Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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• Bryan Kirschner
• Interop
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• 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

Accessibility on Windows and Linux

by Sam Ramji on November 08, 2007

Back in Windows 95, Microsoft made a major contribution to accessibility to computers for people with vision and hearing impairments: MSAA, or Microsoft Active Accessibility. At that time it was an additional download, but from Windows 98 on this technology was built into the OS. MSAA allows users to run screen readers, Braille devices, and other accessibility technologies that work across multiple... more

• Thursday, November 08, 2007
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji