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Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool

As you know, Microsoft recently committed to making the source code as well as binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available this week, under the terms of the General Public License v2 as described here . While we worked extremely hard to try and...more

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    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool

    As you know, Microsoft recently committed to making the source code as well as binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available this week, under the terms of the General Public License v2 as described here . While we worked extremely hard to try and...

    • Friday, November 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released

    The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production...

    • Thursday, November 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Silverlight 4 Beta Hits the Street

    The beta for Silverlight 4 was released today, Scott Guthrie, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, told attendees at the annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. The final verison of the product will be shipped...

    • Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    PDC 2009: Availability of the Windows Azure Platform

    Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, used the company's annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles to announce the availability of the Windows Azure platform . That platform consists of Windows Azure, the operating system...

    • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework

    I have great news to announce. Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making...

    • Monday, November 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool

    As you've likely read and as was originally reported here , we've been investigating a report that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, might contain GPLv2 code. The WUDT is a free tool that was offered by the Microsoft Store and which enabled customers...

    • Friday, November 13, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    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....

    Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

    I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others...

    Data Recovery Using Linux

    It's happened to me and I'm sure it has happened to you: your software won't load and your data is now trapped inside your PC. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux...

    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...

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