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  • W3C Pointer Events Gains Further Web Momentum with Patch For Mozilla Firefox

    Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., (MS Open Tech) has made another contribution towards interoperable support for Pointer Events across Web platforms by publishing an early open source prototype of the W3C Pointer Events Candidate Recommendation for Mozilla Firefox. This patch contribution advances the momentum around use of Pointer Events to build interoperable web sites that work [...]

  • MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Patch for OpenSSL to Enable HTTP/2.0 Secure Negotiation

    As part of our commitment to the progress of HTTP/2.0 in an open and interoperable fashion, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has yesterday reached out to the OpenSSL community with a proposed contribution supporting Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the OpenSSL encryption libraries. We submitted a patch request to http://www.openssl.org/ that implements the relevant part [...]

  • Windows Azure Mobile Service updates and added support for Android push notifications via Google Cloud Messaging

    Listening to the developers’ feedback, the Windows Azure Mobile Services team is releasing new features and updates to make Mobile Services a more robust and flexible backend for mobile apps that scale. Contributing its expertise in bridging Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, MS Open Tech built the new Android Notification Hubs SDK and updated the Android [...]

  • ActorFx v0.50 – more stability, scalability, extensibility, Inter-Actor programmability and a new MapReduce demo for our cloud based Actor Runtime

    By the ActorFx team: Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Joe Hoag, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Open Technologies Hub Brian Grunkemeyer, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Open Technologies Hub   The ActorFx team is happy to announce that the ActorFx v0.50 is available now, with several improvements since our v0.40 release in [...]

  • New Tutorial: Using Apache ZooKeeper on Windows Azure to Manage Solr on Linux Virtual Machines

    Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we’ve been working with the top open source DevOps, application and data tools to make popular open source packages easy to deploy and manage on Windows Azure. This work gives developers the ability to take combine powerful open source technologies in new and unusual ways in the cloud to [...]

  • MS Open Tech, W3C Pointer Events and the JavaScript Community at JSConf 2013

    Adoption of Pointer Events Grows with Upcoming Implementation for Dojo Toolkit The W3C Pointer Events emerging standard continues to gain traction, advancing support for interoperable mouse, touch, and pen interactions across the web. Pointer Events makes it easier to support a variety of browsers and devices by saving Web developers from writing unique code for [...]

  • Now on IE and Firefox: Debug your mobile HTML5 page remotely with weinre (WEb INspector REmote)

    Great news for HTML5 mobile developers: the remote DOM inspector tool weinre is no longer restricted to Webkit-based browsers and can be used with Internet Explorer 10 or Firefox, thanks to the community contribution with technical support from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. WEb INspector REmote Weinre (WEb INspector REmote) is an HTML5 debugging tool addressing [...]

  • Entity Framework V6 (EF6) Beta 1 from Microsoft Includes Latest & Greatest Open Source Contributions

    Microsoft Corp. has just announced the Beta 1 release of Entity Framework 6 (EF6).  EF6 combines the latest and greatest open source community contributions with key features and tooling that you were asking for.  Here’s the official announcement with a full list of new features. As you might recall, last summer Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. [...]

  • MS Open Tech Brings the Creative World of Cinder to Windows Store Applications

    Great news for Agencies, Creative Coders and Design Engineers The open source programming library Cinder is growing in popularity for creative coding in C++, and now these cool Cinder coders can extend the reach of their apps to a broader audience on the Windows Store. Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech), and the Microsoft [...]

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