by billhilf on September 10, 2009
I felt it was important to provide some thoughts to the Port25 community on Sam Ramji’s impending departure from Microsoft. After many years helping to carry the open source software banner for the company, Sam is leaving Microsoft at the end of this month. ... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on April 28, 2009
The first time I went to a LinuxWorld conference as a Microsoft employee, a guy passing by me saw "Microsoft" on my name badge and stopped. "Microsoft? What are you guys doing here?" he said. "I loved Microsoft. You put my kids through college." As it... more
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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 November 10, 2008
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have signed a search distribution deal under which the MSN Toolbar, which is powered by Microsoft Live Search, will be available to U.S.-based Internet Explorer users when they download the Java Runtime Environment. The... more
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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
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by hjanssen on October 29, 2008
Wednesday - Day two for my IPC in Mainz conference, which is a developer orientated PHP conference . Very well attended. The most negative thing I can say about this conference is that for some unknown (but brilliant beyond my level of comprehension)... more
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by Peter Galli on October 28, 2008
There was lots of news announced at PDC here in Los Angeles on Tuesday. From the first public demo of Windows 7, to how Microsoft is extending Office to the browser, to the release of the Silverlight Toolkit, and much, much more. Rather than bore you... more
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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
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by Peter Galli on October 20, 2008
The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo got underway in San Jose today, under the broad theme of "Rich Web Technologies for Enterprise Web 2.0 & Social Web." Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, delivered the keynote address today, while... more
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by Sam Ramji on October 16, 2008
It has been a month or so since the Codeplex announcement of server support for SVNBridge , which enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server, and the team is looking for feedback now this has been out for a while. I also recently interviewed... more
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by jcannon on October 10, 2008
When I began my journey with technology, it was with a passion for the web. Living off a friend’s T1 line, I was hacking together HTML when Mosaic was the only show in town. I’m returning to that love of the web next week where I’ll be moving to a new... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on February 05, 2008
“Our goal here is to evolve and to hopefully provide information that makes it easier for people using OSS and Microsoft software in the real world.” Bill Hilf wrote this in an April 2006 blog entitled “Who Would Have Guessed?” just one week after Port25 launched. Although in hindsight it seems obvious Port25 was a good idea, back then there was a lot of guessing and finger-crossing...... more
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by jonrosenberg on January 08, 2008
Those of you who’ve read my little bio at the bottom of this blog may have guessed that I have a life-long passion for helping kids learn and a strong belief that technology can be a great educational tool. Next month I will be moving to a new position at Microsoft that will allow me to indulge this passion full-time as Director of Education Solutions, helping Microsoft to innovate around technology... more
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by kishi on November 06, 2007
I have been working as a Senior Program Manager with the Open Source Software Lab since the fall of 2005. After spending two of the most eye-opening and fantastic years here, sadly, time has come for me to move on. I am taking on a role in a different division inside of Microsoft but having been attached to Port25 for such a long time, I didn’t want to leave without writing my parting thoughts.... more
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by jcannon on October 31, 2007
It's been awhile since we've featured any books or authors on Port 25 - you may remember Jeremy Moscowitz on Windows/Linux Integration, and then Linux in a Windows World with Rod Smith. That doesn't mean our library shelves have gone empty though ~ so today we're going to run a small giveaway of some extra copies of .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit we came across.... more
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