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  • 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: Microsoft at DrupalCon Munich

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations As part of ongoing collaborations with Drupal , Microsoft is participating in this week’s DrupalCon in Munich. After partnering closely with the Drupal community to make Drupal available on Windows , tomorrow’s sessions...
    on21 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Open in the Cloud: Meet Windows Azure

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations In the cloud, openness is paramount for our customers. Microsoft is committed to giving customers the ability to transition to the cloud on their terms, navigating the path to cloud computing with a unique combination of technology...
    on7 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

  • Blog Post: Teaming Up to Support OData: Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Progress Software, SAP, & WSO2

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations There is a vast amount of data available today that is being collected and stored at an unprecedented rate. Market demand is growing for easy access to this data across multiple platforms and devices. The move to cloud computing...
    on30 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Customers Say Microsoft is “Open” for Business

    Posted by James Utzschneider General Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Microsoft has changed as a company and become more open. This includes building interoperability into our core products that span office productivity and collaboration, cross-platform systems management, and security...
    on24 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group I’m excited to be at the Open Source Business Conference today and to announce that in collaboration with SUSE , and based on our longstanding alliance , we are releasing a beta version of the SUSE Manager Management Pack for System...
    on21 May 2012

  • Blog Post: OpenStack + Hyper-V

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group Two weeks ago the OpenStack community announced the release of Essex . I want to congratulate the community on reaching this key milestone. Microsoft is working with the OpenStack community to restore and enhance Windows Server Hyper-V support...
    on18 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Hotmail for the Kindle Fire

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations We’re getting a little love for tweaking a version of Hotmail specifically for the Kindle Fire, announced this week. Kindle Fire users can now enjoy the familiar benefits of Hotmail. Mary-Jo Foley at ZDNet’s “All...
    on26 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Collaboration with Open Source Partners Leads to Streamlined, Affordable Cloud

    Posted by Matt Theodores General Manager, Marketing Strategy, Open Solutions Group Yesterday Microsoft announced a significant milestone in its cloud computing strategy and solutions: the availability of System Center 2012 Release Candidate (RC), which customers can start using now to build private...
    on18 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Kinect: The Openness of an Invisible Technology

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations A recent Computer World story described how Microsoft has evolved to discover the virtues of openness . The article touched on one of my favorite examples of openness: Kinect. You may know how Kinect has captivated millions...
    on16 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and Openness: You May be Surprised Too

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Bill Toulas of OSArena interviewed Microsoft's Brian Swan, PHP Developer Advocate and was surprised to learn about Microsoft’s openness efforts and the many projects across Microsoft that improve interoperability between...
    on13 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and AgreeYa Mobility: Working Together to Address Demands of IT Consumerization

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group As part of the ongoing dialogue we have with our enterprise IT customers at Microsoft, we’re hearing more and more about the interoperability demands stemming from the consumerization of IT. This rising trend isn’t just about...
    on29 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Keeping it Real in a Virtual World: Interop Collaboration Continues in the Cloud

    Posted by Frank Rego Senior Product Manager for SUSE and Fabio Cavalcanti da Cunha, Technical Product Manager at Microsoft In November 2006, Microsoft and Novell signed an interoperability agreement and an innovative laboratory concept was created -- a place where architects and developers from both...
    on15 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft supports the creation of OpenNebula clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group Today I would like to share some encouraging news about work we have underway with OpenNebula to support continued innovation and interoperability in the cloud – Windows Server Hyper-V is now an officially supported hypervisor for OpenNebula...
    on26 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Mixed Source Collaboration with Leading Chinese Linux Company Fuels Cloud Innovation

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group A common truth in this industry is that emerging markets often leapfrog mature ones when it comes to adopting new business models and technologies. One example that illustrates this well is cloud computing in China. Cloud-based infrastructure...
    on22 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft – SUSE 2.0

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group I’m happy to share news today that Microsoft has formally extended the strategic Windows-Linux interoperability collaboration we previously had with Novell to SUSE . I personally am excited by the prospect of SUSE’s newfound...
    on25 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Standards 101: Understanding the importance of open standards

    Posted by Gregg Brown Senior Director, Interoperability Group I’m Gregg Brown, and I work with Craig Shank and Steve Mutkoski in the Interoperability Group at Microsoft. As my colleagues pointed out, collaboration, competition and consumer trust are important to effective standards, and transparency...
    on8 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Supercomputing, Fraunhofer SCAI and Openness

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group This past week I had the pleasure of participating in the International Supercomputing (ISC) 2011 event in Hamburg, Germany. This event has always been a great venue for hearing the latest trends in high performance computing (HPC) and the...
    on27 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Standards 101: Openness and choice are crucial

    Posted by Steve Mutkoski Senior Standards Strategist As Craig Shank mentioned in a post last week, standards are an important part of a dynamic ICT marketplace, fostering interoperability, collaboration, competition and consumer trust. I’d like to follow up on that post, highlighting the fact...
    on27 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: A Look Back and a Look Forward: Meeting Customer Needs Remains the Secret to Our Success

    Posted by Geoff Sullivan Managing Sales Director, Open Solutions Group Many people are surprised when they hear how much progress Microsoft and Novell have made in their efforts around Linux/Windows interoperability. When we announced our ground breaking agreement in November 2006, there was no shortage...
    on18 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Where is the puck moving next? Working with Hosters to deliver Cloud

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Strategy, Open Solutions Group I know I am not the only one that often spends time thinking about where the puck is going next; wondering about how the industry is going to work together to anticipate tomorrow's challenges in serving up the cloud. After spending...
    on11 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Standards that open doors: Interoperability, collaboration, competition and consumer benefits in the standards system

    Posted by Craig Shank General Manager, Interoperability & Standards I’m Craig Shank, and I work in Microsoft’s Interoperability Group. In addition to our work on standards and interoperability across Microsoft’s product teams and with stakeholders in the industry worldwide, we...
    on6 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Open Solutions

    Posted by Ted MacLean General Manager, Open Solutions Group Companies around the world are starting to think about developing and launching cloud strategies, and one of the critical elements for success that they’re identifying is interoperability between technologies and products from multiple...
    on30 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Are you open or closed?

    Posted by James Utzschneider General Manager, Sales, Marketing and Services Group My name is James Utzschneider, and I work in Microsoft’s Sales, Marketing, and Services Group leading a team responsible for worldwide marketing efforts around open source and emerging technologies. Today we are...
    on25 Jan 2011
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