Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Kishi Interviews Arne Josefsberg General Manager of Infrastructure Services in Windows Live Operations. He is responsible for the strategy, design and operation of the online infrastructure that forms the foundation for Microsoft’s online businesses.  His areas of responsibility include: global data centers, networks, hardware and ...

More Updates (8/1):OSCON Photo UpdateTim O'Reilly sits down with Bill Hilf at OSCON (Video)Bill Hilf interviws Matt Asay at OSCON  (Video)Mindtouch: Open Source approach to collaboration & Wikis (Video)Update, 7/25: We just wrapped up the O'Reilly Executive Day here at OSCON after two days of what many would call record ...

Hank just blogged about critical thinking.  If I had to state my own concise definition of what lies at the heart of critical thinking, it would be a personal commitment to finding the right solution to any problem, regardless of whether or not figuring it out and the subsequent implications are easy or comfortable (in practice, this usually ...

We've got a quick guest blog before the holiday weekend on a new set of interoperability tools released this week by Microsoft, and in conjunction with some very talented folks in our partner, sales & services group. Welcome Luis Camara Manoel, Program Manager for in Communications & Collaboration...take it away ...

Sam Interviews Sara Ford, former Computer Science and Mathematics double major and Shotokan Black Belt, to discuss Power Toys, Shared Source and CodePlex.  Sam Interviews Sara Ford, former Computer Science and Mathematics double major and Shotokan Black Belt, to discuss Power Toys, Shared Source and CodePlex.  Sara ...

Consider this scenario – the CIO’s office just called. They have decided to follow your recommendation and are going to use JBoss (substitute favorite open source software package here) as their application server (substitute database server/web server/whatever server here). They also decided to make it standard on both your Windows ...

Spam is a well-known problem for many on the Internet. If you have an email account anywhere, chances are you’ve gotten something you didn’t ask for; a “stock tip”, an adult entertainment solicitation, or possibly a plea from an altruistic member of the “[Random Nation] Royal Family” to assist in some friendly ...