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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
    Technical Analysis: Active Directory and Linux Identity Management
    by jcannon on December 11, 2007

    This paper is written for a somewhat technical audience and covers how the identity management expectations differ between the Windows Server platform and Linux - and how Windows Server can be used to manage both. This paper assume that the reader is familiar with general Windows administration tasks, such as user management.... more

    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
    Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0
    by jcannon on October 23, 2007

    A quick note to let our community know that Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0 has been released - bringing the version number up to 2.0. For those unfamiliar with Virtual Machine Additions for Linux, it is technology layer designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines inside of Virtual Server. From the release notes, it... more

    • Tuesday, October 23, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • jcannon
    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
    Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire
    by MichaelF on August 13, 2007

    I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others on Linux and Windows interoperability. Overall our focus is on three critical technology areas for the next-generation datacenter: virtualization... more

    Windows Vista Beta/Linux IPsec Interop Testing
    by MichaelF on May 09, 2007

    This document provides an overview of LInux IPsec solutions as well as detailed discussions on configuring IPsec-Tools for interoperability scenarios between Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 and Windows Vista Ultimate Beta.... more

    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
    Windows and Linux Integration: Printer Sharing between Windows and Linux
    by MichaelF on October 16, 2006

    Last Thursday we posted an interview with Jeremy Moskowitz in which we mentioned the book he authored: Windows and Linux Integration. As promised, today we have posted a complete chapter from the book... more

    Windows and Linux Integration: A Conversation with the Author
    by MichaelF on October 12, 2006

    Sam Interviews Jeremy Moskowitz who runs http://www.winlinanswers.com and http://www.gpanswers.com to discuss his experiences helping clients solve their Windows and Linux integration problems...... more

    • Thursday, October 12, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
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