by Peter Galli on November 19, 2009
The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production... more
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by Peter Galli on November 18, 2009
The beta for Silverlight 4 was released today, Scott Guthrie, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, told attendees at the annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. The final verison of the product will be shipped... more
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by Peter Galli on November 17, 2009
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, used the company's annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles to announce the availability of the Windows Azure platform . That platform consists of Windows Azure, the operating system... more
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by Peter Galli on November 12, 2009
As you probably know, Microsoft was both a sponsor and active participant at ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland, California last week. But what you might not know is that we also showed our lighter, more fun side, when we participated in the Lightning Talks, which... more
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by Peter Galli on November 09, 2009
Today, Microsoft and Novell marked the third anniversary of the collaboration agreement during a gathering of IT executives at the Society of Information Management SIMPosium 09 conference in Seattle... more
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by hjanssen on October 07, 2009
Hello again! It has been a pretty busy couple of months for us, and I wanted to give you an update on what we've been doing: we just completed the first step in another major milestone for Hyper-V... more
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by billhilf on September 10, 2009
I felt it was important to provide some thoughts to the Port25 community on Sam Ramji’s impending departure from Microsoft. After many years helping to carry the open source software banner for the company, Sam is leaving Microsoft at the end of this month. ... more
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by Peter Galli on August 10, 2009
Jason Perlow, a columnist over at ZDNet, has written a comprehensive review on virtualizing free Linux distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2. In his Tech Broiler column, Perlow notes that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer... more
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by Peter Galli on July 20, 2009
In what many may see as a surprising move, Microsoft today released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular General Public Licence v2... more
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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
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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
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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 Garrett Serack on May 11, 2009
Howdy, I've been working for many months with Pierre Joye - well, really many people in the PHP community - on getting PHP to run faster on Windows. Pierre has been working rapidly on upgrading libraries (Pierre pioneered the work to get PHP and its hoard... more
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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
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by Mark Stone on March 16, 2009
I’m going to tell a story that starts in Indiana, but really it’s about Brazil. Once upon a time “scientific computing” was nearly synonymous with “Fortran”. Today, though, just about any high level language can be used to write High Performance Computing... more
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