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May 2009 - Posts

common ground between Microsoft and the OSS community is more common than not these days...
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 Read More...
More on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2...this time from the ODF community
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 Read More...
Microsoft and Sun release white paper on interoperability via SAML federation standard
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 Read More...
PHP SDK for Windows Azure
Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/05/13/announcing-php-sdk-for-windows-azure-and-much-more.aspx Read More...
Virtualization with Hyper-V and Platespin
Upcoming eSeminar from Ziff Davis featuring Microsoft and Novell. Register here - http://www.eseminarslive.com/c/a/Virtualization/Microsoft052709/ Read More...
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 fostering Interop for doc formats
...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 Read More...
PHP + SQL Server 2008
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 Read More...
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