Back in February we posted about Eclipse support for SIlverlight , and this week we announced a major milestone to tune Eclipse for WIndows 7. We're working with Tasktop technology to drive the project which will consist of developing updates to the Eclipse...

A couple of great milestones this week related to code contribution. Yesterday (perhaps the shot heard around the world in terms of software interoperability), Microsoft, for the first time, released code - some 22K lines - to the Linux community for...

Over the past few months, I, and several colleagues, hosted a number of CIO roundtables around the country for the Microsoft-Novell interoperability partnership . Here’s a video clip we pulled together…I’ve posted a full set over at our youtube channel...

I get a lot of questions about this, so I thought I would post a short clip that walks through Microsoft's virtualization project with Novell. This can also be viewed at moreinterop.com/hyperv . This link will open a new window: http://www.moreinterop...

When I speak to an audience about Microsoft's partnership with Novell, I often frame the discussion around two themes: customer centricity and IP bridge building . The former deals with the fact that vendors should proactively work together to solve interoperability...

Just a few days ago, I wrote about the native ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 . I use it everyday with my Novell colleagues and it makes our work go very smoothly (yes, they translate our docs sometimes, too!) At any rate, I was pleased to see...

I'm reading this over the weekend and wanted to pass it along. Sun and Microsoft have released a white paper outlining how they are incorporating the SAML federation standard in their respective access management solutions. For more on SAML click here...

Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/05/13/announcing-php-sdk-for-windows-azure-and-much-more.aspx

Upcoming eSeminar from Ziff Davis featuring Microsoft and Novell. Register here - http://www.eseminarslive.com/c/a/Virtualization/Microsoft052709/

...I actually got to share this with a customer last week. I attended a CIO Forum and was asked about compatibility between Microsoft Office and Open Office - his IT staff needed to share work-related files with a partner who used OO. He was pleasantly...

I just pulled down the cumulative update for the SQL Server Driver for PHP (April 09 edition) . For those of you who read my walk through for PHP connectivity to SQL Server 2005 , the driver also supports SQL Server 2008. All steps are the same as my...

The much awaited Silverlight plug-in for Linux (aka 'Moonlight') operating systems was released by Novell yesterday. Read the MSN article here , see the press release here , and finally - if applicable - download the plug-in here .

I'm excited to share that Dell just launched their solutions portal for hardware and service offerings that support the Microsoft-Novell Interoperability partnership. Briefly, as part of Dell's own efforts to help customers reduce complexity and improve...

If you work with documents, images, blogs, or other digital information, you are probably familiar with tagging. Keywords, or meta data, can be used to describe the information in question (a file, unstructured data, etc) which later helps indexing and...

For those of you following the Novell partnership, you know that we have been working on a plug-in that enables Linux users to consume Silverlight media. Here is a related project around Silverlight interoperability for Eclipse posted by JC Cimetiere...

If you're in the Tampa, FL, Dallas, TX or Chapel Hill, NC areas we want to bring this to your attention. My team is hosting an interop event with Novell focused on mixed-source virtualization and systems management. The emphasis is how to leverage our...

Happy new year everyone! A quick cross-link over to Microsoft's interop site for a summary write up of our 2 year anniversary. It's a quick read and great reference if anyone wants to know more about our progress to date. We've embedded an overview video...

Following my last post, we're hosting another Ziff webinar tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST. Drop in if you can. I'm going to present with Josh Dorfman from Novell to discuss progress of the partnership as well as some new initiatives that were noted this morning...

For those of you interested in heterogeneous virtualization between Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, I am posting a registration link for an 'on demand' audiocast we produced yesterday morning. Our presenters,...

Yesterday, Microsoft and Novell announced another milestone for their interoperability partnership that dovetailed with Microsoft's Hyper-V launch on September 8th. In short, we are making available, through partners, a combined offering with SUSE Linux...

As this is my primary interoperability project these days, I thought I would provide some insight into our latest announcement with Novell from earlier this morning (see presspass article here ). The first nineteen months of our partnership have yielded...

Great news from Cape Town - It looks like the local MS team has launched a Microsoft Technology Center (we say MTC) focused specifically on interoperability - it's the third lab in their Bandwidth Barn incubator . Having travelled to a number of countries...

Per my last post, I thought I would check out the new PHP drivers for SQL Server 2005 . From an interoperability perspective, this is really interesting for me. I 'cut my teeth' writing web applications early in my career which started on ASP (and Vsual...

Check out Sam Ramji's post on port 25, ' history.foward() '. As per his keynote today at OSCON, he outlines some new developments around Microsoft's support for open source interoperability: ADOdb contributions to support PHP connectivity to SQL Server...

Wow, what a show!! I I attended the event as a guest of Novell to promote our work around interoperability. I had hoped to post sooner but we were extremely busy all week. To summarize, the interoperability partnership was a major driver at Novell's booth...