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
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by Peter Galli on July 21, 2009
Today, Microsoft announced the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, a free download released under the General Public License v2 that integrates Microsoft's Live@edu services such as email, calendar, instant messaging and search directly into the Moodle... more
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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 April 10, 2009
The candidate specification of the ECMAScript language standard - known as ECMA-262, was published on April 9. ECMAScript is the scripting language used to create web pages with dynamic behavior, and is more commonly known as JavaScript. It is a component... more
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by Mark Stone on March 30, 2009
We should never forget that a key motivator for open source developers is fun. For student developers -- where open source really starts -- this is especially true. We’ve been looking at several potential student projects in Croatia, and for the past... more
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by Mark Stone on March 25, 2009
On Monday Microsoft and SD Forum held the 3rd annual Open Source ISV Forum. In a day of interesting talks, I was particularly struck by Larry Augustin's talk. As an emphasizing example of the growth of open source projects partnered with a commercial... more
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by Vijay Rajagopalan on March 18, 2009
In October 2008 , when Microsoft announced the general availability of Silverlight 2.0, and, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, Microsoft and Soyatec unveiled the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL). Today, Microsoft... more
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by Alessandro Catorcini on January 29, 2009
This is Alessandro Catorcini, and I am the Lead Program Manager for Live Search API. I wanted to talk about today's announcement that we are releasing the official Live Search add-in for Mozilla Firefox. The Live Search add-in will allow Firefox users... more
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by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009
Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform... more
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by Peter Galli on January 19, 2009
As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge... more
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by Peter Galli on December 16, 2008
In this, our second video filmed at an open source company, the spotlight falls on MindTouch , whose Deki Wiki enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. The first video talked to developers... more
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by Peter Galli on November 04, 2008
The extremely popular and well attended Web 2.0 Summit starts in San Francisco today, where Microsoft officially launched its global BizSpark program, designed to help startups grow into successful businesses through software support, a vibrant global... more
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by Peter Galli on October 27, 2008
More good news coming out of PDC today! Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.... 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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