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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
    Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released
    by Peter Galli on November 19, 2009

    The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production... more

    • Thursday, November 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework
    by Peter Galli on November 16, 2009

    I have great news to announce. Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making... more

    • Monday, November 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool
    by Peter Galli on November 13, 2009

    As you've likely read and as was originally reported here , we've been investigating a report that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, might contain GPLv2 code. The WUDT is a free tool that was offered by the Microsoft Store and which enabled customers... more

    • Friday, November 13, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Team Microsoft Sings "Them Incubator Blues" at ApacheCon
    by Peter Galli on November 12, 2009

    As you probably know, Microsoft was both a sponsor and active participant at ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland, California last week. But what you might not know is that we also showed our lighter, more fun side, when we participated in the Lightning Talks, which... more

    • Thursday, November 12, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The Business of Open Source
    by Sandy Gupta on November 05, 2009

    I am blogging from ApacheCon here in Oakland, where the Apache Software Foundation its celebrating its 10 th anniversary . Congratulations to the Apache community and cheers to the next ten! Our focus at Microsoft is to make Windows Server a platform... more

    • Thursday, November 05, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Microsoft and ApacheCon 2009
    by Peter Galli on November 03, 2009

    This week marks the 10 th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, which is being celebrated at the annual ApacheCon U.S. event. Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of both the ASF and ApacheCon 2009 . The Apache community is an important... more

    • Tuesday, November 03, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    A Chat With Apache Software Foundation President Justin Erenkrantz
    by Peter Galli on November 02, 2009

    This week the Apache Software Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at its annual U.S. ApacheCon 2009 event in Oakland. As such, I though it would be interesting to chat with ASF President Justin Erenkrantz about the past 10 years and what's still... more

    • Monday, November 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Moving Forward With Eclipse
    by Sandy Gupta on October 27, 2009

    It is great to see the work that started last year with the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, California continues its exciting journey. Today at the Eclipse Summit in Germany, the Interoperability team at Microsoft announced a number... more

    • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Part 1: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 19, 2009

    Before I became the Program Manager for CodePlex.com, Microsoft's open source project hosting site, I worked on the Visual Studio team on four different product cycles ... I had to learn about Agile development alongside learning about open source development when I joined the CodePlex.com team... more

    • Monday, October 19, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Another Great Step Forward for Hyper-V, Red Hat Certification
    by hjanssen on October 07, 2009

    Hello again! It has been a pretty busy couple of months for us, and I wanted to give you an update on what we've been doing: we just completed the first step in another major milestone for Hyper-V... more

    • Wednesday, October 07, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    New Bridge Broadens Java and .NET Interoperability
    by Peter Galli on September 29, 2009

    Microsoft continues to deliver on its ongoing promise to build bridges between different technologies, and this week jointly announced with Noelios Technologies a new interoperability bridge between Java and .NET through REST. The Microsoft Interoperability... more

    • Tuesday, September 29, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Apache Qpid Moves Forward
    by Sandy Gupta on September 29, 2009

    Microsoft recently made a significant code drop to the Apache Qpid project, Apache's implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, a new and reliable messaging protocol developed by some of the world's biggest messaging users... more

    • Tuesday, September 29, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    GroundWork Open Source Joins Microsoft's System Center Alliance
    by Peter Galli on September 24, 2009

    GroundWork Open Source, Inc., a commercial open source company that produces network management software, last week announced the availability of the GroundWork Connector for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager... more

    • Thursday, September 24, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development
    by Peter Galli on September 22, 2009

    Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features... more

    • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
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