Interoperability @ Microsoft
Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Using LucidWorks on Windows Azure (Part 3 of a multi-part MS Open Tech series)
LucidWorks Search on Windows Azure delivers a high-performance search service based on Apache...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/05/2013
Update on Standardization of Next Version of HTTP/2.0
From: Gabriel Montenegro Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Andrei Popov...
Author: Brian Raymor [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 04/03/2013
jQuery Adds Support for Windows Store Apps, Creates New Opportunities for JavaScript Open Source Developers
The popular open source JavaScript Web framework jQuery is adding full support for Windows Store...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 03/29/2013
Another milestone for open source cloud programming model ActorFx, more stability, async actor communication and more
Our team is making steady progress on building a solid framework for our new open source computing...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 03/26/2013
New CU-RTC-Web HTML5Labs Prototype from MS Open Tech Demonstrates Roaming between Cellular and Wi-Fi Connections
Demonstrating a faster mobility scenario that would be more difficult with the current WebRTC draft...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 03/14/2013
MS Open Tech develops the open source Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services
Furthering the goal of bridging Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, Microsoft Open...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 03/04/2013
MS Open Tech Updates HTML5Labs HTTP/2.0 Prototype Delivering Internet Security in Open Source Encryption Libraries
Download prototype that provides support in OpenSSL for Application Layer Protocol Negotiation...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 02/27/2013
Apache Qpid Proton AMQP libraries now available for Windows.
Back in November Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. announced that Advanced Message Queuing Protocol...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/27/2013
WS-Management adopted as ISO/IEC international standard
DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) announced today that the DMTF Web Services Management...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/26/2013
Come see Microsoft Open Technologies at ApacheCon next week!
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc will be at ApacheCon in Portland next week and we hope to see you...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/22/2013
Pointer Events Standardization Reaches Key Maturity Milestone at W3C, MS Open Tech Releases Second Drop of Pointer Events Prototype for WebKit
From: Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Principal Program Manager Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc....
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 02/21/2013
IETF standards community reaches preliminary agreements on next generation of Internet protocol HTTP/2.0
From: Gabriel Montenegro Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Brian Raymor...
Author: Brian Raymor [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 02/19/2013
New MS Open Tech HTML5 Labs HTTP/2.0 prototype shows a safer and simpler Internet communication security approach
Cisco and Microsoft security experts make ALPN application protocol negotiation recommendation to...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 02/15/2013
Happy Birthday XML!
XML was first published as a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 1998. I would have never dreamt, 15...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 02/10/2013
Ready, set, go download the latest release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java
It’s ready…the February 2013 Preview release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/08/2013
Netflix: Solving Big Problems with Reactive Extensions (Rx)
More good news for Reactive Extensions (Rx). Just yesterday, we told you about improvements we’ve...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/05/2013
New releases from the MS Open Tech Hub: Rx 2.1 and ActorFx V0.2
From the Rx and ActorFx team: Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, MS Open Tech Erik...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/04/2013
Congratulations on the latest development for OVF!
Interoperability in server and cloud space has found even more evidence with the release...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 01/29/2013
Need to discover, access, analyze and visualize big and broad data? Try F#.
Microsoft Research just released a new iteration of Try F#, a set of tools designed to make it easy...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/29/2013
Using Drupal on Windows Azure to create an OData repository
OData is an easy to use protocol that provides access to any data defined as an OData service...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 01/18/2013
MS Open Tech publishes HTML5 Labs prototype of a Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web API proposal
Prototype with interoperability between Chrome on a Mac and IE10 on Windows From: Martin Thomson...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 01/17/2013
One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows, MS Open Tech releases 64-bit and Azure installer
I’m happy to report new updates today for Redis on Windows Azure: the open-source, networked,...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 01/15/2013
Getting Started with VM Depot
Do you need to deploy a popular OSS package on a Windows Azure virtual machine, but don’t know...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/09/2013
How to develop for Windows Phone 8 on your Mac
UPDATE 01/07/13: added instructions to enable Hyper-V in Parallels Desktop VM Interested in...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 12/21/2012
New MS Open Tech Prototype of the HTTP/2.0 initial draft in an Apache HTTP server module
We continue to see good momentum within the HTTP/2.0 Working Group (IETF 85 meeting) toward...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 12/20/2012
Microsoft Open Technologies releases Windows Azure support for Solr 4.0
Microsoft Open Technologies is pleased to share the latest update to the Windows Azure...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 12/19/2012
Open source release from MS Open Tech: Pointer Events initial prototype for WebKit
From: Adalberto Foresti, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Scott...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 12/18/2012
Breaking news: HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specification’s definition is complete!
