Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

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More Mac-Windows Collaboration

Microsoft plans to release new Macintosh software later this year, known as Document Collaboration Companion, that will allow users of Office 2008 for Mac to work with both Office for Windows and Office for Mac colleagues. This collaboration will be through...

Wednesday, January 07, 2009
in: Community
Peter Galli

DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex

DotNetNuke Corporation, the creator of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework , has decided to leverage the CodePlex infrastructure for its core product distribution . DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for download infrastructure, bandwidth...

Wednesday, January 07, 2009
in: Community
Peter Galli

What's Microsoft up to with PHP?

Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up its participation in initiatives supporting Free and Open Source Software projects like Apache, Samba , and PHP . The company has also been working more closely with the PHP community, sponsoring PHP events...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009
in: Community
Peter Galli

Microsoft Details Support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2

Microsoft has released documentation that details the implementation of the Open Document Format in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is available at no cost on the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) Web site . This, along with the soon-to-be...

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
in: Community
Peter Galli

MindTouch, Microsoft, and Social Enterprise Collaboration

In this, our second video filmed at an open source company, the spotlight falls on MindTouch , whose Deki Wiki enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. The first video talked to developers...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
in: Community
Peter Galli

Eclipse4SL Release Candidate Hits the Streets

The feature complete Release Candidate for Eclipse4SL , an open source, feature-rich RIA application development environment for Microsoft Silverlight in Eclipse, has been released, and can be downloaded here . This new and important milestone includes...

Monday, December 15, 2008
in: Community
Peter Galli

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......

Friday, October 13, 2006
in: Server Center
MichaelF

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....

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others...

Monday, August 13, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

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...

Thursday, May 24, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins? Interview with Ian Gilman and Thoughts on 10 Months at Microsoft

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

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
in: Media
hjanssen

Mindtouch: Deki, OSS and Windows

by jcannon on July 16, 2008

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... more

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
in: Server Center
jcannon

Is High Performance Computing naturally Open Source (ie. for tinkerers)?

by anandeep on June 18, 2008

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.... more

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
in: Server Center
anandeep

Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

by jcannon on June 17, 2008

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... more

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
in: Server Center
jcannon

Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
in: Server Center
jcannon

Technical Analysis: OpenSSH on Linux using Windows/Kerberos for Authentication

Friday, June 06, 2008
in: Server Center
jcannon

Technical Analysis: VIM, PowerShell and Signed Code

Thursday, May 29, 2008
in: Server Center
jcannon

Managing Towards Open

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
in: Server Center
Sam Ramji

PHP on Windows

Tuesday, March 04, 2008
in: Dev Center
hjanssen

Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support

by MichaelF on October 13, 2006

Friday, October 13, 2006
in: Server Center
MichaelF

Windows Vista Beta/Linux IPsec Interop Testing

by MichaelF on May 09, 2007

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

by MichaelF on August 13, 2007

Monday, August 13, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

Data Recovery Using Linux

Thursday, May 24, 2007
in: Server Center
MichaelF

MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install

Friday, March 16, 2007
in: Server Center
jcannon

How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
in: Server Center
Sam Ramji

Technical Lab Analysis: ISC DHCP

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
in: Server Center
jcannon

Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
in: Server Center
Community Contributor

SMB2: a Complete Redesign of the Main Remote File Protocol for Windows

by Peter Galli on December 08, 2008

SMB (Server Message Block) is a remote file protocol commonly used by Microsoft Windows clients and servers that dates back to 1980's. Back when it was first used, LANs speeds were typically 10Mbps or less, WAN use was very limited and there were no Wireless... more

Monday, December 08, 2008
in: Community
Peter Galli

Microsoft at AJAXWorld

by Peter Galli on October 20, 2008

The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo got underway in San Jose today, under the broad theme of "Rich Web Technologies for Enterprise Web 2.0 & Social Web." Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, delivered the keynote address today, while... more

Monday, October 20, 2008
in: Community
Peter Galli

CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN

by jcannon on September 16, 2008

From our very own Sara Ford , word comes of Codeplex now offering server support for SvnBridge . SvnBridge enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server. From Sara, "Support for Subversion has been our number one requested feature, and by hosting... more

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
in: Dev Center
jcannon

Featured Project: Family.Show on Codeplex

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
in: Dev Center
jcannon

Code Parallel or Die, Part 2

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
in: Dev Center
Frank Chism

Code Parallel or Die

Monday, April 14, 2008
in: Dev Center
Frank Chism

Supernova

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
in: Dev Center
Sam Ramji

PHP on Windows

Tuesday, March 04, 2008
in: Dev Center
hjanssen

HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS

by admin on June 14, 2006

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... more

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
in: Dev Center
admin

MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install

by jcannon on March 16, 2007

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... more

Friday, March 16, 2007
in: Server Center
jcannon

Featured Project: Family.Show on Codeplex

by jcannon on May 27, 2008

Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show... more

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
in: Dev Center
jcannon

PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer

Thursday, February 22, 2007
in: Dev Center
MichaelF

John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Funding

Thursday, August 10, 2006
in: Media
MichaelF

Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

Friday, August 11, 2006
in: Media
MichaelF

Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support

Monday, April 30, 2007
in: Community
MichaelF

Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam

Monday, April 30, 2007
in: Community
MichaelF

Sam chats with Bitrock on Open Source Installation and Package Management

by Sam Ramji on November 09, 2007

Sam recently interviewed Daniel Lopez, Founder and CTO and Erica Brescia, CEO of Bitrock from their Spain headquarters. Daniel and Erica discuss their experiences and challenges developing open source applications and launching the BitNami project.... more

Friday, November 09, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

Allison Randal on Participation & Motivation

by Sam Ramji on October 25, 2007

We're excited to post Sam's discussion with Allison Randal that took place at this year's OSCON event in Portland, OR. Allison discusses the importance of particpation in the open source community and her perspective on Microsoft.... more

Thursday, October 25, 2007
in: Community
Sam Ramji

Eclipse Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, Talks with Sam

by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007

Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history... more

Thursday, October 18, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

Haskell in the Hallway: Sam Interviews Simon Peyton Jones

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
in: Community
Sam Ramji

Barton George interviews Sam Ramji

Thursday, August 30, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

Justin Steinman and Sam Ramji on the Novell/Microsoft Partnership

Friday, August 03, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

Hyperic: Java-based Cross-platform Management

Friday, June 15, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

Samba, IPv6 and Windows/Linux Interoperability: Sam interviews Dr. David Holder

Thursday, May 31, 2007
in: Media
Sam Ramji

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

John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Funding

by MichaelF on August 10, 2006

The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor...... more

Thursday, August 10, 2006
in: Media
MichaelF

Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

by MichaelF on August 11, 2006

In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME... more