Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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Windows Live Embraces the Activity Streams Open Standard

by Peter Galli on September 04, 2009

More good news with regard to Microsoft's embrace of open standards, this time out of the Windows Live group, which is using a developing open standard called Activity Streams, an extension to the Atom feed format ... more

• Friday, September 04, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support

by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more

• Monday, April 30, 2007
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Developer Resources for Open Source Software on Vista

by MichaelF on October 10, 2006

Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance.  After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers.  Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV.  This is where we would... more

• Tuesday, October 10, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF