by Peter Galli on February 01, 2010
Great news about the .Net Micro Framework, which Microsoft announced in November was being open sourced and made available under the Apache 2.0 license. The community development site has just been launched, which is focused on supporting the collaborative development of the Framework. "This site is designed to be open just like our product is. There are lots of ways that you can use this site directly... more
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by Peter Galli on January 28, 2010
Zend Technologies today released the Zend Framework 1.10, the latest version of its open source PHP web application framework, which includes support for Windows Azure cloud services - a project that was started last year when Microsoft announced the Windows Azure SDK for PHP CTP release and upcoming support in Zend Framework. Developers can now use the new Zend_Service_WindowsAzure component contributed... more
- Thursday, January 28, 2010
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by Peter Galli on January 23, 2010
The CodePlex team announced last night that it now supports Mercurial , a distributed source control management system. New projects created on CodePlex.com will now be able to use either Team Foundation Server or Mercurial as the source control repository . Current project owners who want to switch to Mercurial can do so by contacting CodePlex Support with the project name, and the team will gladly... more
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by Peter Galli on January 14, 2010
The Canadian City of Edmonton has become the first North American city to use Microsoft's Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) solution, and is working with the company to develop the region's first public open data catalogue , an online site that will give citizens and developers easier and more transparent access to information and allow them to develop new solutions and suggest ideas that enhance... more
- Thursday, January 14, 2010
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by Peter Galli on December 18, 2009
In case you missed this, Moonlight 2 is now available. Moonlight is the open source Linux implementation of Silverlight, which was first announced by Microsoft and Novell in September of 2007. Moonlight is the only open source project that provides Linux users access to Silverlight content, and Microsoft has provided Novell with access to its test suites for Silverlight as well as giving Linux end... more
- Friday, December 18, 2009
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by Peter Galli on December 09, 2009
I am very pleased to announce that Microsoft today released the Open Sourced Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) under the GPLv2. As we previously explained, the testing and localization took longer than we expected, but the project is now hosted on CodePlex.com, Microsoft's Open Source software project hosting repository, and the code can be found here . The tool can also now be downloaded from... more
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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 get the code ready for release by today, we still need to test and localize it. Our goal is now to release the tool in all languages on the same day in... more
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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-ready release that is provided under an open source BSD license , with the source code hosted and maintained here , and the documentation hosted... more
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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 in the first half of 2010, he said, noting that the release of the beta means that developers can begin testing the capabilities of Silverlight... more
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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 as-a-service, and SQL Azure, a fully relational database in the cloud. The Service Bus and Access Control services, formerly known as the .NET Services... more
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