Microsoft Software
Microsoft's New Interoperability and Open Source Software - O'Reilly ...
By Kevin Farnham
Microsoft's announcement of "broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors" is certainly an interesting development. Although most of...
[Publish Date: February 22, 2008]
Interoperability - Build Mission Critical Applications in PHP, Ruby, Java ...
By Vijay Rajagopalan
Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs; how to develop using combinations of PHP, Java and Ruby in addition to the standard Microsoft languages.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Coding4Fun: .NET Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and ...
--> Sebastopol, CA—How would you like to build an Xbox game, use your Wiimote to create an electronic whiteboard, or build your own peer-to-peer application? Coding4Fun (O'Reilly, US $39.99) by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek, helps you tackle...
[Publish Date: December 12, 2008]
Dawn of the Software Comedian - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Spencer Critchley
Microsoft Songsmith, designed to be a software aide for musical composition, has instead proved to be a great tool for comedy, as early adopters have exploited its bent for generating hilariously inappropriate accompaniments to famous artists' vocal tracks. This is...
[Publish Date: March 06, 2009]
Speaker: Stephen Elop: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...
As president of the Microsoft Business Division, Stephen Elop oversees the Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions and Unified Communications Groups. This division is responsible for the Microsoft Office system of programs, servers and software-based services, Microsoft Dynamics, business applications for small and midsize businesses, large organizations and divisions of global enterprises and Microsoft's Unified Communications, products that provide complete software-based communications tools to business. Elop joined Microsoft in January, 2008 and is a member of the company's senior leadership team that sets overall strategy and direction for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Elop was Chief Operating Officer for Juniper Networks, a leading provider of high-performance network infrastructure and a valued Microsoft partner. As COO, Elop was responsible for all the company's product groups, corporate development, global sales and service and marketing and manufacturing...
[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]
Microsoft Sponsors Apache - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
By Dustin Puryear
Ooh, now this is cool: Microsoft is now a contributing member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This does not mean that Microsoft is just talking the talk; they are actually putting up money to help support the management and coders that...
[Publish Date: August 01, 2008]
The big fish swallow the little fish: Adobe's FXG and MicroSoft's OOXML - ...
By Rick Jelliffe
Adobe's FXG seems to be to PSD what OOXML is to .DOC: a re-factoring of a middle-aged binary format in XML with a focus on fidelity rather than elegance. My working model is that we need to think of the de-proprietarization of market-dominating technologies in the intensely pragmatic model of a sequence of bigger fish swallowing smaller fish: a sequence of consolidation of dialects, modularization of parts, then adoption into pluralistic frameworks and Adaptability Standards, allowing user selection of winning mini-technologies. Each stage of which will take at least a major software release cycle.
[Publish Date: May 05, 2009]
Chris Sells is a Microsoft Software Legend and a Program Manager with the Distributed Systems Group at Microsoft. His weblog at http://www.sellsbrothers.com is popular with .NET developers for its zany and independent commentary on technology and geek...
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Does Microsoft Really Need to "Compete" With Open Source? - O'Reilly ONLamp
By Todd Ogasawara
Here's something that's a bit dated (a few weeks old) but something I've been meaning to mull over and comment on. On May 28, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said that... Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google (as reported...
[Publish Date: June 25, 2008]
Tim O'Reilly, Microsoft, Silverlight and Popfly - O'Reilly Windows ...
By Jesse Liberty
In Sunday's NY Times (February 10, 2008) Tim O'Reilly is quoted as saying Popfly shows me that Microsoft still thinks this is all about software, rather than about accumulating data via network effects, which to me is the core of...
[Publish Date: February 12, 2008]
James Foxall, MCSD is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Vice President of Tigerpaw Software, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider specializing in commercial database applications.
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Speaker: Tanuj Bansal: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...
Tanuj Bansal is a Sr Program Manager in the SharePoint product group. Tanuj has been in the software industry for 16 years. Before Microsoft, Tanuj served as a general manager for a private software product and consulting company in Michigan, led several product launches at Autodesk and managed an enterprise services team at PTC. Tanuj holds an MS in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland and an MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
