April 2006 - Posts - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

April 2006 - Posts

    Linux World Boston 2006
    by admin on April 28, 2006

    A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to be the first person from Microsoft to keynote a Linux World conference. Although the concept may sound unusual.... ... more

    Recovering remote NT/W2K/XP desktops with a network boot CD/DVD
    by admin on April 27, 2006

    Another question from the Port 25 community answered by OSSL staff...... more

    In Case You Missed It...
    by admin on April 27, 2006

    Ok Bill, I have a real suggestion here that is hopefully within the scope of what you are doing (and hopefully you're still reading the comments here). I'd also like to voice it to someone else at Microsoft since the MS rep I spoke to tonight blew me off...... more

    • Thursday, April 27, 2006
    • in: Community
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    Consistency and Standards – an IT Pro’s best bet in crisis
    by admin on April 27, 2006

    Seventeenth Century Philosopher and Author Voltaire wrote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."... more

    • Thursday, April 27, 2006
    • in: Community
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    WIX: An Open Source Project at Microsoft
    by admin on April 25, 2006

    Sam Interviews Rob Mensching, owner of the WIX project and an Open Source pioneer at Microsoft. ... more

    • Tuesday, April 25, 2006
    • in: Media
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    Black Helicopters
    by admin on April 25, 2006

    Reading through some of the first posts to Port25, there has been some great ideas and posts. There have also been some really interesting conspiracy theories, so let me clarify some things we’ve seen in the blog posts, emails, and even other Web sites and articles...... more

    • Tuesday, April 25, 2006
    • in: Community
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    Through A Glass Darkly
    by admin on April 24, 2006

    We are launching the MPEG-4 versions of our interviews today (now linked on the interview pages themselves), and future interviews will be posted in MPEG-4 and WMV simultaneously. This was overwhelmingly the top request for formats from the community... more

    Oil and Water?
    by admin on April 21, 2006

    It’s been an interesting week for Interop inside the lab – we’re running an IPSEC interoperability project to test Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, and Mandriva with Windows Networking technology, and ran interviews both with the IDMU (Identity Management for Unix) Program Manager and with Paul Moore, CTO of Centrify.... more

    A Look Inside Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab (Part 2)
    by admin on April 21, 2006

    In part 2 of "Inside the Open Source Software Lab", we discuss some of the lab’s other areas of focus and how that research is helping Microsoft better understand Open Source Software trends.... more

    Running Windows Command Line Applications from a Linux Box
    by admin on April 19, 2006

    Question: "Can you recommend anything for running command line applications on a Windows XP/2000 box from within a program that runs on Linux?" A tip from the lab...... more

    Community Registration
    by admin on April 19, 2006

    When we launched Port 25 we felt that it was important to leave the comments area open – to invite participation. Our goal is to encourage thoughtful, open exchange of concerns and ideas....... more

    • Wednesday, April 19, 2006
    • in: Community
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    Java with half-and-half
    by admin on April 18, 2006

    I got the chance to spend an hour this week with Dr. Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. He’s been refining a Java/.NET interoperability product for the last five years – starting out with a risky bet on .NET when it was only in Beta. Back then I was at BEA...... more

    • Tuesday, April 18, 2006
    • in: Community
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    Hats off to JBoss
    by admin on April 14, 2006

    Running a startup is hard. Keeping it going and focused is harder. Selling it while maintaining your principles is nearly impossible – but JBoss has scored a hat trick....... more

    We are receiving…
    by admin on April 07, 2006

    Thank you for bringing your honest thoughts to the site in the last two days. No productive conversation can exist without candor - and you all have been candid...... more

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