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    Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability
    by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008

    First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more

    • Wednesday, February 27, 2008
    • in: Server Center
    • Community Contributor
    Community Projects on Codeplex
    by jcannon on August 24, 2007

    Heading into a long (and quiet) weekend for many folks in the US, I thought I would highlight some useful open source projects on Windows, particularly after reading eWeek's gallery of the Top 25 Most Active Open Source Projects on Codeplex. There's some practical tools in the article - including an open source blogging engine, SQL sample applications and a cool mapping application. What many folks... more

    • Friday, August 24, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Virtual PC 2007 Released as a Free Download
    by MichaelF on February 20, 2007

    Just a quick note to let Port 25 readers know that yesterday Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 as a free download...... more

    • Tuesday, February 20, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    A Technical Look at ASP.NET AJAX
    by MichaelF on February 02, 2007

    Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx. Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly known as ATLAS running on top of PHP on Linux to demonstrate some of the front and backend extraction capabilities... ... more

    • Friday, February 02, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Photosynth on Firefox
    by Sam Ramji on January 24, 2007

    Today I got an email from Adam Sheppard, who leads development of Photosynth. If you haven’t seen Photosynth yet… it may be because you use Firefox and not IE. That is no longer an obstacle for those curious about the next generation of photo-management technology...... more

    • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    UNIX Interop in Vista Beta 2 and Longhorn Server
    by jcannon on July 06, 2006

    Last week, we released two new utilities to help customers achieve UNIX / Windows Interop. The first is a set of utilities and the SDK for the Subsystem for UNIX Architecture (SUA) in Vista Beta 2 & Longhorn. For those unaware, SUA is a native subsystem residing on top of the Windows kernel, just like the Win32 subsystem. It provides the basic infrastructure to run UNIX-based applications and scripts... more

    • Thursday, July 06, 2006
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released
    by admin on June 30, 2006

    The Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide was released this week. This guide details step-by-step instructions for providing security and directory services for mixed Windows and UNIX environments using AD. Although this release addresses AD integration only for Solaris 9 and for RedHat 9, it is pretty simple to see how it would apply to other UNIX and UNIX-like systems...... more

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