I have always been a fan of Tim O’Reilly’s phrase the “ architecture of participation ” to describe “systems designed for user contribution.” I liked it so much that at last year’s OSCON I made this concept the focal point of a discussion about how Microsoft...
- Thursday, February 21, 2008
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It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to blog. It is usually on airplane time that I do any blogging, and since I haven’t flown in a while, I guess that will be my excuse. I’m on my way to Asia, currently over eastern Russian airspace, which means...
- Friday, December 14, 2007
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Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft’s position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft, the OSS...
- Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Things I’ve been collecting, with no rhyme or reason connecting them…I stumbled upon this very interesting project from Microsoft Research India – SMS Toolkit. This project, and the work being done here with mobile phones and SMS servers as a PC replacement...
- Monday, June 25, 2007
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We recently announced the addition of IIS7 to the Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 (formerly known as Longhorn Server). Server Core is an important evolution of our server product and will include a variety of roles, such as print server...
- Thursday, June 07, 2007
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It’s been an interesting week, with people offering a range of opinions about what they think is happening in Redmond. Despite a lot of pontification, our strategy regarding intellectual property and open source has not changed – and it is not frivolous...
- Friday, May 18, 2007
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