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In early 2012 Microsoft chose Tel Aviv, as the location for its first start-up accelerator. When the team at Microsoft Research and Development, Israel asked if MS Open technologies, Inc. could speak about open source on Windows Azure at their Cloud Day event I immediately jumped at the chance since...

The MS Open Tech team has been spending quite a bit of time testing the latest build of Redis for Windows (available for download from the MS Open Tech Github repo ). As we approach completion of our test plan, we thought we’d share some very promising results. In phase I of our stress testing, we put...

Back in November Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. announced that Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard . AMQP 1.0 enables interoperability using wire-level messaging between compliant clients and brokers. Applications can achieve full-fidelity message exchange...

Microsoft Research just released a new iteration of Try F# , a set of tools designed to make it easy for anyone – not just developers – to learn F# and take advantage of its big data, cross-platform capabilities. F# is the open-source, cross-platform programming language invented by Don...

I’m happy to report new updates today for Redis on Windows Azure: the open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store. We’ve released a new 64-bit version that gives developers access to the full benefits of an extended address space. This was an important step in our journey toward...

Do you need to deploy a popular OSS package on a Windows Azure virtual machine, but don’t know where to start? Or do you have a favorite OSS configuration that you’d like to make available for others to deploy easily? If so, the new VM Depot community portal from Microsoft Open Technologies...

From: Erik Meijer, Partner Architect, Microsoft Corp. Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.   There is much more to cloud computing than running isolated virtual machines, yet writing distributed systems is still too hard. Today we are making progress...

From: Erik Meijer, Architect, Microsoft Corp. Claudio Caldato, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Updated with a quote from Ferranti Computer Systems NV Updated: added quotes from Netflix and BlueMountain Capital Management If you are a developer that writes asynchronous code for...

Added support for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch, Cocos2D, Ogre3D and other open source frameworks. The cool news for developers keeps on rolling at //build/ 2012. We’re thrilled to relay the announcements from a broad range of open source communities that their support for...

As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation , it’s always great to see the growth and adoption of Apache community projects. The Apache Hadoop project is a prime example. Last year I blogged about how Microsoft was engaging with this vibrant community, Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data . Today,...

Need to set up a powerful wiki quickly? Looking for an open source bulletin board solution for your Windows Azure Web Site? Today, we are announcing the availability of MediaWiki and phpBB in the Windows Azure Web Applications gallery. MediaWiki is the open source software that powers WikiPedia and other...

TypeScript is a new open and interoperable language for application scale JavaScript development created by Microsoft and released as open source on CodePlex . You can learn about this typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript reading Soma’s blog . At Microsoft Open Technologies...

Today I’m happy to announce the open source release of the npm.net library. This is the same library that the WebMatrix team used to implement the NPM package discovery feature as explained in Justin’s blog . The library gives developers using managed code access to NPM commands to, for instance...

Microsoft at DrupalCon is becoming a tradition. After having partnered closely with the Drupal community to make Drupal available on Windows , Microsoft teams are continuing this engagement and are eager to meet Drupal developers in Munich next week. If you are going to the event, don’t miss the various...

Jason Zander blogged about new releases of Microsoft’s developer tools today – tools that include many contributions from the open source community with the MS Open Tech Hub on CodePlex . The OSS community helped build out the source code for ASP.NET MVC 4 , Web API , Web Pages 2 and Entity Framework...

It was great to see everyone at OSCON last week! The MS Open Tech team had a fun and productive week meeting new people, reconnecting with old friends, learning about the latest OSS trends, and playing with the amazing 82" Perceptive Pixel touch screen at our booth. Julian Cash took over 4000 photos...

Today marks a milestone since we launched Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech ) as we undertake some important open source projects. We’re excited to share the news that MS Open Tech will be open sourcing the Entity Framework (EF), a database mapping tool useful for application development...

Do you need to build a high-availability web application or service? One that can scale out quickly in response to fluctuating demand? Need to do complex queries against schema-free collections of rich objects? If you answer yes to any of those questions, MongoDB on Windows Azure is an approach you’ll...

Symfony and Doctrine are a popular combination for PHP developers, and now you can take full advantage of these open source frameworks on Windows Azure. We covered in a separate post the basics of getting started with Symfony on Windows Azure , and in this post we’ll take a look at Doctrine’s...

Symfony, the popular open source web application framework for PHP developers, is now even easier to use on Windows Azure thanks to Benjamin Eberlei’s Azure Distribution Bundle project. You can find the source code and documentation on the project’s GitHub repo . Symfony is a model-view...

The past few weeks have been very busy in our offices as we announced the creation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc . Now that the dust has settled it’s time for us to resume our regular cadence in releasing code, and we are happy to share with you the very first deliverable from our new company...

Starting today, the Metro style theme for JQuery Mobile , the popular open source mobile user interface framework, is available for download on GitHub and can be used as a NuGet package in Visual Studio . The theme enables HTML5 pages to adapt automatically to the Metro design style when rendered...

I am really excited to be able to share with you today that Microsoft has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., to advance the company’s investment in openness – including interoperability , open standards and open source . My existing Interoperability...

The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running on Drupal. Hosting it on Azure provides a scalable...

I am pleased to announce the beta release of the Windows Phone Toolkit for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Built by Microsoft as an open source project, this toolkit provides developers with a speed dial that lets them quickly connect and integrate Windows Phone applications with AWS (S3, SimpleDB, and SQS...