by Peter Galli on November 09, 2009
Today, Microsoft and Novell marked the third anniversary of the collaboration agreement during a gathering of IT executives at the Society of Information Management SIMPosium 09 conference in Seattle... 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
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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
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by hjanssen on July 20, 2009
Well, there is no easy way to say this, so I am simply going to start this blog with the following line: Microsoft just submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components to the Linux Kernel Community Under GPL v2
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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
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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 January 23, 2009
Microsoft and Novell joined forces this week to make sure that Linux users were able to watch the Barack Obama Official Inauguration stream with Novell's Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0. The issue was that while... more
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by Peter Galli on November 18, 2008
It is two years this month since Microsoft and Novell struck their ground-breaking technical collaboration agreement , a move that has effectively ensured greater interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This technical... more
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by Sam Ramji on November 08, 2007
Back in Windows 95, Microsoft made a major contribution to accessibility to computers for people with vision and hearing impairments: MSAA, or Microsoft Active Accessibility. At that time it was an additional download, but from Windows 98 on this technology was built into the OS. MSAA allows users to run screen readers, Braille devices, and other accessibility technologies that work across multiple... more
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by hanrahat on September 12, 2007
We’ve announced this week the opening of the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With this announcement we can now talk about the work that’s been underway at the lab since the beginning of summer...... more
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by Sam Ramji on August 03, 2007
Back in the Spring, Sam Ramji attended an Olliance event entitled, the Open Source Think Tank. It's a smaller gathering, and well attended by nearly 100 or so executives and influential developer-users of open source software. During one of the sessions, Sam and Justin Steinman took an impromptu moment to answer some tough questions regarding the nature of the Microsoft-Novell partnership. Justin Steinman... more
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by billhilf on November 02, 2006
Today we announced a very important partnership with Novell that represents a milestone for our industry. The partnership has technical, business and legal significance for Microsoft, Novell, our customers and the open source community. I want to break it down into reasonably sized chunks of information to help explain what it is and how we arrived here...... more
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