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    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool
    by Peter Galli on November 20, 2009

    As you know, Microsoft recently committed to making the source code as well as binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available this week, under the terms of the General Public License v2 as described here . While we worked extremely hard to try and... more

    • Friday, November 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Tuxera Signs File System IP Agreement with Microsoft
    by Peter Galli on August 26, 2009

    Tuxera, a Finnish company that develops NTFS drivers, has entered into a file system IP agreement with Microsoft in the area of data portability for devices... more

    • Wednesday, August 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    More on the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components
    by hjanssen on July 20, 2009

    Well, there is no easy way to say this, so I am simply going to start this blog with the following line: Microsoft just submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components to the Linux Kernel Community Under GPL v2 ... more

    • Monday, July 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    Microsoft Releases Device Driver Code to the Linux Community
    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

    • Monday, July 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The ECMA C# and CLI Standards
    by Peter Galli on July 06, 2009

    I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs.... more

    • Monday, July 06, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft Out in the Open
    by jonrosenberg on October 16, 2007

    This morning, we were excited to learn that two of Microsoft’s Shared Source licenses have been approved by the OSI. It’s been an interesting and educational couple of months since we submitted these licenses (we announced our intent in July, and submitted on August 10th.) I personally enjoyed hearing the wide diversity of opinions from the community, including the legal professionals who weighed... more

    • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jonrosenberg
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