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by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009 08:48pm Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime available under the Apache 2.0   open source license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform...

by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009 06:52pm CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting Web site, has grown by leaps and bounds over the past calendar year. Visits to the Website more than doubled to top 19-million in 2008, while new registered users were up more than 70 percent to over 66,000 and...

by Peter Galli on January 19, 2009 02:00pm As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge incubator...

by Peter Galli on January 06, 2009 06:18pm 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...

by Peter Galli on December 09, 2008 01:40pm I'm on the road with Robert Duffner, our Senior Director of Platform Strategy, talking to tech press in New York, Boston and San Francisco this week. So, imagine my surprise when top Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley ran an article about a new open source content...

by anandeep on November 29, 2008 05:55pm As I stated in my last blog,  I am attending the premier Indian Open Source conference, FOSS.IN , in Bangalore.   This conference had some very technical talks (which I will also blog about) but, like any other Open source conference, it was the...

by Bryan Kirschner on October 28, 2008 01:33pm The city of Matsue, Japan is using Ruby to promote regional economic development . One of the unexpected highlights of the recent GOSCON , was a gentleman from Matsue coming up to me after I had given my talk about open source and Microsoft and saying "I...

by Peter Galli on October 20, 2008 05:05pm 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...

by Sam Ramji on October 16, 2008 04:20pm It has been a month or so since the Codeplex announcement of server support for SVNBridge , which enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server, and the team is looking for feedback now this has been out for a while. I also recently interviewed Codeplex...

by Bryan Kirschner on October 14, 2008 06:57pm It is just two months since Microsoft finalized the acquisition of Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset's goals are to "change the way humans interact with computers through language "- improving search by indexing...

by Peter Galli on October 13, 2008 12:18pm When I began reporting on Microsoft for eWeek (part of the Ziff Davis Enterprise stable of publications) in 2000, I never imagined that I would one day end up working for the software giant. And, to be quite honest, for the longest time I really did not want...

by jcannon on October 10, 2008 06:11pm When I began my journey with technology, it was with a passion for the web.  Living off a friend’s T1 line, I was hacking together HTML when Mosaic was the only show in town. I’m returning to that love of the web next week where I’ll be moving to a new position...

by jcannon on September 16, 2008 03:24pm 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 SvnBridge...

by Paula Bach on August 18, 2008 05:57pm I have blogged previously about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Now I want to turn to disciplinary chasms in software development. Social aspects such as how people communicate, collaborate, and coordinate interest me because as Andy Begel in...

by Sam Ramji on July 25, 2008 06:16am I’m writing this from Portland, Oregon where one of the world’s largest Open Source conferences is taking place: OSCON.  This year’s event is focused on a theme of “ten years of open source,” referring to 1998 as the year that Eric S. Raymond, Danese Cooper...

by Richard Wilder on July 25, 2008 06:15am I am the Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft, having joined the company about 9 months ago. My role is to work with a variety of constituencies inside the company and outside to help shape the approach we take to intellectual...

by Bryan Kirschner on July 23, 2008 04:39pm Now that we’ve had our first “participate” event in conjunction with OSCON here in Portland, I wanted to share a few thoughts. This was a great experience and a great event—or, really, two consecutive events, the morning case study...

by Bryan Kirschner on July 18, 2008 01:09pm On July 21 I will have the honor and pleasure of being the sponsor, host, and an active participant in participate08 . participate08 is a one-day summit held in coordination with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference(OSCON). It is designed to facilitate dialogue...

by jcannon on July 16, 2008 09:59pm 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 we highlighted...

by Sam Ramji on July 02, 2008 10:00am I am very pleased to announce that the Microsoft SandCastle project team has reconfirmed its strong support for the Ms-PL  and is preparing to release all source code for the Sandcastle project immediately.  This was a non-trivial effort and I applaud them...

by Paula Bach on June 30, 2008 12:14pm I would like to invite CodePlex developers to participate in research. If you have been reading my blog posts here on Port25, then you will know that I have been investigating how to integrate usability into open source software development. Now I am seeking research...

by anandeep on June 18, 2008 11:17am 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. ...

by jcannon on June 17, 2008 02:10pm 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 can...

by jcannon on June 11, 2008 11:22am Abstract : SSH has largely replaced Telnet for remote administration of UNIX and Linux systems, but has not yet been used much on Windows. SSH is generally considered to be more secure than Telnet and the Berkeley remote commands (rlogin, etc). This paper uses SSHWindows...

by Paula Bach on June 09, 2008 05:29pm I am back in Redmond. For those of you who don’t know, I spent last summer here in the open source software lab conducting research on integrating usability into open source. My last blog talked about how I have made some changes to my research program. One change...