Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December.  In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses.   You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly when you compare this to the 40,000 or so Windows downloads of PHP ...

At last week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, product previews and announcements, particularly of Windows Azure, Windows 7 and Visual Studio Team System 2010, generated a lot of buzz.  Throughout the week, an important undercurrent to that story was Microsoft's engagement with the open source community and its support ...

We’ve announced this week the opening of the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   With this announcement we can now talk about the work that’s been underway at the lab since the beginning of summer. The lab itself is well equipped.  It consists of 2500 square feet and contains over 80 ...

I’ve been a regular attendee of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland and Linux World Expo – San Francisco for several years, but this is the first time I represented Microsoft at them.  Between the two conferences, I met a lot of people with whom I’ve worked for many years.  I appreciate the encouraging ...