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    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
    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
    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
    The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
    by Peter Galli on August 21, 2009

    Today, the DPE Interop team at Microsoft released a new open source project that bridges PHP and .NET using REST. Specifically, the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services was made available, which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of... more

    • Friday, August 21, 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, NASA and Open Source
    by Peter Galli on June 02, 2009

    There has been some renewed media interest in the NASA Space Act Agreement with Microsoft, which was signed earlier this year. Microsoft signed that agreement so as to provide an umbrella framework of contractual terms that allows for a variety of cooperative... more

    • Tuesday, June 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    ECMAScript Candidate Specification Published
    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

    • Friday, April 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Integrate Your IT Environment
    by Peter Galli on April 02, 2009

    Microsoft is embarking on a 15-city road show to help customers learn more about available solutions that may address their unique interoperability needs. This is just another of the many ways Microsoft continues to respond to customers working in heterogeneous... more

    • Thursday, April 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Brazilian Students Set Their Own Course
    by Mark Stone on March 16, 2009

    I’m going to tell a story that starts in Indiana, but really it’s about Brazil. Once upon a time “scientific computing” was nearly synonymous with “Fortran”. Today, though, just about any high level language can be used to write High Performance Computing... more

    • Monday, March 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Mark Stone
    Web Sandbox Source Now Available Under Apache License 2.0
    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

    • Monday, January 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: Stonehenge Incubation Project
    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

    • Monday, January 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    ApacheCon and the Stonehenge Proposal
    by Kamaljit Bath on November 10, 2008

    This is Kamaljit Bath, and I am in the Big Easy to experience my first Apache Conference ! I am a Principal Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team at Microsoft. We have been doing a lot of great interoperability work and have... more

    • Monday, November 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Kamaljit Bath
    struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)
    by Sam Ramji on November 06, 2008

    I delivered the keynote at ApacheCon in New Orleans today, where I talked about some of the new milestones we have chalked up on the journey inside Microsoft towards greater participation and growth with open source communities, and our strategy of "architecting... more

    • Thursday, November 06, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts
    by Sam Ramji on October 27, 2008

    Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008
    by Sam Ramji on February 27, 2008

    When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out: Modular architectures You can find these wherever you see participation at scale – and often a rearchitecture to a more modular system... more

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