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
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by Peter Galli on September 10, 2009
Many of you will, by now, have heard about the formation of the CodePlex Foundation. In order to give you an in-depth look into the thinking behind the Foundation, I talked to Bill Staples, the General Manager for the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft... more
- Thursday, September 10, 2009
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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
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by Peter Galli on August 17, 2009
David Starr, a Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System and who runs ElegantCode Cast, a podcast series off his Website , recently conducted an interview with Sam Ramji and me. It is a comprehensive interview about all things open source... more
- Monday, August 17, 2009
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by Peter Galli on August 10, 2009
Jason Perlow, a columnist over at ZDNet, has written a comprehensive review on virtualizing free Linux distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2. In his Tech Broiler column, Perlow notes that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer... more
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by Peter Galli on July 21, 2009
I'm back at the San Jose at the McEnery Convention Center after attending the Community Leadership Summit this weekend, where we are setting up the Microsoft booth in preparation for the formal opening of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON )... more
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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
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by Peter Galli on July 10, 2009
Microsoft Silverlight 3 is now available for download, as is the Release Candidate for Expression Blend, while the associated Expression 3 tool suite will be available within 30 days... more
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by Peter Galli on May 04, 2009
As Microsoft continues to engage in active dialogues with a variety of communities, including academic institutions, Sam Ramji - Microsoft's Senior Director of Platform Strategy - talked to a group of Computer Science students at Michigan State University... more
- Monday, May 04, 2009
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by Peter Galli on April 23, 2009
A lot has been written by the press and blogosphere since the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit was held earlier this month, particularly about the panel that included Microsoft's Sam Ramji, Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock, and Linux Foundation... more
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by Peter Galli on April 22, 2009
Microsoft is sponsoring research at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) to develop an open source Network File System client for Windows. This will enable Windows to better interoperate with this emerging... more
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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by Peter Galli on March 09, 2009
I would like to introduce Mark Stone, who will be a regular contributor to Port 25 going forward. Mark has a long association with open source. He did his first Linux install in 1994 and, in the fifteen years since, has served as O'Reilly's executive... more
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by Peter Galli on February 25, 2009
Open Source at Microsoft has gotten a lot of press attention recently. Influential blogger Matt Asay reported today that Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, was at the Stanford Accel Symposium , where he said that "at some... more
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by Peter Galli on February 16, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. This is deeply significant as it means that customers will be able to confidently... more
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by Peter Galli on February 11, 2009
Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight is an open source project that gives Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content, and is available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu... more
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