November 2008 - Posts

    A New Appreciation for Open Source in India - and Our Role in it.
    by anandeep on November 29, 2008

    As I stated in my last blog, I am attending the premier Indian Open Source conference, FOSS.IN , in Bangalore. This conference had some very technical talks (which I will also blog about) but, like any other Open source conference, it was the people who... more

    • Saturday, November 29, 2008
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    What do BitRock Developers Really Think of Microsoft?
    by Peter Galli on November 25, 2008

    What do open source companies and their developers actually think of Microsoft and its relationship with them and their communities, and how much do they have in common? We decided to find out, so we sent a camera crew to two open source companies - BitRock... more

    • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    FOSS in India
    by anandeep on November 25, 2008

    I am writing this during lunch at FOSS.IN , the most prominent Open Source conference for developers and FOSS advocates in India. FOSS.IN is in Bangalore, which is where I graduated high school. That was a long time ago - and Bangalore has been transformed... more

    • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    Berkman Lunch: Open Source at Microsoft - Opportunity or Threat?
    by Bryan Kirschner on November 24, 2008

    I was recently at Harvard for two events. The first, which I'll talk about in this blog, was part of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard lunch series. Mario Madden and I were invited to speak at a session called " Microsoft and Open... more

    • Monday, November 24, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Two Years and Counting....
    by Peter Galli on November 18, 2008

    It is two years this month since Microsoft and Novell struck their ground-breaking technical collaboration agreement , a move that has effectively ensured greater interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This technical... more

    • Tuesday, November 18, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Sun to Distribute the MSN Toolbar
    by Peter Galli on November 10, 2008

    Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have signed a search distribution deal under which the MSN Toolbar, which is powered by Microsoft Live Search, will be available to U.S.-based Internet Explorer users when they download the Java Runtime Environment. The... more

    • Monday, November 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    ApacheCon and the Stonehenge Proposal
    by Kamaljit Bath on November 10, 2008

    This is Kamaljit Bath, and I am in the Big Easy to experience my first Apache Conference ! I am a Principal Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team at Microsoft. We have been doing a lot of great interoperability work and have... more

    • Monday, November 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Kamaljit Bath
    Finally... dive-into-the-deep participation!
    by anandeep on November 07, 2008

    Whenever people get to know that I work in the Open Source Lab at Microsoft, there are a few knee jerk questions they always have. The most common one is: "Microsoft has an Open Source Lab?", while another question often asked is: "So when is Microsoft... more

    • Friday, November 07, 2008
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    Network Monitor to Open Source Parsers on CodePlex
    by Paul Long on November 07, 2008

    Today I am excited to announce that the development of protocol parsers for Microsoft Network Monitor is moving into an open source model, hosted on CodePlex . This site will host development of parsers for public protocols and for protocols described... more

    • Friday, November 07, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Paul Long
    Open Source Interoperability Projects
    by Jean Paoli on November 07, 2008

    Interoperability has always been a focus area at Microsoft. Being a platform company, Microsoft has engaged in interoperability at many levels - product features, participation in standardization bodies, publishing many technologies under open licenses... more

    • Friday, November 07, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Jean Paoli
    struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)
    by Sam Ramji on November 06, 2008

    I delivered the keynote at ApacheCon in New Orleans today, where I talked about some of the new milestones we have chalked up on the journey inside Microsoft towards greater participation and growth with open source communities, and our strategy of "architecting... more

    • Thursday, November 06, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    BizSpark Program Targets Startups
    by Peter Galli on November 04, 2008

    The extremely popular and well attended Web 2.0 Summit starts in San Francisco today, where Microsoft officially launched its global BizSpark program, designed to help startups grow into successful businesses through software support, a vibrant global... more

    • Tuesday, November 04, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Open Source Highlights at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference
    by hanrahat on November 04, 2008

    At last week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, product previews and announcements, particularly of Windows Azure , Windows 7 and Visual Studio Team System 2010, generated a lot of buzz. Throughout the week, an important undercurrent... more

    • Tuesday, November 04, 2008
    • in: Community
    • hanrahat
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