Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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A Brief History of Open at Microsoft

by Sam Ramji on February 22, 2008

Four years ago, we started the Linux Lab at Microsoft. Two years ago, we established the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. One year ago, we initiated the Linux Interoperability Lab at Microsoft. Yesterday, we announced the broadest change to the... more

• Friday, February 22, 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

Silverlight on Linux

by Sam Ramji on September 05, 2007

After a great deal of work between the Moonlight and .NET teams, we’re ready to formally announce that we (Microsoft and Novell) will be bringing Silverlight to Linux, fully supported and including application and media codec compatibility...... more

• Wednesday, September 05, 2007
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Here's some big news

by billhilf on November 02, 2006

Today we announced a very important partnership with Novell that represents a milestone for our industry. The partnership has technical, business and legal significance for Microsoft, Novell, our customers and the open source community. I want to break it down into reasonably sized chunks of information to help explain what it is and how we arrived here...... more

• Thursday, November 02, 2006
• in: Community
• billhilf