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Friday July 18, 2008 in: Community by: Bryan Kirschner

Participate08

On July 21 I will have the honor and pleasure of being the sponsor, host, and an active participant in participate08 . participate08 is a one-day summit held in coordination with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference(OSCON). It is designed to facilitate...more

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    Participate08

    On July 21 I will have the honor and pleasure of being the sponsor, host, and an active participant in participate08 . participate08 is a one-day summit held in coordination with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference(OSCON). It is designed to facilitate...

    • Friday, July 18, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Mindtouch: Deki, OSS and Windows

    Our community knows that open source businesses are important to Microsoft. Nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that open source was a key theme in the recent Windows Server 2008 Launch. You can read more about that here . One of the individuals...

    Sandcastle Redux

    I am very pleased to announce that the Microsoft SandCastle project team has reconfirmed its strong support for the Ms-PL and is preparing to release all source code for the Sandcastle project immediately. This was a non-trivial effort and I applaud them...

    • Wednesday, July 02, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    CodePlex project developers wanted

    I would like to invite CodePlex developers to participate in research. If you have been reading my blog posts here on Port25, then you will know that I have been investigating how to integrate usability into open source software development. Now I am...

    • Monday, June 30, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Paula Bach
    Is High Performance Computing naturally Open Source (ie. for tinkerers)?

    I have always been fascinated by clusters. Some people envision working with desktops or workstations when they think of “working with computers”. For me working with computers was always with a large collection of computers in a back room somewhere....

    Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

    Abstract : Microsoft Terminal Services provides an important set of functionality for remote administration and centralized application management. This service allows administrators to log in remotely and with full access to the system. Similarly, users...

    Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox

    I am very proud to announce that we have released another official Microsoft plug-in. It shows another level of interoperability and eagerness in working with the Community to get this released... ...

    • Monday, April 16, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • hjanssen
    Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support

    Today we are introducing Cyril Voisin, Security Advisor for Microsoft in France who shares his insights on booting Linux with Vista's boot manager and building a dual boot system with Windows Vista BitLocker protection with TPM Support......

    Windows Vista Beta/Linux IPsec Interop Testing

    This document provides an overview of LInux IPsec solutions as well as detailed discussions on configuring IPsec-Tools for interoperability scenarios between Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 and Windows Vista Ultimate Beta....

    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as...

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes...

    Data Recovery Using Linux

    It's happened to me and I'm sure it has happened to you: your software won't load and your data is now trapped inside your PC. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux...

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