Interoperability @ Microsoft
Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java - August 2012 Preview
Gearing up for back to school, the Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. team has been busy updating the...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 08/28/2012
Microsoft at DrupalCon Munich next week
Microsoft at DrupalCon is becoming a tradition. After having partnered closely with the Drupal...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/17/2012
Microsoft Releases New Dev Tools Compiled With Open Source Code
Jason Zander blogged about new releases of Microsoft’s developer tools today – tools that include...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 08/16/2012
Using the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure
If you need a highly scalable data layer for your cloud service or application running on Windows...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/16/2012
MS Open Tech is hiring!
Do you have a passion for interoperability, open source, and open standards? If you’re an...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/13/2012
Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web (CU-RTC-Web)
UPDATE: See our latest W3C WebRTC Working Group blog post on 01-17-2013...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 08/06/2012
HTTP/2.0 makes a great step forward in Vancouver, but this is just the beginning!
From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen Principal Architect, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Rob Trace Senior...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 08/05/2012
Windows Azure Storage plugin for WordPress
The Windows Azure Storage Plugin for WordPress was updated today to use the new Windows Azure SDK...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/03/2012
OSCON photos are here! Thanks, Julian!
Hey OSCON friends, drum roll please … our Microsoft-sponsored photographer and joyful open source...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/01/2012
Node.js script for releasing a Windows Azure blob lease
This post covers a workaround for an issue that may affect you if you’re deploying Windows...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/01/2012
OSCON 2012
It was great to see everyone at OSCON last week! The MS Open Tech team had a fun and productive week...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/26/2012
More of Microsoft’s App Development Tools Goes Open Source
Today marks a milestone since we launched Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) as we...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 07/19/2012
MongoDB Installer for Windows Azure
Do you need to build a high-availability web application or service? One that can scale out quickly...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/09/2012
Check out the updated HTTP Speed+Mobility Open Source Prototype
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has just released an update to the open source HTTP Speed+Mobility...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 07/05/2012
Doctrine supports SQL Database Federations for massive scalability on Windows Azure
Symfony and Doctrine are a popular combination for PHP developers, and now you can take full...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/29/2012
Symfony on Windows Azure, a powerful combination for PHP developers
Symfony, the popular open source web application framework for PHP developers, is now even easier to...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/29/2012
Windows Azure SDK for PHP available, including support for Service Bus
Good news for all you PHP developers out there: I am happy to share with you the availability of...
Author: Ram Jeyaraman Date: 06/27/2012
How to make your site faster: use web standards!
Justin Garret from the IE team published a post on the Exploring IE blog late last week that...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/19/2012
Interoperability Goodness at TechEd 2012
I know there was a flurry of news at the recent TechEd 2012 conference in Orlando, so I wanted to...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 06/18/2012
Solr and LucidWorks: enterprise search for Windows Azure
Last week’s Windows Azure release delivered a host of new services for developers, ranging...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/11/2012
Windows Azure Command-Line Tool for Mac and Linux
Yesterday, Bill Laing of the Windows Azure team announced support for virtual machines running the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/07/2012
Eclipse Plugin for Java Developers on Windows Azure
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (by...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 06/07/2012
Gigaspaces Working with MS Open Tech on Java Tools for Windows Azure
We’re pleased to announce that GigaSpaces Technologies Ltd, an established leader in helping...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 06/07/2012
Migrating HTML5-based applications to Windows Phone overnight with Apache Cordova and jQuery Mobile
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., the Apache Cordova team and the JQueryMobile team recently met...
Author: Abu Obeida Date: 06/05/2012
MongoDB Experts video series
MS Open Tech is pleased to announce a new series of videos on Channel 9 that covers MongoDB topics...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/01/2012
OData submitted to OASIS for standardization
Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Progress Software, SAP AG, and WSO2 have submitted a proposal to OASIS to...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/24/2012
News from MS Open Tech: Initial HTTP Speed+Mobility Open Source Prototype Now Available for Download
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has just published an initial open source prototype implementation...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 05/11/2012
Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows
The past few weeks have been very busy in our offices as we announced the creation of Microsoft Open...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 04/26/2012
More news from MS Open Tech: announcing the open source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile
Starting today, the Metro style theme for JQuery Mobile, the popular open source mobile user...
Author: Abu Obeida Date: 04/26/2012
Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
I am really excited to be able to share with you today that Microsoft has announced a new wholly...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 04/12/2012
BuildNewGames.com to help developers write cross-browser code
BuildNewGames.com, a new site to make building web games easier for developers using HTML5, CSS3 and...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 04/05/2012
Speed and Mobility: An Approach for HTTP 2.0 to Make Mobile Apps and the Web Faster
This week begins face to face meetings at the IETF on how to approach HTTP 2.0 and improve the...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 03/25/2012
New Interoperability Solutions for SQL Server 2012
I am excited to share some great news about how we are opening up the SQL Server data platform even...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 03/22/2012
SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure
The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 02/24/2012
Open Source OData Tools for MySQL and PHP Developers
To enable more interoperability scenarios, Microsoft has released today two open source tools that...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/09/2012
Beta of Windows Phone Toolkit for Amazon Web Services released
I am pleased to announce the beta release of the Windows Phone Toolkit for Amazon Web Services...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 01/30/2012
Microsoft at Node Summit
We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 01/24/2012
Windows Azure Libraries for Java Available, including support for Service Bus
Good news for all you Java developers out there: I am happy to share with you the availability of...
Author: Ram Jeyaraman Date: 01/09/2012
Open Source OData Library for Objective-C Project Moves to Outercurve Foundation
As Microsoft continues to deliver on its commitment to Interoperability, I have good news on the...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 12/20/2011
Full Support for PhoneGap on Windows Phone is Now Complete!
Congratulations to all the people involved in the PhoneGap community for the recent release of...
Author: Abu Obeida Date: 12/16/2011
Azure + Java = Cloud Interop: New Channel 9 Video with GigaSpaces Posted
Today Microsoft is hosting the Learn Windows Azure broadcast event to demonstrate how easy it is for...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 12/12/2011
Openness Update for Windows Azure
As Microsoft’s Senior Director of Open Source Communities, I couldn’t be happier to...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 12/12/2011
SQL Database Federations: Enhancing SQL to enable Data Sharding for Scalability in the Cloud
I am thrilled to announce the availability of a new specification called SQL Database Federations,...
Author: Ram Jeyaraman Date: 12/12/2011
HTML5 Labs Prototype Update for W3C Media Capture API
Today, the Internet Explorer blog posted an interesting update of an HTML5Labs prototype of the W3C...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 12/09/2011
Preview Release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Hits the Streets
Microsoft's SQL Server team yesterday announced the availability of a preview release of the SQL...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 11/30/2011
Prototypes of JavaScript Globalization & Math, String, and Number extensions
As the HTML5 platform becomes more fully featured, web applications become richer, and scenarios...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 11/21/2011
jQuery Mobile Open Source Framework Support for Windows Phone
Hello web and mobile developers! As you probably noticed, jQuery Mobile version 1.0 was announced...
Author: Abu Obeida Date: 11/18/2011
First Stable Build of Node.js on Windows Released
Great news for all Node.js developers wanting to use Windows: today we reached an important...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 11/07/2011
Windows Gets Eclipse Platform Improvements
Today, David Green at Tasktop posted a blog about the latest Eclipse platform improvements for...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 11/02/2011
W3Conf: Get up to Speed on the Modern Open Web Platform
Are you a Web developer, designer or just interested in the space? Well, if you are, you really...
Author: paulcotton Date: 10/26/2011