September 2007 - Posts - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

September 2007 - Posts

    A Socio-Cultural Exploration: Geekus Unixus Microsoftus
    by jcannon on September 28, 2007

    Frequent visitors to Port 25 may be familiar with Paula Bach’s HCI and ICT work from her blogging over the summer. What may not be familiar to many is the collaborative work we’ve done with Tracy Kennedy at the University of Toronto around the intersection of technology and communities. Open source is clearly a manifestation of this intersection. Tracy’s work is impressive, and while her doctoral... more

    • Friday, September 28, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Haskell in the Hallway: Sam Interviews Simon Peyton Jones
    by Sam Ramji on September 26, 2007

    While at OSCON Sam and I had a chance to spend some time with Simon Peyton Jones to talk about Haskell, functional programming and other topics...... more

    • Wednesday, September 26, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    PHP on IIS
    by jcannon on September 24, 2007

    Just about one year ago, Bill Hilf announced Zend and Microsoft's partnership to enhance PHP performance on Windows Server's IIS web server. This technical collaboration has focused on enhancing the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI... more

    • Monday, September 24, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab Announcement
    by hanrahat on September 12, 2007

    We’ve announced this week the opening of the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With this announcement we can now talk about the work that’s been underway at the lab since the beginning of summer...... more

    • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • in: Community
    • hanrahat
    Pondering the preliminary results of OSS usability research - Part 2
    by Paula Bach on September 10, 2007

    Developing software has been an engineering discipline with formal methods. The evolution of software methods has ranged from the now outdated waterfall method to formal specification languages with precise semantics. Despite having methodologies, software engineering continues to be difficult. Yet despite having what seems a lack of software engineering methodology, open source software development... more

    • Monday, September 10, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Paula Bach
    Silverlight on Linux
    by Sam Ramji on September 05, 2007

    After a great deal of work between the Moonlight and .NET teams, we’re ready to formally announce that we (Microsoft and Novell) will be bringing Silverlight to Linux, fully supported and including application and media codec compatibility...... more

    • Wednesday, September 05, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
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