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    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
    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
    Helping Facilitate Open Government
    by Peter Galli on May 06, 2009

    Microsoft will announce on May 7 an initiative to help government agencies and developers publish and interact with their data in Windows Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. One of these is the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), a cloud... more

    • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft Details Support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2
    by Peter Galli on December 17, 2008

    Microsoft has released documentation that details the implementation of the Open Document Format in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is available at no cost on the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) Web site . This, along with the soon-to-be... more

    • Wednesday, December 17, 2008
    • 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
    Open Source Interoperability Projects
    by Jean Paoli on November 07, 2008

    Interoperability has always been a focus area at Microsoft. Being a platform company, Microsoft has engaged in interoperability at many levels - product features, participation in standardization bodies, publishing many technologies under open licenses... more

    • Friday, November 07, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Jean Paoli
    Accessibility on Windows and Linux
    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

    • Thursday, November 08, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
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