Interoperability @ Microsoft
Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Welcome Drupal 7, a new version with greater interoperability with the Microsoft platform
The new version of Drupal 7 was released a couple weeks ago, and now that people have finally...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 01/24/2011
Celebrating the W3C & HTML5 With a New Logo Program
W3C is the home of web standards The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the home of web...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 01/18/2011
Offloading work to PHP Worker Roles on Windows Azure
There are many common scenarios in web development that require processing of information, gathering...
Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 01/07/2011
Windows Azure tools for PHP get an update and refreshed content
The Windows Azure tools for PHP (see the list below) got an update for Christmas (well a little bit...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 01/06/2011
Quicksteps to get started with PHP on Windows Azure
The weather in the northern hemisphere is still a little nippy, and if you're like me, you're...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 12/27/2010
Prototyping Early W3C HTML5 Specifications
Today we launched the HTML5 Labs Web site, a place where we prototype early and not yet fully stable...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 12/21/2010
IndexedDB Prototype Available for Internet Explorer
As we launch our new HTML5 Labs today, this is one of two guest blogs about the first two HTML5...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 12/21/2010
Introducing the WebSockets Prototype
As we launch our new HTML5 Labs today, this is one of two guest blogs about the first two HTML5...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 12/21/2010
HTML5 Video and Interoperability: Firefox Add-On Provides H.264 Support on Windows
As you know, Microsoft is committed to interoperability, and the IE team has previously blogged...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 12/15/2010
WS-I Completes Web Services Interoperability Standards Work
The final three Web services profiles developed by the Web Services Interoperability Organization...
Author: MCChampion Date: 11/10/2010
Zend Framework 1.11 Ships
At the annual ZendCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA today, Zend Technologies announced general...
Author: Peter Galli Date: 11/02/2010
Open in the Cloud: Improving the Java Developer Experience on Windows Azure Platform
As Microsoft continues to deliver on improving the Java developer experience on Windows Azure, I am...
Author: vijay_rajagopalan Date: 10/28/2010
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP: new update, new tutorial
Things are moving pretty fast! A few weeks back we announced a series of new and updated Tools/SDKs...
Author: vijay_rajagopalan Date: 10/12/2010
Windows Azure Platform gets easier for PHP developers to write modern cloud applications
This week, I’m attending the Open Source India conference, in Chennai, India where I had the...
Author: vijay_rajagopalan Date: 09/19/2010
Bienvenue - Benvenuto - Welcome to Microsoft Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director, Open Source Communities.
Fourteen years ago, I relocated from France to join Microsoft, where I expanded my dream to do big...
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 09/13/2010
Binary File Format Plugfest
The Office interoperability team will host a Binary File Format Plugfest on October 19th and 20th in...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 08/18/2010
Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 released
Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 08/05/2010
Interoperability Elements of a Cloud Platform Outlined at OSCON
This week I’m in Portland, Oregon attending the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)....
Author: Jean Paoli Date: 07/22/2010
Microsoft at OSCON next week
Microsoft returns to the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon next...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 07/15/2010
Apache Stonehenge new M2 release adds claims-based authentication scenarios
Web Services protocols have been around for ten years now. The specifications around these protocols...
Author: Kamaljit Bath Date: 07/15/2010
Identity “Mash-up” Federation Demo using Multiple Protocols (OpenID and WS-Federation)
[Guest blogger Mike Jones, from the Federated Identity Team] At the last Interoperability Executive...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 07/09/2010
Voice your opinion on .NET interoperability with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Who says Microsoft doesn’t listen? Here is a chance to voice your opinion and make .NET more...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 06/17/2010
Managing “404/Page not found” Error on WordPress with Bing
Here’s an interesting way for WordPress developers to easily manage the “404/Page not...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 06/04/2010
Powering Search on PHP Web Sites with Bing
The Bing Search and Decision engine offers a comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API)...
