Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

Browse by Tags

• ~FeaturedPost
• Active Directory
• Community
• Licenses
• Linux
• Management
• Networking
• Open Source
• OSCON
• Partnerships
• Peter Galli
• Server Center
• Server Core
• Standards
• Tom Hanrahan
• Windows Server

Microsoft Releases Device Driver Code to the Linux Community

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

• Monday, July 20, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

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

• Wednesday, February 27, 2008
• in: Server Center
• Sam Ramji

Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

by MichaelF on August 13, 2007

I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others on Linux and Windows interoperability. Overall our focus is on three critical technology areas for the next-generation datacenter: virtualization... more

• Monday, August 13, 2007
• in: Server Center
• MichaelF