HTML5 Video and Interoperability: Firefox Add-On Provides H.264 Support on...
by Claudio Caldato on December 15, 2010 08:00am As you know, Microsoft is committed to interoperability, and the IE team has previously blogged about and provided developer previews and samples showing...
View ArticlePrototyping Early W3C HTML5 Specifications
by Peter Galli on December 22, 2010 03:48pm In another significant Interoperability milestone Jean Paoli, the General Manager for Interoperability Solutions here at Microsoft, this week announced the...
View ArticleA Roundtable Discussion with Gianugo Rabellino
by Peter Galli on January 27, 2011 07:00am Last fall Microsoft hired Gianugo Rabellino, a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of...
View ArticleChemistry Add-In for Word v1 Hits the Street
by Peter Galli on February 01, 2011 09:40am Today, Microsoft Research, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge's Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics and the Outercurve...
View ArticleGreater Interoperability for Windows Customers With HTML5 Video
by Claudio Caldato on February 02, 2011 06:05am Google recently announced that its Chrome web browser will stop supporting the H.264 video format. At Microsoft we respect that Windows customers want...
View ArticleYes, You Can do Open Source on Windows Phone
by Gianugo Rabellino on March 08, 2011 09:38am Recently there were a number of discussions about the wording of the Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement, in particular around...
View ArticlePython Tools for Visual Studio go to Beta
by Peter Galli on March 10, 2011 05:20pm As All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported yesterday, Microsoft has posted to CodePlex, our Open Source project hosting site, a test build of Python Tools...
View ArticleLatest WebSockets Release Interoperates with Firefox, Eclipse's Jetty
by Peter Galli on March 11, 2011 01:23pm Today the Interoperability team here at Microsoft updated the the WebSockets prototype on our HTML5 Labs site, which brings the implementation in line with the...
View Article.NET Rocks! Chats with Jean Paoli
For those of you who love .Net and have an interest in Web standards and Interoperability at Microsoft, then listening to the interview with Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy...
View ArticleOpen Source + Southern Hospitality
I spent the entire week last week enjoying some good weather and southern hospitality in the Carolinas. On Tuesday Mar 15 I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the Charlotte Enterprise...
View ArticleMIX11 Recap
In case you missed the great Open Source and related Interop news that came out of Microsoft's annual MIX conference which was held in Las Vegas this week, here's a recap. Scott Guthrie, a Corporate...
View ArticleWordPress on Windows Azure: A discussion with Morten Rand-Hendriksen
I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site...
View ArticleThe .Net Gadgeteer Goes Open Source
Today Microsoft Open Sourced the reference designs to the .Net Gadgeteer, a rapid prototyping, education/hobbyist kit built on the .NET Micro Framework. The .Net Gadgeteer team has spent the past few...
View ArticleExpanding Interoperability to Community Linux
Microsoft announced today that, with immediate effect, it will support Windows Server2008 R2 Hyper-V running CentOS, a popular Linux distribution for hosters. "This development enables our hosting...
View ArticleNew SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of...
From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0. This Open Source SDK gives...
View ArticleMicrosoft working with Joyent and the Node community to bring Node.js to Windows
I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined Joyent and Ryan Dahl in their effort to make Windows a supported platform in Node. Our first goal is to add a high-performance IOCP API to Node to...
View ArticleWindows Azure Supports NIST Use Cases using Java
We've been participating in creating a roadmap for adoption of cloud computing throughout the federal government, with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) , an agency of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft @ Oscon 2011: We have become more open, let’s work together!
Gianugo Rabellino, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Open Source Communities, just finished delivering his keynote at OSCON in Portland. As Gianugo is now wandering around the OSCON session and expo...
View ArticleMicrosoft and China's CS2C Sign Cross-Platform Collaboration Agreement
Microsoft today signed a collaboration agreement with China Standard Software Corporation (CS2C), the country’s leading domestic Linux operating system provider, to jointly develop, market and sell...
View ArticleCommunity Participation
I'm heading off to Paris this weekend to participate in the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events held in that wonderful city next week. I'm really looking forward to chatting with...
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