January 2009 - Posts

    Live Search Add-in for Mozilla Firefox Released
    by Alessandro Catorcini on January 29, 2009

    This is Alessandro Catorcini, and I am the Lead Program Manager for Live Search API. I wanted to talk about today's announcement that we are releasing the official Live Search add-in for Mozilla Firefox. The Live Search add-in will allow Firefox users... more

    • Thursday, January 29, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Alessandro Catorcini
    Web Sandbox Source Now Available Under Apache License 2.0
    by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009

    Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform... more

    • Monday, January 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    CodePlex: A Year in Review
    by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009

    CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting Web site, has grown by leaps and bounds over the past calendar year. Visits to the Website more than doubled to top 19-million in 2008, while new registered users were up more than 70 percent to over 66... more

    • Monday, January 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Moonlight Shines on Obama's Inauguration
    by Peter Galli on January 23, 2009

    Microsoft and Novell joined forces this week to make sure that Linux users were able to watch the Barack Obama Official Inauguration stream with Novell's Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0. The issue was that while... more

    • Friday, January 23, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: Stonehenge Incubation Project
    by Peter Galli on January 19, 2009

    As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge... more

    • Monday, January 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: PHP 5.3 on Windows
    by hanrahat on January 16, 2009

    Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses. You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly... more

    • Friday, January 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hanrahat
    More Mac-Windows Collaboration
    by Peter Galli on January 07, 2009

    Microsoft plans to release new Macintosh software later this year, known as Document Collaboration Companion, that will allow users of Office 2008 for Mac to work with both Office for Windows and Office for Mac colleagues. This collaboration will be through... more

    • Wednesday, January 07, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex
    by Peter Galli on January 07, 2009

    DotNetNuke Corporation, the creator of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework , has decided to leverage the CodePlex infrastructure for its core product distribution . DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for download infrastructure, bandwidth... more

    • Wednesday, January 07, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    What's Microsoft up to with PHP?
    by Peter Galli on January 06, 2009

    Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up its participation in initiatives supporting Free and Open Source Software projects like Apache, Samba , and PHP . The company has also been working more closely with the PHP community, sponsoring PHP events... more

    • Tuesday, January 06, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
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