Today marks an important milestone for Web development, as the W3C announced the publication of the...
Author: paulcotton Date: 12/17/2012
Using LucidWorks on Windows Azure (Part 2 of a multi-part MS Open Tech series)
LucidWorks Search on Windows Azure delivers a high-performance search service based on Apache...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 12/13/2012
Lowering the barrier of entry to the cloud: announcing the first release of Actor Framework from MS Open Tech (Act I)
From: Erik Meijer, Partner Architect, Microsoft Corp. Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 12/07/2012
Windows Azure Authentication module for Drupal using WS-Federation
At Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we’re happy to share the news that Single Sign-on of Drupal...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 12/05/2012
MS Open Tech Contributes Support for Windows ETW and Perf Counters to Node.js
Here’s the latest about Node.js on Windows. Last week, working closely with the Node.js core team,...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 12/03/2012
System Center VMM working with OVF community to improve virtual machine interoperability
Portability and interoperability of virtualization technologies across platforms using Linux and...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/26/2012
Using LucidWorks on Windows Azure (Part 1 of a multi-part MS Open Tech series)
LucidWorks Search on Windows Azure delivers a high-performance search service based on Apache...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 11/20/2012
Sharing proposals for negotiation and flow control for HTTP/2.0 at IETF 85
From: Gabriel Montenegro Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Brian Raymor...
Author: Brian Raymor [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 11/16/2012
OData at Information on Demand 2012
I attended IBM’s Information on Demand conference two weeks ago, where I had the opportunity to talk...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/08/2012
MS Open Tech Open Sources Rx (Reactive Extensions) – a Cure for Asynchronous Data Streams in Cloud Programming
From: Erik Meijer, Architect, Microsoft Corp. Claudio Caldato, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Open...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 11/06/2012
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 1.0 approved as an OASIS Standard
We are very excited to share the news that AMQP 1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard on October 29,...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/05/2012
Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – November 2012 Preview
I’m pleased to announce the availability of a major update to our Eclipse tooling, the...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 11/05/2012
More HTTP/2.0 Prototyping: a Suggested Approach to the Protocol Upgrade
The activities of IETF’s HTTPbis working group continue next week at IETF 85 in Atlanta,...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 11/02/2012
//build/ today with open source frameworks on Windows Phone 8
Added support for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch, Cocos2D, Ogre3D and other open...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/30/2012
Simplifying Big Data Interop – Apache Hadoop on Windows Server & Windows Azure
As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation, it’s always great to see the growth and...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 10/23/2012
Interoperability Elements of a Cloud Platform: Technical Examples
Two years ago we shared our view on Interoperability Elements of a Cloud Platform. Back then we...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 10/19/2012
W3C’s Web Platform Docs – Your “Go To” for All Things Web Development
From: Jean Paoli, President, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Michael Champion, Senior Program...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 10/08/2012
New open source options for Windows Azure web sites: MediaWiki and phpBB
Need to set up a powerful wiki quickly? Looking for an open source bulletin board solution for your...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/02/2012
Sublime Text, Vi, Emacs: TypeScript enabled!
TypeScript is a new open and interoperable language for application scale JavaScript development...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/01/2012
Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – September 2012 Preview
The Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (by Microsoft Open Technologies) – September 2012...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 09/28/2012
Open Sourcing POSH-NPM, a set of Powershell scripts to enable tab-completion for NPM commands
Two weeks ago we released a .NET library for NPM, today we are releasing a small utility that will...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 09/24/2012
MongoDB Seattle recap
Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend and participate in the MongoDB Seattle conference down...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 09/21/2012
Open sourcing npm.net, a .NET library for the Node.js package manager (npm)
Today I’m happy to announce the open source release of the npm.net library. This is the same...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 09/11/2012