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  • Blog Post: Northwest Open Source Hackathon: Making Open Source Projects on Windows Easier

    Posted by Garrett Serack Senior Software Developer, Microsoft Open Source Technology Center This past Friday, developers filled the room for Outercurve’s first annual Northwest Open Source Hackathon. With a special focus on the recent NuGet 2.5 release , the event brought together developers...
    on15 May 2013

  • Blog Post: Open Door Policy: Interview with Outercurve’s Sam Ramji

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Open Door Policy is a new series on the Openness blog that profiles industry thought leaders and individuals within Microsoft who are leading efforts to collaborate more openly, promoting interoperability and making it easier...
    on10 May 2013

  • Blog Post: WebMatrix 3 Now Available: Publish Cloud-Based Web Sites and Open Source Apps

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations This week the Windows Azure team released WebMatrix 3 , the current version of the popular free web development tool, which includes support for popular open source apps and the ability to publish your site to the Cloud using...
    on3 May 2013

  • Blog Post: Today’s NuGet 2.5 and CoApp Releases Make Open Source Projects on Windows Easier

    Posted by Garrett Serack Senior Software Developer, Microsoft Open Source Technology Center Hundreds of thousands of open source applications run on Windows today, but a lot of open source software can still be hard to find and deploy on Windows because many developers work on projects independently...
    on26 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Join Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. for an Anniversary Celebration

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations What do Microsoft and open source have in common? More than you may think, unless you’ve already been following the work of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech), since the wholly owned subsidiary was created...
    on23 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Dropbox Support Added to Windows Azure Web Sites

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Windows Azure Web Sites allows you to quickly deploy sites with support for multiple frameworks and popular open source applications to a highly scalable cloud environment. The recent updates to Windows Azure added Dropbox to...
    on4 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Spotlight on Microsoft Research: Opening a Door to Big Data - Try F#

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations F# is an open source, cross-platform programming language for writing simple code to solve complex problems. From a business perspective, the primary role of F# is to reduce the time-to-deployment for analytical software components...
    on28 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Spotlight on Microsoft Research: Elevating Scientific Data into the Cloud with Windows Azure & OSS

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations The key to unlocking future predictions has generally always been some type of data. Today, with the ever-increasing storage and computational capabilities of the cloud, combined with the sheer number of devices available to...
    on19 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and Windows Azure Head to….the Home of “Middle Earth!”

    Posted by Thiago Almeida Technical Evangelist, Microsoft New Zealand Spreading the good word about Openness at Microsoft (check out our updated website!) and Windows Azure can take us far and wide, but we didn’t expect to find ourselves in the middle of Middle Earth. Let me explain… ...
    on18 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Open Source Frameworks Unveil Support for Windows Phone 8

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Last week’s //build/ 2012 conference highlighted how developers can take advantage of their existing skills and favorite languages and frameworks to extend their market reach and bring great apps to the Windows 8 platform...
    on6 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft at Open World Forum 2012

    Posted by Frédéric Aatz Director of Interoperability, Microsoft France Alfonso Castro Director of Strategic Partnerships, Microsoft Open Solutions Group Last week we were fortunate to participate in Open World Forum , a leading global summit focused on how we’re collectively...
    on17 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: TypeScript: A New Open and Interoperable Programming Language

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations In addition to supporting industry-standard languages like C++, Python, and JavaScript, Microsoft has always been at the forefront of creating great programming languages – Visual Basic, C#, and F# being the recent examples...
    on15 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Spotlight on Microsoft Research: Improving Scientific Data Sharing and Management

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager – Worldwide Marketing and Operations The absent-minded professor is an exaggerated movie cliché. But like most clichés, it does have a kernel of truth within it – namely that people who are absolutely brilliant in one area are often less...
    on2 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Publish Open Source Apps and Cloud-Based Sites with WebMatrix V2

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager – Worldwide Marketing and Operations WebMatrix V2 was released to web earlier this month, including support for popular open source apps and the ability to publish your site to the Cloud using Windows Azure Web Sites . WebMatrix is a free and open web...
    on28 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: OSS 2012 Tunisia: Microsoft, Open Source and the Cloud

    Posted by Mark Gayler Open Software Lead This week I had the privilege to join some of the world’s top open source researchers in Tunisia at OSS 2012 to discuss how Microsoft is collaborating with open source projects and initiatives worldwide and investing in support for open source solutions...
    on14 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: SkyDrive for Android Phones Now Available

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Yesterday Android joined the family of SkyDrive apps available for mobile devices. This extends SkyDrive ’s commitment to delivering personal cloud storage that’s available anywhere – via any modern web browser...
    on29 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: OASIS OData Initiative Making Progress

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-based open web protocol for unlocking and sharing data, freeing it from silos that exist in some software applications today. The OASIS international consortium has launched a new initiative...
    on27 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Teaming Up with Citrix to Support FreeBSD on Windows Server Hyper-V

    Posted by Anandeep Pannu Senior Program Manager, Open Source Technical Center Yesterday on the blog, we announced that FreeBSD support is now ready and available for Windows Server Hyper-V users. Thanks to the diligent work by our partners Citrix and NetApp , who together helped us contribute some...
    on10 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Available Today: FreeBSD Support for Windows Server Hyper-V

    Posted by Anandeep Pannu Senior Program Manager – Open Source Technical Center Today, Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix are excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD support for Windows Server Hyper-V. This collaboration , announced at BSDCAN 2012 , will help more customers adopt...
    on9 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Spotlight on Microsoft Research: MSR Partners with USC and Brown University to Raise AIDS Awareness with Digital AIDS Quilt 2012

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations In addition to covering big data’s impact worldwide, last week’s 2012 Faculty Summit also explored how modern technology can work to help raise greater awareness about social issues such as the impact of AIDS and...
    on25 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft’s CoApp: Making Open Source Projects on Windows Easier

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Today marks the start of the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. Among the Microsoft attendees that will be onsite at this year’s event is Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center. Garrett...
    on16 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Open Source in the Cloud: Microsoft at Solutions Linux and Open Source 2012

    Posted by Frédéric Aatz Director of Interoperability, Microsoft France Over the course of the three-day Solutions Linux and Open Source conference in Paris, I had the opportunity to answer the question “what is Microsoft’s role here?”, particularly as customers transition...
    on9 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and The Open Group Release Open Management Infrastructure

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Datacenters comprise a slew of heterogeneous devices supplied by different hardware and platform vendors and requiring different tools and management processes. Companies are forced to write their own abstraction layer or to...
    on28 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Key Partners Open Up the Cloud with Windows Azure

    Posted by James Utzschneider General Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Yesterday, customers had the opportunity to meet Windows Azure and learn more about services in the technical preview that make Windows Azure an even more flexible, open, and powerful cloud platform. The openness and...
    on8 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Windows Server Hyper-V drivers now supported in Ubuntu

    Posted by Geoff Sullivan Managing Sales Director, Open Solutions Group As you may have heard , the recently released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been engineered with the drivers needed to run on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We are pleased to support customers running Ubuntu on Hyper-V in their virtualized...
    on1 Jun 2012
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