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    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool
    by Peter Galli on November 20, 2009

    As you know, Microsoft recently committed to making the source code as well as binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available this week, under the terms of the General Public License v2 as described here . While we worked extremely hard to try and... more

    • Friday, November 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released
    by Peter Galli on November 19, 2009

    The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production... more

    • Thursday, November 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Silverlight 4 Beta Hits the Street
    by Peter Galli on November 18, 2009

    The beta for Silverlight 4 was released today, Scott Guthrie, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, told attendees at the annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. The final verison of the product will be shipped... more

    • Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    PDC 2009: Availability of the Windows Azure Platform
    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

    • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework
    by Peter Galli on November 16, 2009

    I have great news to announce. Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making... more

    • Monday, November 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool
    by Peter Galli on November 13, 2009

    As you've likely read and as was originally reported here , we've been investigating a report that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, might contain GPLv2 code. The WUDT is a free tool that was offered by the Microsoft Store and which enabled customers... more

    • Friday, November 13, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Team Microsoft Sings "Them Incubator Blues" at ApacheCon
    by Peter Galli on November 12, 2009

    As you probably know, Microsoft was both a sponsor and active participant at ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland, California last week. But what you might not know is that we also showed our lighter, more fun side, when we participated in the Lightning Talks, which... more

    • Thursday, November 12, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft and Novell: Three Years and Going Strong
    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

    • Monday, November 09, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The Business of Open Source
    by Sandy Gupta on November 05, 2009

    I am blogging from ApacheCon here in Oakland, where the Apache Software Foundation its celebrating its 10 th anniversary . Congratulations to the Apache community and cheers to the next ten! Our focus at Microsoft is to make Windows Server a platform... more

    • Thursday, November 05, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Microsoft and ApacheCon 2009
    by Peter Galli on November 03, 2009

    This week marks the 10 th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, which is being celebrated at the annual ApacheCon U.S. event. Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of both the ASF and ApacheCon 2009 . The Apache community is an important... more

    • Tuesday, November 03, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    A Chat With Apache Software Foundation President Justin Erenkrantz
    by Peter Galli on November 02, 2009

    This week the Apache Software Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at its annual U.S. ApacheCon 2009 event in Oakland. As such, I though it would be interesting to chat with ASF President Justin Erenkrantz about the past 10 years and what's still... more

    • Monday, November 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Moving Forward With Eclipse
    by Sandy Gupta on October 27, 2009

    It is great to see the work that started last year with the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, California continues its exciting journey. Today at the Eclipse Summit in Germany, the Interoperability team at Microsoft announced a number... more

    • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Roadmap Announced for Outlook Personal Folders Documentation
    by Peter Galli on October 26, 2009

    Great news on the data portability front: today, Microsoft announced that it will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format - the format in which data is stored in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders. Even better is the fact that the documentation... more

    • Monday, October 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Part 2: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 20, 2009

    In my first post for this series, I stated that "Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their website" and "not designing the full 100% is a true blessing in disguise." By putting... more

    • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Part 1: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 19, 2009

    Before I became the Program Manager for CodePlex.com, Microsoft's open source project hosting site, I worked on the Visual Studio team on four different product cycles ... I had to learn about Agile development alongside learning about open source development when I joined the CodePlex.com team... more

    • Monday, October 19, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
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