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Tuesday April 29, 2008 in: Server Center by: Sam Ramji with 3 comment(s)

Managing Towards Open

I have the privilege of interacting almost every day with technical and business experts who are creating the future of software—including both core engineering teams at Microsoft and thought leaders across a broad spectrum of open source communities...more

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    Managing Towards Open

    I have the privilege of interacting almost every day with technical and business experts who are creating the future of software—including both core engineering teams at Microsoft and thought leaders across a broad spectrum of open source communities...

    Open Source Day + 30 …

    The same week that Brad Smith (Microsoft’s General Counsel) keynoted at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) , we held our first Microsoft-wide Open Source Day (which Jamie and Mario both blogged about). We all noticed folks expressed interest in...

    • Friday, April 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Code Parallel or Die, Part 2

    It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight...

    • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Frank Chism
    Code Parallel or Die

    “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” - Luke in “Cool Hand Luke” A fist full of cores in a server rich environment. If you haven’t noticed that the world has changed, you had better wake up and smell the coffee. The era of killer apps written...

    • Monday, April 14, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Frank Chism
    MVP Summit Ruby Meetup

    John Lam brings word of a Ruby meet-up at the MVP Summit happening today at 2PM at the International Meeting Place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Quote John: "I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There...

    • Monday, April 14, 2008
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    A funny thing happened on the way to ApacheCon

    Back in January, I invited the Apache Software Foundation to attend the Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Labs, here on our campus in Redmond. The week that Apache was here, was so valuable for both groups--the product groups got to see and...

    • Thursday, April 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Garrett Serack
    Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox

    I am very proud to announce that we have released another official Microsoft plug-in. It shows another level of interoperability and eagerness in working with the Community to get this released... ...

    • Monday, April 16, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • hjanssen
    Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support

    Today we are introducing Cyril Voisin, Security Advisor for Microsoft in France who shares his insights on booting Linux with Vista's boot manager and building a dual boot system with Windows Vista BitLocker protection with TPM Support......

    Windows Vista Beta/Linux IPsec Interop Testing

    This document provides an overview of LInux IPsec solutions as well as detailed discussions on configuring IPsec-Tools for interoperability scenarios between Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 and Windows Vista Ultimate Beta....

    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as...

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes...

    How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008

    When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out: Modular architectures You can find these wherever you see participation at scale – and often a rearchitecture to a more modular system...

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