by Peter Galli on June 29, 2009
As Microsoft continues to support and participate in open source communities, the company is again a proud sponsor of the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON ), which is being held in San Jose from July 20 to July 24. In addition to having... more
- Monday, June 29, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Garrett Serack on June 23, 2009
In the previous post, I discussed what it took to use PGO on the Windows PHP build. That led to me building automated build scripts... more
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Garrett Serack
by Garrett Serack on June 11, 2009
I talked about getting started in building the PHP stack in my last post, now I'm taking it one step further.... more
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Garrett Serack
by Mark Stone on June 01, 2009
The 1.0 release of WinBioinfTools might seem like a modest event; as of this writing, the project has 44 downloads. High Performance Computing (HPC) is a small community, granted, and the number of HPC applications for bioinformatics is a small subset... more
- Monday, June 01, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Mark Stone
by Peter Galli on May 29, 2009
Microsoft Malaysia is helping sponsor a competition, known as LAMP2WIN, designed to help ensure that PHP applications run well on both Windows and open source platforms. The competition, themed ‘World of Interoperability,' is being organized by PHP.net... more
- Friday, May 29, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Peter Galli on May 20, 2009
Tony Hey , the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research's External Research group, used the Open Repositories Conference to announce today the public availability of Zentity and the second version of the Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 ,... more
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Peter Galli on May 12, 2009
Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo later this week a new set of interoperability projects related to PHP. These projects include the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , an open source effort for... more
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
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
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
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
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Bryan Kirschner on April 28, 2009
The first time I went to a LinuxWorld conference as a Microsoft employee, a guy passing by me saw "Microsoft" on my name badge and stopped. "Microsoft? What are you guys doing here?" he said. "I loved Microsoft. You put my kids through college." As it... more
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Bryan Kirschner
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
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
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
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Peter Galli on April 15, 2009
I noticed today that my colleague Jeff Jones in the security group is launching a metric project that appears to be leveraging some of the good bits of open techniques. I touched base with him briefly and he gave me a little more information about Project... more
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
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
- Friday, April 10, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Peter Galli
by Mark Stone on April 10, 2009
Discussions of the PC market usually break down into "desktop" vs. "server", as if these are the only platform categories. However, the developer's dev box -- call it a "workstation" to distinguish it from desktop -- is really a separate platform. Remember... more
- Friday, April 10, 2009
-
in:
Community
- Mark Stone