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Microsoft Participation at ApacheCon 2008

grantkd — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:58:00 GMT

Last week, Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, presented a keynote at ApacheCon 2008. In his presentation, he updated Apache community members on several milestones recently reached by Microsoft as part of the Company’s efforts to architect for participation in the open source community.

Ramji further outlined the benefits that the newly announced “M” programming language will deliver to open source developers. Microsoft unveiled M Language recently at PDC 2008, highlighting the “Oslo” set of modeling technologies, and the commitment Microsoft has made to include the “M” programming language under the Open Specification Promise. In his speech, Sam said that he expects “M to do for languages what open source has done for development”, and encouraged the Apache community to learn more about it.

Another highlight was related to Microsoft’s recent decision to join the AMQP Working Group at the request of its members. Ramji outlined Microsoft’s intent to also participate in the Apache Qpid project, a widely adopted open source implementation of the AMQP specification that addresses the customer need for choice and improved messaging interoperability.

He also told the audience that the Microsoft Network Monitor - a free protocol analyzer and network sniffer - will transition to an open source model, on CodePlex. It will host the development of parsers for public protocols and for protocols described in the Open Protocol Specifications for Windows.

For more information, please visit:

http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/11/06/apachecon-keynote.aspx

Oslo at PDC 2008

grantkd — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:15:00 GMT

Oslo, a set of technical investments that simplify designing, building, managing, and scaling service-oriented and composite applications, is the focus of several PDC sessions this year. Visit this site to learn more about the Oslo modeling platform and what it will do for application development. For an entertaining version of the history of modeling, and to hear industry influencers weigh in on Oslo and what it will mean for developers, click here.

TechEd 2008 Developers: News from the frontlines

grantkd — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Today, at Tech Ed 2008 Developers in Orlando, FL Bill Gates delivered a keynote address in which he reflected on the company’s 33-year history with developers and shared his predictions for the future of application development. He also made several product-related announcements that build on Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, and demonstrate how the company’s integrated toolset and platform help developers build rich, interactive applications from the Web to the desktop, work in heterogeneous environments and much more. The announcements include the following:

· Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) beta 2 will be available this August in 20 languages worldwide.

· Availability this week of Silverlight 2 beta 2, with a commercial Go Live license

· IBM and Microsoft have agreed to work together to integrate IBM DB2 database access with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition.

· Multiple partner wins and the latest community technology preview (CTP) of the Microsoft Sync Framework.

· The first CTP of the Microsoft project code-named “Velocity,” a distributed, in-memory application cache platform.

· Ongoing momentum for Microsoft code-name “Oslo.”

· A new version of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 v1.2.

To read the press release, view the full Bill Gates keynote, and get more information about the event, visit the Tech Ed 2008 Virtual Press Room at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/default.mspx

More information on today’s announcements can be found on these blogs:

S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/

Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

The Data Platform Insider: http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/

Steven Martin, Director of Product Management, Connected Systems Division: http://blogs.msdn.com/stevemar/default.aspx

Visit TechEd Online for more on the 2008 Developers Conference.