Interoperability @ Microsoft
Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Add a pinch of Pointer Events to your Apache Cordova or PhoneGap app thanks to MS Open Tech
Here is a new open source plugin for Apache Cordova by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. The plugin...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/16/2013
OData v4.0 approved as Committee Specification by the OASIS Open Data Protocol Technical Committee
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc is pleased to announce the approval and publication of OData...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 09/13/2013
Cocos2D-X on the highway to the Windows Store
from:Adalberto Foresti - Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.Olivier Bloch...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/05/2013
Great video - MongoDB Data Analysis with Jaspersoft on Windows Azure
Jaspersoft is an open source Java-based Business Intelligence suite that has experience in the cloud...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 08/28/2013
ActorFx Applied in Dynamically Distributed Social Media Apps
From the ActorFx team: Brian Grunkemeyer, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Open Technologies Hub...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 08/27/2013
Continue Prototyping with the Second Implementable Draft of HTTP/2.0 from IETF Standards Community
In my previous update, I announced the first HTTP/2.0 implementable draft from the HTTPbis Working...
Author: Brian Raymor [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 08/23/2013
Updated Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – Kepler, new Windows Azure SDK, and less is more for deployment options
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has released The August preview of the Windows Azure Plugin for...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 08/05/2013
Start Testing With First Implementation of IETF HTTP/2.0 Draft from MS Open Tech
Further to our recent Blog on the first HTTP/2.0 implementable draft from the IETF, Microsoft Open...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 07/29/2013
New CU-RTC-Web Prototype from MS Open Tech Demonstrates WebRTC Video Support Without SDP Offer/Answer
Supporting ORCA, a new W3C Community Group for WebRTC Today, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., (MS...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 07/24/2013
Microsoft Open Technologies and Azul Systems® to Partner on an OpenJDK™ Build for Windows Azure
New OpenJDK-based offering will be free and open source, with contributions back to the community...
Author: gianugo Date: 07/24/2013
MS Open Tech early contributor to open source dash.js community to accelerate advanced video streaming through MPEG-DASH standard
MPEG-DASH is key to the future of online video as it is the latest ISO standard for Internet...
Author: Ross Gardler Date: 07/16/2013
Developers and Citizens Can Now Harness the Power of More Open Data with CKAN and Windows Azure
Open data is becoming increasingly important for governments and public research. Based on the...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 07/16/2013
The Developer’s Dilemma: How Do You Reach a New Audience without Spending Hours Recoding?
One of the greatest challenges of today’s developer is to develop lasting code that works...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/15/2013
New open source releases: Reactive Extensions (Rx) libraries for Python and Ruby
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc is releasing two new open source libraries for Reactive Extensions...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 07/11/2013
Start Prototyping With the First Implementable Draft of HTTP/2.0 from the IETF Standards Community
I am excited to share that the long awaited first HTTP/2.0 implementable draft has been published by...
Author: Brian Raymor [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 07/09/2013
More W3C Pointer Events Implementations with Dojo and IE11
The W3C Pointer Events emerging standard continues to gain traction, advancing support for...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 07/08/2013
The Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse, July 2013 Preview is ready!
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has released a new update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 07/03/2013
Extensions and Binding Updates for Business Messaging Open Standard Spec OASIS AMQP
From: David Ingham, Program Manager, Windows Azure Service Bus Rob Dolin, Program Manager, Microsoft...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 06/28/2013
Live from //build/: Windows Azure Mobile Services and Web Sites GA, Autoscale Preview and new Virtual Machines Images
Windows Azure Mobile Services and Windows Azure Web Sites are now generally available, offering a...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/27/2013
New resources for Android developers: getting started with Windows 8 development
As a developer, having your apps and services accessible on more devices is critical. As an...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/26/2013
MS Open Tech contributes to open source adaptive streaming video player DASH.js
Adaptive streaming is an important part of the future of broadband video, and interoperability...