Author: suchawla Date: 06/01/2010
Two open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files
Microsoft today announced the availability of two new open source projects that complement technical...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 05/24/2010
New version of the Command-Line Tools for PHP to Deploy Applications on Windows Azure
Today at Tek-X during the “Tips & Tricks to get the most of PHP with IIS, and the Windows...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 05/21/2010
Taking advantage of Windows Azure Storage from PHP: example with a WordPress plugin
Continuing our efforts on improving interoperability between PHP and Microsoft technologies, we have...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 05/21/2010
phpBB: Available for the Microsoft Web Platform
From the Microsoft Web Platform Team Blog: “ Today Microsoft is announcing that the Windows Web...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 05/07/2010
Open Data Protocol (OData) .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available under Apache 2.0 license
Microsoft has just released the source code of the .NET Framework Client Libraries for OData. The...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 04/27/2010
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) connector for SharePoint 2010 will be part of the Admin Toolkit this summer
Today at the http://www.aiimexpo.com/conference-info/sharepoint-2010-summit-aiim-expo, Eric Swift...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 04/21/2010
SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP adds PHP's PDO style data access for SQL Server
Hi, I’m Ashay Chaudhary, Program Manager at Microsoft. Today at DrupalCon SF 2010, we are reaching...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 04/19/2010
SugarCRM on Windows Azure & SSRS PHP SDK at SugarCon 2010
This week I was at SugarCon 2010, the CRM conference. SugarCRM, one of my partners in the Interop...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 04/16/2010
SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP: adding business intelligence and reporting features to PHP applications
Wouldn’t it be awesome if PHP developers building reporting applications could use the wider range...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 04/08/2010
Eclipse shines on Windows 7: Microsoft and Tasktop partnering to contribute code enhancement to Eclipse
I’m writing this from EclipseCon in San Jose, where Shawn Minto, from Tasktop Technologies and I...
Author: vijay_rajagopalan Date: 03/22/2010
Microsoft on Open Source, OData, the Web and the Cloud at OSBC
Microsoft was once again at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) held at the Palace Hotel in...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 03/19/2010
New command-line tool for PHP to deploy applications on Windows Azure
I’ve just finished my MIX10 session (“Building PHP Applications using the Windows Azure Platform”)...
Author: suchawla Date: 03/17/2010
OData interoperability with .NET, Java, PHP, iPhone and more
Wouldn’t that be cool to have more ways to unlock your data and free it from applications silos?...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 03/16/2010
HTML5 : Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group
I’m Paul Cotton, Group Manager, Web Services Standards and Partners, in the Interoperability...
Author: paulcotton Date: 03/11/2010
New interoperability lab: Remote Desktop between Windows and Mac
We have just published a new Lab on InteropVendorAlliance.org titled Remote Desktop Interoperability...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 03/01/2010
Getting started with PHP on Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
Recently I’ve been chatting with quite a few developers out there who are looking to get their PHP...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 02/26/2010
New Office Documentation Now Publicly Available
By Paul Lorimer, Group Manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability [UPDATE: 05/24/2010, Two open...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 02/19/2010
Microsoft Brings Cloud Interoperability Down to Earth
I wanted to share this Feature Story that we have just posted on the Microsoft News Center: […]...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 02/01/2010
Putting customer feedback into action to advance interoperability
As the Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council moved into its 4th year of existence and...
Author: Kamaljit Bath Date: 01/29/2010
New version of Zend Framework adds support for Microsoft Windows Azure
Zend Technologies Inc. has announced the availability of Zend Framework 1.10, which among other new...
Author: vijay_rajagopalan Date: 01/28/2010
Creating PHP CRUD Apps with SQL Server on your Server or in the Azure Cloud
Do you know PHP and have data in a Microsoft SQL Server database? Well we have an application wizard...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 01/06/2010
Moonlight 2 is now available
From the Silverlight Team blog: Moonlight 2 is now available “We are pleased to announce the...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 12/17/2009
PHP and IE8 Web Slices
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) shipped with a new feature for web users called Web Slices. You can learn...
Author: Jas Sandhu Date: 12/04/2009
Interoperability at PDC09: let's recap
I just flew back from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) in Los Angeles. What...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 11/20/2009
Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) workshop, Brussels
Last week we participated in the DII workshop that took place in Brussels. Attendees included a...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 11/20/2009
Apache Stonehenge demoed at PDC09
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft was at ApacheCon. We reported the progress made on the Stonehenge...
Author: JC Cimetiere Date: 11/19/2009