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You’re invited to help us celebrate an unlikely pairing in open source

Port25 — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:00:00 GMT

We are just days away from reaching a significant milestone for our team and the open source and open standards communities: the first anniversary of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. We can’t...(read more)

It keeps on getting better – Hortonworks highlights native Windows support for Apache Hadoop

Port25 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:10:00 GMT

Any time you can open up a platform to more options for interoperability, it’s a great thing. It’s even better if the platform is as popular as Apache Hadoop and the new option is one that has been accepted as a popular choice. And earlier...(read more)

A collaborative snapshot of community-driven Web developer tools

Port25 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:15:00 GMT

Today Scott Guthrie blogged about new releases of Microsoft’s Web developer tools that reflect a snapshot of improvements and contributions from the open source community and Microsoft Open Technologies Hub (The Hub). The latest updates from ASP...(read more)

VM Depot repository off to a flying start

Port25 — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:34:00 GMT

It's been just one month since Microsoft Open Technologies announced the early preview of VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images. Today we are proud to announce that the community has rallied to our call and already...(read more)

Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service

Port25 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:23:00 GMT

Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft’s ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service , Microsoft’s cloud-powered Application Lifecycle...(read more)

It's an exciting day for me

Port25 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:50:00 GMT

I've been involved with open source software for just shy of 15 years now. During that time I've seen open source software become a fundamental part of technology innovation. It is that technology innovation that has fed me and my family for many years...(read more)

For your OSS image building and sharing pleasure … meet VM Depot from MS Open Tech

Port25 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:00:00 GMT

By Gianugo Rabellino Senior Director Open Source Communities Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. As I write this, I’m exploring the public preview of VM Depot , a new service from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. VM Depot is a community-driven catalog...(read more)

Simplifying Big Data Interop – Apache Hadoop on Windows Server & Windows Azure

Port25 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:37:49 GMT

(This blog was originally posted on our Interoperability blog ) As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation , it’s always great to see the growth and adoption of Apache community projects. The Apache Hadoop project is a prime example. Last...(read more)

TypeScript: an open and interoperable language

Port25 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Today Microsoft announced the release of the TypeScript preview , a new open and interoperable language for application scale JavaScript development. The TypeScript compiler is available as open source on CodePlex . TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript...(read more)

MS Open Tech is hiring - come join the fun!

Port25 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMT

I can hardly believe it’s been almost four months since we announced the foundation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Boy, have we been busy: Redis , JQuery Mobile , OData , HTTP 2.0 , Doctrine , Symfony , Apache Solr , Windows Azure tools for...(read more)

Windows Server Hyper-V is now a hypervisor for FreeBSD

Port25 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:23:06 GMT

As noted on the Openness@Microsoft blog this morning by Anandeep Pannu, Senior Program Manager for the Open Source Technical Center: Today, Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix are excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD support for Windows...(read more)

Meet the team that is collaborating on open source projects at the MS Open Tech Hub

Port25 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:00:00 GMT

From Jean Paoli Since we launched Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) as a subsidiary , project ideas have poured into our team from inside and outside the company as we shipped many open source projects and participated in many open standards...(read more)

MS Open Tech @ OSCON 2012

Port25 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:10:18 GMT

If you’re at OSCON 2012 this week, drop by the Microsoft booth (#601) – we’d love to see you! We have many members of the MS Open Tech team here, as well as OSCON attendees from a variety of Microsoft teams and product groups who work...(read more)

Open Management Interface (OMI) – open-source implementation of DMTF CIM/WBEM standards

Port25 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:56:00 GMT

Microsoft and The Open Group have announced the release of Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards. The Windows Management team has...(read more)

A New Milestone For Openness On Windows Azure

Port25 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure updates. With these new updates, Windows Azure is more than ever an open and easy platform to build and run applications in the cloud, and the place to...(read more)