Author: Ross Gardler Date: 06/20/2013
New Hudson plugin using Windows Azure Storage as a repository
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. is pleased to share the news that we’re participating in the...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 06/20/2013
For Backbone.js devs: easily enable new Cloud based experiences in your apps with the Windows Azure Mobile Data Service
Synchronizing data with the cloud has just become easier for Backbone.js developers thanks to the...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/19/2013
W3C Pointer Events Gains Further Web Momentum with Patch For Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., (MS Open Tech) has made another contribution towards...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 06/17/2013
MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Patch for OpenSSL to Enable HTTP/2.0 Secure Negotiation
As part of our commitment to the progress of HTTP/2.0 in an open and interoperable fashion,...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 06/14/2013
Windows Azure Mobile Service updates and added support for Android push notifications via Google Cloud Messaging
Listening to the developers’ feedback, the Windows Azure Mobile Services team is releasing new...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/14/2013
ActorFx v0.50 – more stability, scalability, extensibility, Inter-Actor programmability and a new MapReduce demo for our cloud based Actor Runtime
By the ActorFx team: Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Open Technologies,...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 06/13/2013
New Tutorial: Using Apache ZooKeeper on Windows Azure to Manage Solr on Linux Virtual Machines
Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we’ve been working with the top open source DevOps,...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 06/13/2013
MS Open Tech, W3C Pointer Events and the JavaScript Community at JSConf 2013
Adoption of Pointer Events Grows with Upcoming Implementation for Dojo Toolkit The W3C Pointer...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 06/06/2013
Now on IE and Firefox: Debug your mobile HTML5 page remotely with weinre (WEb INspector REmote)
Great news for HTML5 mobile developers: the remote DOM inspector tool weinre is no longer restricted...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 05/31/2013
Entity Framework V6 (EF6) Beta 1 from Microsoft Includes Latest & Greatest Open Source Contributions
Microsoft Corp. has just announced the Beta 1 release of Entity Framework 6 (EF6). EF6 combines the...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/30/2013
MS Open Tech Brings the Creative World of Cinder to Windows Store Applications
Great news for Agencies, Creative Coders and Design Engineers The open source programming library...
Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 05/30/2013
Discussing Microsoft’s Openness at Linux Tag
LinuxTag is the leading meeting place for Linux and open source in Europe. Held in Berlin last week...
Author: Ross Gardler Date: 05/28/2013
Momentum Grows as OData v4 Achieves Standards Milestone
OData Industry Adoption Builds with v4 Now in Public Review in OASIS Based on the industry...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 05/28/2013
Windows Azure Service Bus Interoperable Implementation of OASIS AMQP Transitions to General Availability
GENERAL AVAILABILITY: We are pleased to share the news that AMQP 1.0 support in Windows Azure...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/23/2013
Node.js Library for Authentication with Windows Azure Active Directory
Node.js developers: add some Windows Azure authentication and access control to your Node app with...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 05/22/2013
Hortonworks HDP -- Open Source Apache Hadoop Distribution is Enterprise-ready
Generally Available on Linux, Windows Server and Windows Azure. From: Gianugo Rabellino, Senior...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 05/21/2013
Greetings Symfony Live - New tools for Symfony developers on Windows Azure
I Hope everyone at Symfony live in Portland this week is having a good time – I wish I could...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/21/2013
W3C Pointer Events Gains Momentum Within Web Communities
MS Open Tech Announces Intent to Implement in Blink While Continuing WebKit Implementation From:...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 05/14/2013
Redis on Windows – new version and NuGet Packages
Continuing our support for Redis on Windows, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has just released the...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 05/09/2013
Accelerating Start-ups with open source, and Windows Azure Accelerators
In early 2012 Microsoft chose Tel Aviv, as the location for its first start-up accelerator. When the...
Author: Ross Gardler Date: 05/07/2013
A new way for iOS and Android users to access corporate resources: The Application Gateway
Every CIO today has mobile VPN access sitting very high on the priority list and knows how mobile...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 05/06/2013
If you’re working with Java on Windows Azure, this update is for you!
From: Martin Sawicki – Principal Program Manager – MS Open Tech Brian Benz – Sr....
Author: M. Sawicki Date: 05/06/2013
MS Open Tech, Linux and Open Source at LinuxFest 2013
I was fortunate to be invited to speak on behalf of MS Open Tech at last weekend’s LinuxFest...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 05/03/2013
Thanks for a great one year anniversary!
Thanks to all our friends who sent us anniversary greetings and also those who joined us in the...
Author: Robin Ginn Date: 04/29/2013
An Update on Professional-Quality Video Captioning
I am really excited that Microsoft IE has taken another step forward enabling professional-quality...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 04/26/2013
Redis on Windows – stable and reliable
The MS Open Tech team has been spending quite a bit of time testing the latest build of Redis for...
Author: Claudio Caldato Date: 04/22/2013
Microsoft Donates JavaScript Materials to Web Platform Docs
We’d like to highlight a pleasant spring surprise from our Microsoft colleague Eliot Graff who...
Author: Mark Gayler Date: 04/19/2013
You’re invited to help us celebrate an unlikely pairing in open source
We are just days away from reaching a significant milestone for our team and the open source and...
Author: Gianugo Rabellino Date: 04/16/2013
MS Open Tech releases open source Jenkins plugin for using Windows Azure Blob service as a repository
Continuous integration (CI), where software teams integrate their work continuously into frequent...
Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/12/2013