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Microsoft and Novell Technical Interoperability Update

By Jose Thomas Hi, I’m Jose Thomas, Technical Solutions Director for Strategic Partnerships and Licensing at Microsoft. Three years ago, Microsoft and Novell announced a partnership that was received with surprise and skepticism by the IT industry and customers alike. (Watch the press release at http://www.moreinterop.com/) What could possibly drive these two companies into a partnership considering the long history of competition behind them?  The answer to this question is simple – customers and their complex IT environments.  Over the years, in search of efficiency and competitive advantage, customers started to look at the end promise of mixed source environments without always considering the plumbing that needs to be done to get disparate systems to work as one. This is where the Microsoft and Novell Technical Collaboration comes into play.  Engineers from both companies work side-by-side in our joint Cambridge, MA, lab working to test our interop solutions and ensure that they work better together. [More ...]

Project Apache Stonehenge: progress and roadmap discussed at ApacheCon

I, along with other Microsoft colleagues, participated in the ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland, CA this week. This week also marks the 10^th Anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation – so congratulations to the ASF and overall Apache community, which has steadily grown and sustained over the past decade! Microsoft is now actively participating in several Apache projects and becoming part of the core community. [More ...]

PHP with Bing Maps

The Toolkit for PHP with Virtual Earth aka Bing Maps is one of the useful tools that we announced and on our Interoperability Bridges site. The toolkit provides a set of files that allow you to connect your server running PHP to a set of client web browser files in JQuery, Javascript, JSON that in turn access the Virtual Earth or Bing maps services in the cloud via request/responses. [More ...]

Partnering to foster Eclipse and Microsoft platform interoperability

I’m very happy about today’s announcements at the Eclipse Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Microsoft,Tasktop and Soyatec announced a series of projects to help developers using the Eclipse platform do two things: take advantage of new features in Microsoft® Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2 and reinforce Java and PHP interoperability with Windows® Azure and Microsoft® Silverlight. In the first of the four projects, Microsoft is partnering with Tasktop Technologies, a leading Eclipse-based solutions provider from Canada, to create an Eclipse “next-generation experience” on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, which shares the same user interface improvements. [More ...]

Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation

By Paul Lorimer, Group Manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability