by Peter Galli on November 17, 2009
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, used the company's annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles to announce the availability of the Windows Azure platform . That platform consists of Windows Azure, the operating system... more
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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 24, 2009
GroundWork Open Source, Inc., a commercial open source company that produces network management software, last week announced the availability of the GroundWork Connector for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager... more
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by Peter Galli on August 10, 2009
Jason Perlow, a columnist over at ZDNet, has written a comprehensive review on virtualizing free Linux distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2. In his Tech Broiler column, Perlow notes that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer... 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 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 Peter Galli on October 27, 2008
It's all about developers, all the time - well, at least for the next week here in Los Angeles at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. The first day of the show started off with an opening keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who welcomed... more
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by MichaelF on February 20, 2007
Just a quick note to let Port 25 readers know that yesterday Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 as a free download...... more
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by MichaelF on October 06, 2006
In the IT industry it is axiomatic that whatever is new will be old, and will then be new again! Consider the “Service Bureau” approach that was used in the mainframe days, in which an organization’s computing needs were taken care of by a “Service Bureau” that maintained the infrastructure, served up the applications and provided the support for the users. The Service Bureau typically served many... more
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by MichaelF on August 22, 2006
Just returning from Linux World in San Francisco, and virtualization was once again the topic du jour. A lot of you outside of the technology vendor-sphere (where we like to speak in weird acronyms and corporate buzzwords), might wonder why Microsoft and many others can’t stop talking about virtualization...... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
By now, many of you have seen the Xensource announcement released today. If not, I reccomend checking it out. It describes Microsoft’s partnership with Xensource (www.xensource.com). For those who do not know anything about the technology and what they would use it for, I will give a brief description. Many years ago when processors where not so fast, memory was expensive and general computing hardware... more
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