by Peter Galli on May 12, 2009
The Stonehenge incubator project is approaching its first milestone: deploying the first set of samples and making them work together. This is a really exciting development and continues to deliver on the project's primary goal: to provide practical applications... more
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by Peter Galli on May 06, 2009
Microsoft will announce on May 7 an initiative to help government agencies and developers publish and interact with their data in Windows Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. One of these is the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), a cloud... more
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by Peter Galli on April 23, 2009
A lot has been written by the press and blogosphere since the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit was held earlier this month, particularly about the panel that included Microsoft's Sam Ramji, Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock, and Linux Foundation... more
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by Peter Galli on April 22, 2009
Microsoft is sponsoring research at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) to develop an open source Network File System client for Windows. This will enable Windows to better interoperate with this emerging... more
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by Peter Galli on April 10, 2009
The candidate specification of the ECMAScript language standard - known as ECMA-262, was published on April 9. ECMAScript is the scripting language used to create web pages with dynamic behavior, and is more commonly known as JavaScript. It is a component... more
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by Peter Galli on March 09, 2009
In case you missed it, the Apache Software Foundation announced last week that the Qpid project has graduated from the Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project, which essentially means that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under... more
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by Peter Galli on February 25, 2009
Open Source at Microsoft has gotten a lot of press attention recently. Influential blogger Matt Asay reported today that Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, was at the Stanford Accel Symposium , where he said that "at some... more
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by Peter Galli on February 16, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. This is deeply significant as it means that customers will be able to confidently... more
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by Peter Galli on February 11, 2009
Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight is an open source project that gives Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content, and is available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu... more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by Peter Galli on December 17, 2008
Microsoft has released documentation that details the implementation of the Open Document Format in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is available at no cost on the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) Web site . This, along with the soon-to-be... more
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by Peter Galli on December 16, 2008
In this, our second video filmed at an open source company, the spotlight falls on MindTouch , whose Deki Wiki enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. The first video talked to developers... more
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