by hanrahat on January 16, 2009
Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses. You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly... more
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by Peter Galli on November 10, 2008
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have signed a search distribution deal under which the MSN Toolbar, which is powered by Microsoft Live Search, will be available to U.S.-based Internet Explorer users when they download the Java Runtime Environment. The... more
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by jcannon on May 27, 2008
Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show... more
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by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008
It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more
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by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008
I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more
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by MichaelF on April 10, 2007
In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes.
One potential application of this process is to use Excel as a front-end for data analysis. Data can be pulled from views or tables and then further analyzed... more
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by MichaelF on October 10, 2006
Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance. After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers. Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV. This is where we would... more
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by admin on April 25, 2006
Sam Interviews Rob Mensching, owner of the WIX project and an Open Source pioneer at Microsoft.
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