• Node.js Library for Authentication with Windows Azure Active Directory

    Node.js developers: add some Windows Azure authentication and access control to your Node app with the newly MS Open Tech’s released open source library for Windows Azure Active Directory service. Windows Azure Active Directory is a REST based service that provides authentication and access control functionality for web applications. Libraries are available that make integrating [...]

  • Greetings Symfony Live – New tools for Symfony developers on Windows Azure

    I Hope everyone at Symfony live in Portland this week is having a good time – I wish I could join you in person! I wanted to share some exciting news about recently released updates to Windows Azure tools for Symfony that Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has been supporting. Benjamin Eberlei’s Azure Distribution Bundle project [...]

  • Hortonworks HDP — Open Source Apache Hadoop Distribution is Enterprise-ready

    Generally Available on Linux, Windows Server and Windows Azure. From: Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Open Source Communities, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Great news! Hortonworks’ HDP for Windows is now generally available on Windows and Linux. Here’s what the Microsoft SQL Server team had to say about the GA release (The Beta was announced and [...]

  • W3C Pointer Events Gains Momentum Within Web Communities

    MS Open Tech Announces Intent to Implement in Blink While Continuing WebKit Implementation The W3C Pointer Events emerging standard continues to gain traction, advancing support for interoperable mouse, touch, and pen interactions across the web. Today, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) made the first step towards interoperable support for Pointer Events in Blink [...]

  • Redis on Windows – new version and NuGet Packages

    Continuing our support for Redis on Windows, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has just released the latest version (2.6.12).  It has been tested and validated by our test team using the same process we used in the past to ensure stability and reliability. We’ve also released Redis-32 and Redis-64 NuGet packages to make it easier to [...]

  • Accelerating Start-ups with open source, and Windows Azure Accelerators

    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 I’m fascinated by how open source can [...]

  • A new way for iOS and Android users to access corporate resources: The Application Gateway

    Every CIO today has mobile VPN access sitting very high on the priority list and knows how mobile connectivity to corporate resources is an important yet complicate matter. In a quest to solve the VPN issue in a simple way, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. created AppGateway, an application of VPN access for Android and iOS [...]

  • If you’re working with Java on Windows Azure, this update is for you!

    From: Martin Sawicki – Principal Program Manager – MS Open Tech Brian Benz – Sr. Technical Evangelist – MS Open Tech Incorporating developer feedback and keeping pace with Windows Azure’s ongoing evolution, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has released a new update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse. This latest version – the May 2013 Preview (or v2.0.0) – includes [...]

  • MS Open Tech, Linux and Open Source at LinuxFest 2013

    I was fortunate to be invited to speak on behalf of MS Open Tech at last weekend’s LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA. This was a local event with a wide variety of developers and tech enthusiasts who gathered at Bellingham Technical College to participate in a broad spectrum of presentations, demonstrations, and labs. My presentation [...]