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    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
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    • Sam Ramji
    Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts
    by Sam Ramji on October 27, 2008

    Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    The Imperative of Participation
    by Bryan Kirschner on November 09, 2007

    I blogged awhile back about “Microsoft and open source growing together”—more in the sense of concurrency rather than causality. Today I’m blogging about the latter. I’ve found the graphic below to be one of the most powerful visual representations of a basic fact that is often forgotten. The surface area of the globe below represents the total number of the people working in the technology ecosystem... more

    • Friday, November 09, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Shipping Containers and Standardization
    by billhilf on November 28, 2006

    I’m sitting in Istanbul watching ships – big ships with huge loads of containers on board. I recently finished a great book titled The Box, How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson (2006), a fascinating analysis of the history of the shipping container. It may sound dry, but it’s a very interesting story – particularly of the entrepreneur, Malcom... more

    • Tuesday, November 28, 2006
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Sendmail on Sender-ID
    by Sam Ramji on November 20, 2006

    Eric Allman (founder of Sendmail, inventor of Allman notation, original hacker) graciously took some time with me to discuss his take on Microsoft’s opening of the Sender-ID specification. Thank you, Eric!... more

    • Monday, November 20, 2006
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
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