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- Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses
- After pulling its "Sandcastle" documentation compiler from its CodePlex repository site for failure to comply with Open Source Initiative terms and conditions, Microsoft is ready to try releasing "Sandcastle" again under one of its OSI-approved licenses. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, OSI, Source Code, Microsoft Corp., Sandcastle, CodePlex, Team Management, Open Source, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks
- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff releasedMarathonToolhttp://www.codeplex.com/marathontoolSA ExploiterSA Exploiter - GUI SQL Inj ToolFast-Track 3 - Pen Test Toolkithttp://securestate.com/pages/free-tools.aspxRE: DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff releasedPacket-o-matichttp://www.packet-o-matic.org
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Defcon 16, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?because VS 2009 would not be free upgradeI think MS would have a PR nightmare on their hands if this update wasn't free especially since it's adding features/support for stuff that was in beta/ctp along with VS 2008.Mary Jo Foley what a stupid...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Visual Studio
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009
- Even though Microsoft has yet to release a public test build of Office 14, it is tracking for a 2009 release and will likely be named Office 2009. Microsoft didn't issue a press release announcing its plans. In fact, the company has been steadfast in refusing to...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Date Proof, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- SharePoint gets an open-source podcasting add-on
- As part of its ongoing campaign to emphasize SharePoint Server's social-computing capabilities, Microsoft rolled out on June 9 a test version of the Podcast Kit for SharePoint PKS, which it is making available under an open-source license. PKS is built on the Microsoft Silverlight platform and is...
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Podcasting, PKS, Podcasts, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source. Sandcastle is a documentation compiler for managed...
- Tags: OSI, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., Sandcastle, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd
- One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool. John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online -- as he describes it, "the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression...
- Tags: TechEd, Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedIt taught Microsoft that its days are numberedas an all powerful monopoly, and that it cannot just run roughshod wherever it likes without an equal and opposite reaction.It's taught us, the community, that maybe it's time to start lots of lobbying of our own. Perhaps lots...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Lessons Learned, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocialNice to see all of the open moves by Yahoo. They seem to have decided thatbeing more open is the only thing that can save them from Microsoft. Time will tell if it works or not . . . .Are you kidding?Microsoft...
- Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Want a peek at a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft?
- Want to see what a non-Windows-based operating system developed by Microsoft looks like? If you are willing and able to sign a non-commercial, academic Shared Source license, look no further. Microsoft on March 4 made the few-hundred-thousand lines of source code for Singularity Version 1 available for...
- Tags: Researcher, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Singularity, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot
- GPLMedicine advocate Fred Trotter right has given some inspection to both Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault, coming down solidly on Google's side. Trotter writes that Google Health's privacy policies and APIs are superior to those of Microsoft HealthVault, and its access control system looks better. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Trotter, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- How big a threat is good Microsoft?
- One point was made to me repeatedly while covering the HIMSS show for ZDNet Healthcare this week. (Drawing by Matt Elder.) All this "good Microsoft" stuff about supporting open source, abut placing code on Codeplex, and about keeping open source projects "in the loop" regarding format changes,...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Microsoft HealthVault is nothing like Google Health
- Microsoft HealthVault is a platform for sharing medical data. Google Health could, if it chose, become a HealthVault application. Microsoft might even pay to help make that happen, th company said at HIMSS. (Click here for the full drawing at right.) Grad Conn, senior...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hospital, SDK, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes beta
- Microsoft is way ahead of Google in asking the questions which need answering before either company can demand everyone's health records. Over the last week Microsoft has put out specific promises on privacy and interoperability for the community to review. (The picture is from the blog of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Healthvault, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+born
- Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+bornawesome...another alternative, lightweight OSMicrosoft ought to rebuild Windows on top of its stripped-down kernel so that Windows can run efficiently with fewer resources.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....."[b][b] can't hold a candle to Linux."please cut the crap![i]Cosmos is 100% C#. The only assembly is emitted by our compiler.[/i]Last time I checked C# code was plain...
- Tags: Programming languages, Operating systems, .NET, cosmo, open source, Microsoft Corp., Java, operating system, compiler
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born
- Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There's another microkernel, .Net-based operating system in town. And this one's available under an open-source license. Known as Cosmos, the new, independently developed operating system OS is the brain child of former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad "Kudzu" Hower....
- Tags: Open Source, Assembly, Operating System, Compiler, Microsoft Corp., Kudzu, Cosmos Frequently Asked Questions, MJF, C#, .Net, Operating Systems, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
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