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Friday April 25, 2008 in: Community by: Bryan Kirschner with 1 comment(s)

Open Source Day + 30 …

The same week that Brad Smith (Microsoft’s General Counsel) keynoted at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) , we held our first Microsoft-wide Open Source Day (which Jamie and Mario both blogged about). We all noticed folks expressed interest in...more

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    Open Source Day + 30 …
    by Bryan Kirschner on April 25, 2008

    The same week that Brad Smith (Microsoft’s General Counsel) keynoted at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) , we held our first Microsoft-wide Open Source Day (which Jamie and Mario both blogged about). We all noticed folks expressed interest in... more

    • Friday, April 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Code Parallel or Die
    by Frank Chism on April 14, 2008

    “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” - Luke in “Cool Hand Luke” A fist full of cores in a server rich environment. If you haven’t noticed that the world has changed, you had better wake up and smell the coffee. The era of killer apps written... more

    • Monday, April 14, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Frank Chism
    MVP Summit Ruby Meetup
    by jcannon on April 14, 2008

    John Lam brings word of a Ruby meet-up at the MVP Summit happening today at 2PM at the International Meeting Place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Quote John: "I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There... more

    • Monday, April 14, 2008
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    A funny thing happened on the way to ApacheCon
    by Garrett Serack on April 10, 2008

    Back in January, I invited the Apache Software Foundation to attend the Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Labs, here on our campus in Redmond. The week that Apache was here, was so valuable for both groups--the product groups got to see and... more

    • Thursday, April 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Garrett Serack
    Putting our own House in Order....
    by MJM on April 04, 2008

    Jamie blogged about Open Source Day earlier this week . I’d like to provide a little more context about what the day was and why we did it. About 6 months ago, our team was discussing the fact that, while many external people understand what Microsoft... more

    We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins? Interview with Ian Gilman and Thoughts on 10 Months at Microsoft
    by hjanssen on February 28, 2007

    Hank Interviews Photosynth Developer Ian Gilman and shares his thoughts after 10 months at Microsoft...... more

    • Wednesday, February 28, 2007
    • in: Media
    • hjanssen
    Inside the OSS Lab
    by SteveZ on March 20, 2008

    To some folks outside of Microsoft, the Open-Source Software Lab has been a sort of mysterious place. A place where we study Linux and open-source software, cursing our enemies while brewing our malevolent plans to combat those nasty FOSS developers.... more

    • Thursday, March 20, 2008
    • in: Community
    • SteveZ
    Open Source at Microsoft
    by billhilf on July 26, 2007

    Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft’s position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft, the OSS community and the interaction between the two. The new site also details information about getting started with OSS and Microsoft technologies. We'll... more

    • Thursday, July 26, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability
    by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008

    First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more

    • Wednesday, February 27, 2008
    • in: Server Center
    • Community Contributor
    Port 25 Contributors
    by jcannon on March 18, 2006

    So who are these guys?... more

    • Saturday, March 18, 2006
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
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