for Blazor, a .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly.

    1,417 Elo −29.3k
  18. #7,760
    microsoft/computervision-recipes

    Best Practices, code samples, and documentation for Computer Vision.

    1,404 Elo −159.8kJupyter Notebook
  19. #7,786
    chakra-core/ChakraCore

    ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.

    1,403 Elo −219.2kJavaScript
  20. #7,862
    microsoft/Detours

    Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows. It is distributed in source code…

    1,401 Elo +146.4kC++
  21. #8,999
    dice2o/BingGPT

    Desktop application of new Bing's AI-powered chat (Windows, macOS and Linux)

    1,350 Elo −178.8kJavaScript
  22. #9,054
    microsoft/azuredatastudio

    Azure Data Studio is a data management and development tool with connectivity to popular cloud and on-premises…

    1,347 Elo −167.6kTypeScript
  23. #9,621
    sirredbeard/awesome-wsl

    Awesome list dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux

    1,304 Elo −36.6k