Interoperability @ Microsoft
Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
AMQP 1.0 Specification Now Available
I am happy to report that today the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group announced...
Author: Ram Jeyaraman Date: 10/12/2011
More guidance and tool for porting iPhone & Android apps to Windows Phone
[Cross-posted on the Windows Phone Developer Blog] Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” is just out...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 10/10/2011
OpenNebula Clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V
More good news on Microsoft's commitment to Interoperability in the cloud: last week Sandy Gupta,...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 10/03/2011
Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster
It’s my great pleasure to announce today a comprehensive package to leverage your development...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 09/21/2011
Community Participation
I'm heading off to Paris this weekend to participate in the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 09/16/2011
Site Ready WebSockets
Today the Internet Explorer blog has a post on site ready Web Sockets, which talks about how...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 09/15/2011
The OData Producer Library for PHP is here
I’m pleased to announce that today we released the OData Producer Library for PHP. In case you...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 09/09/2011
PhoneGap mobile HTML5 framework adding support for Windows Phone Mango
[Cross posted from the Windows Phone Developer Blog] We’re very excited to join Nitobi to...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 09/08/2011
W3C Announces Process Innovations Making it More Authoritative And More Agile
The JTC1 and W3C jointly announced this week that the international vote of 8 web services...
Author: MCChampion Date: 09/07/2011
From DrupalCon London: Drupal and Microsoft – It’s Jolly Good!
It’s been a busy week here in Croydon (just outside of central London), and Microsoft is very...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 08/25/2011
Try the June CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP
Good news for all the PHP and Java developers out there: today we are publishing some Windows Azure...
Author: Alessandro Catorcini Date: 07/28/2011
Microsoft @ OSCON 2011: We have become more open, let’s work together!
Gianugo Rabellino, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Open Source Communities, just finished...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 07/27/2011
Neo4j, the open source Java graph database, and Windows Azure
Recently I was travelling in Europe. I alwasy find it a pleasure to see a mixture of varied things...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 07/05/2011
Windows Azure Supports NIST Use Cases using Java
We've been participating in creating a roadmap for adoption of cloud computing throughout the...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 06/29/2011
Jumpstarting Potential new Web standards Just got Easier and Faster
W3C has announced they are beta testing a W3C Community Process that allows groups to develop...
Author: MCChampion Date: 06/28/2011
Microsoft 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...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 06/23/2011
Building Java applications on Windows Azure gets easier with the new version of the Eclipse plugin
I’m pleased to announce that the June 2011 CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the Windows...
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 06/23/2011
The WebSockets Prototype Gets Another Update
We have just updated the WebSockets prototype on our HTML5 Labs site, bringing the implementation in...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 06/22/2011
Being a polyglot developer II: learning Windows Phone from an Android perspective
As I wrote in this post “Being a polyglot developer: tools & guidance to help iPhone developers...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 06/09/2011
New Media Capture Audio Prototype Released
As we announced in April, we have been working hard on developing a prototype to cover the Media...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 06/07/2011
Microsoft + Joomla at J and Beyond 2011, Trip & Videos
On May 6-8, 2011 we took part in a major Joomla! event, J and Beyond, that took place in Rolduc...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 05/30/2011
New SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of Windows Azure with PHP
From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati, we’re...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 05/26/2011
HTML5 Spec Hits Last Call Status
Late yesterday the W3C’s HTML Working Group announced that the HTML5 specification has reached...
Author: paulcotton Date: 05/26/2011
New WebSockets Update Continues to Interoperate with Firefox, Eclipse's Jetty
The WebSockets prototype has been updated on our HTML5 Labs site, bringing the implementation in...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 05/12/2011
Podcast: HTML5 Labs on Developer Smackdown
I had the opportunity to participate in the Developer Smackdown podcast a few weeks ago at MIX Last...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 05/10/2011
The FileAPI Prototype Gets Updated
I am happy to let you know that today we have made available an update to the FileAPI prototype we...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 05/05/2011
Being a polyglot developer: tools & guidance to help iPhone developers learn Windows Phone 7
To be honest, I used to be a developer coding for a living, and now I’d say I’m a savvy...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 04/29/2011
Microsoft + Joomla! at J and Beyond 2011
It is not that often that we have the chance to visit a medieval abbey in Europe…but that is...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 04/28/2011
WordPress 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...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 04/19/2011
New features in the April 2011 CTP the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java
In case you missed the previous announcement, the plugin adds to Eclipse a set of wizards and...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 04/18/2011
WebSockets and HTML5 Labs @ MIX11
Yesterday at MIX11 in Las Vegas, I had the pleasure of delivering a breakout session titled “Hot...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 04/13/2011
FileAPI Prototype Added to HTML5 Labs, More Prototypes Coming
Last December, when we launched HTML5 Labs, the place where Microsoft shares prototypes of early and...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 04/12/2011
AppFabric ACS: Single-Sign-On for Active Directory, Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live ID, Facebook & Others
Until today, you had to build your own custom solutions to accept a mix of enterprise and...
Author: Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh Date: 04/12/2011
MIX Session Announcement: “Hot from the Labs: HTML5 WebSockets”
Another year, another 72-hour conversation. MIX is taking place in Las Vegas April...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 03/31/2011
Open Source + Southern Hospitality
I spent the entire week last week enjoying some good weather and southern hospitality in the...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 03/30/2011
Microsoft Interoperability at EclipseCon 2011
I've just returned from EclipseCon 2011, in wet and less than usually sunny Santa Clara California,...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 03/25/2011
.NET Rocks! Chats with Jean Paoli
For those of you who love .Net and have an interest in Web standards and Interoperability at...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 03/24/2011
New plugin for Eclipse to get Java developers off the ground with Windows Azure
[3/22/2010 – 5:00pm – Updated – Added Installation instructions] As we said a few...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 03/22/2011
Impressions From My First DrupalCon
Last week I attended DrupalCon Chicago – my first DrupalCon since I started working on Drupal...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 03/18/2011
Latest WebSockets Release Interoperates with Firefox, Eclipse's Jetty
We have updated the WebSockets prototype on our HTML5 Labs site, which brings the implementation in...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 03/11/2011
The WebSockets Prototype Gets Another Update
As we continue to move forward with updating the prototypes on our HTML5 Labs site as quickly as...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/25/2011
W3C Accepts Microsoft’s Tracking Protection Standard Submission
The W3C announced today that they have formally accepted Microsoft's proposal on a common W3C...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 02/24/2011
Improving experience for Java developers with Windows Azure
From the early days, Windows Azure has offered choices to developers. It allows use of multiple...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 02/23/2011
HTML5 Moves Forward
In case you missed it earlier this week, the W3C announced that it had extended the charter of the...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 02/17/2011
Relationships … It’s Complicated!
Isn't Valentine's Day a perfect occasion to think about relationships? Other than my family, the...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 02/14/2011
The Updated WebSockets Prototype
Following hot on the heels of last week’s update to the IndexedDB prototype, I am pleased to...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/09/2011
Windows Phone Interoperability site
The announcement of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Update is the opportunity for us to say a few...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 02/04/2011
The IndexedDB Prototype Gets an Update
I'm happy to be able to give you an update today on the IndexedDB prototype, which we released late...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/04/2011
Greater Interoperability for Windows Customers With HTML5 Video
Google recently announced that its Chrome web browser will stop supporting the H.264 video format....
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 02/02/2011
Using Drupal on Windows Azure: Hands-On with 4 new Drupal Modules
Since the launch of Windows Azure a couple years ago, we’ve been working on driving...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 01/24/2011