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Covering interoperability scenarios, the technologies enabling them and the community at large, by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Azure Toolkit for Eclipse with Java Update: Zulu, Java SDK, Bug Fixes

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech), has released a new update to the Azure Toolkit for...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 08/14/2014

MongoDB on Azure – Onsite in New York City!

Excitement is in the air for the MongoDB community and Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. this week...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 06/24/2014

June Update to the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse - Zulu, Java SDK, and More!

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech), has released a minor June update to the Azure...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 06/23/2014

News from TechEd 2014: Portability and flexibility with ASP.NET vNext

Outside, the Houston weather for the opening day of TechEd 2014 is a little gloomy, but inside the...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/12/2014

Microsoft announces Apache Cordova integration in Visual Studio for Multi-Device Hybrid App development

Today at TechEd US, Microsoft announced the preview release of Visual Studio tooling support for...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 05/12/2014

Microsoft Open Technologies is publishing the new open source WebSQL plugin for Apache Cordova and...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 05/05/2014

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., is pleased to announce that the recently released Java Developer...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/02/2014

AMQP v1.0 approved as an International Standard

The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) v1.0 has been approved as an International Standard by...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 05/01/2014

6 things you need to do to port your Cocos2D-x game to Windows devices

Cocos2D-x is a great open source C++ cross-platform gaming engine for building games for mobile...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 05/01/2014

Enjoy Spring, and new updates to our Open Source Azure Storage Plugin for Jenkins

Spring is in the air, and as we celebrate these longer days and warmer air and sprinkles of sunshine...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/25/2014

MongoLab offers new options for MongoDB Developers on Azure

As many of you know, MongoLab is an easy to use, rock-solid, free MongoDB-as-a-Service offering...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/22/2014

New Bing Translator Plugin lets users localize your WordPress site into the language of their choice

Good news for WordPress developers and webmasters!  Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/10/2014

April Updates to the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse– Azure SDK 2.3, Tomcat 8, New Zulu versions, and more!

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has now published the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse (by Microsoft...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 04/07/2014

OData v4.0 and OData JSON Format v4.0 approved as OASIS Standards

Ram Jeyaraman, co-Chair of the OASIS OData Technical Committee, and Senior Standards Professional,...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 03/17/2014

VM Depot Crosses Another Milestone

In January of last year, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) launched VM Depot- a...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 03/14/2014

Corona SDK coming to Windows devices thanks to open source ANGLE project

Corona SDK, the popular mobile 2D platform made by Corona Labs, now offers closed beta support for...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 03/13/2014

Oracle Database, WebLogic Server and JDK are now Generally Available on Windows Azure

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc, is pleased to share the news that select Oracle Software is now...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 03/13/2014

Vagrant Supports Hyper-V "Out-of-the-box"

Our code providing Hyper-V support to Vagrant has been included in the latest Vagrant 1.5 release,...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 03/11/2014

Tutorial: Finding Virtual Machine Images for Windows Azure in VM Depot

For users of VM Depot, our repository of community managed Virtual Machines for Azure, we have added...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 03/10/2014

Using Chef to Manage Windows Azure Resources

Chef is an open source DevOps tool built to address hard IT infrastructure challenges. The team at...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 03/07/2014

Android and Java Developers: MS Open Tech has a SignalR SDK for You!

Today, Microsoft Open Technologies is releasing a SignalR software development kit for Android/Java...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 03/06/2014

Kinect Common Bridge update

The newest release of Kinect Common Bridge makes it even easier to track faces and recognize speech...

Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 02/25/2014

Vagrant and Hyper-V Provides Managed DevOps Work Environments

MS Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech) has released code for Vagrant that brings initial Hyper-V...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 02/24/2014

February 22 is International Open Data Day – Celebrate with our Tutorial or create your own!

Open Data Day Events around the world! Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. we have a lot of...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/20/2014

February Updates to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse – SSL Support, plus new JDKs, Windows Azure configurations and more

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has released the February preview of the Windows Azure Toolkit...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/10/2014

Now Available through Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Package for Windows

We have great news for Java developers planning to deploy the latest Azul Zulu OpenJDK v1.7 package...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 02/07/2014

New Open Source Portable Class Library for SQLite

Microsoft Open Technologies has released an interesting Portable Class Library for SQLite, offering...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 02/03/2014

As stated in the Blink 2014 goals, the Blink team considers Pointer Events as one of their...

Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 01/30/2014

MS Open Tech is expanding into China!

Today I’m happy to report that Microsoft Open Technologies is expanding its presence to China with a...

Author: gianugo Date: 01/16/2014

Acceptance of Media Source Extensions as W3C Candidate Recommendation will accelerate adoption of dash.js

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. welcomes the news that the Media Source Extensions (MSE)...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 01/09/2014

New release - Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces)

We are proud to announce the release of Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces), an open source project to help...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 01/06/2014

MPEG-DASH Tutorial: Embedding an adaptive streaming video within your HTML5 application

Poor quality streaming video solutions resulted in an estimated $2.16 Billion of lost revenue in...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 01/03/2014

MS Open Tech working with the ANGLE Project community to increase apps’ portability to Windows Devices

Microsoft Open Technologies is working with the ANGLE Project community to enable ANGLE in Windows...

Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 12/20/2013

Windows Azure Provisioning of Linux and Windows via Puppet

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) is pleased to announce that the release of a new...

Author: Ross Gardler Date: 12/11/2013

New Reactive Extension Support for JavaScript Developers – Compatibility Builds, a lite version, and other improvements in RxJS 2.2

From the Rx team, Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, MS Open Tech Snesha Foss, Senior...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 12/11/2013

The MS Open Tech Hub releases Rx 2.2

From the Rx team: Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, MS Open Tech Snesha Foss, Senior...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 12/05/2013

MS Open Tech releases updated Azure Node.JS SDK and Command Line Tools for Mac and Linux

More news for our Linux friends deploying virtual machines to the cloud. Today at Microsoft Open...

Author: Eduard Koller Date: 12/03/2013

AMQP 1.0 is one step closer to being recognized as an ISO/IEC International Standard

From Ram Jeyaraman, Senior Standards Professional, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. and co-Chair of...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 11/21/2013

ActorFx Updates – New features, improved performance and a new plugin to ease deployment to Windows Azure

From the ActorFx team: Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Open Technologies,...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 11/14/2013

Showcasing Open Source Community Contributors to Entity Framework, ASP.NET and Web API for Visual Studio

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.’s Hub engineering program continues to be a great place for...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 11/14/2013

Katana 2 is Available!

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. is pleased to share the news of a new version of Katana – Katana...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 10/23/2013

From HTML5DevConf: Pointer Events interoperability public demo of Firefox build integrating MS Open Tech’s contribution

Today, at the HTML5 Developers Conference, Microsoft demonstrated a build of Mozilla Firefox...

Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 10/22/2013

Updated Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – New JDK and App Server Options, Simplified Publishing

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has released the October preview of the Windows Azure Plugin for...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 10/22/2013

After Pointer Events, here comes Interoperable Panning Experiences through CSS Scrolling Snap Points

Today, Microsoft submitted a new proposal to the W3C – “CSS Scrolling Snap...

Author: Adalberto Foresti [MS OPEN TECH] Date: 10/22/2013

Free Webinar on October 16 - MongoDB, Jaspersoft and Windows Azure: Building Open Source Reporting and Analytics in the Cloud

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., Jaspersoft and MongoDB have teamed up to deliver a webinar on...

Author: Brian Benz Date: 10/14/2013

MS Open Tech releases Kinect Common Bridge, a simple open source way for infusing the magic of Kinect in creative development

Want to control your 3D model animation with your body, Minority Report style? We’ve got you...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/14/2013

New contribution from MS Open Tech: full Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 support in Cocos2D-X

Using (or planning to use) Cocos2D-X to build mobile cross platform games in C++? You will certainly...

Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/30/2013

Announcing the first Node hackathon in Redmond, November 7-8

The MS Open Tech team has been working with the Node.js community for more than two years to deliver...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 09/26/2013

Azul Systems Releases Zulu, an OpenJDK Build for Windows Azure, in Partnership with MS Open Tech

Today I’m happy to report the news that our Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., (MS Open Tech)...

Author: gianugo Date: 09/25/2013

A sneak peek at four new Nagios and Zabbix plugins for Windows Azure

Busy times at MS Open Tech! Today we’d like to share with the Azure community a sneak peek at...

Author: Eduard Koller Date: 09/19/2013

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