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October 28, 2008
This week at our semi-regular Professional Developer’s Conference, several announcements have been made regarding Microsoft’s newest foray into cloud computing, Microsoft Azure.
From the announcement:
The Azure Services Platform has been built from the ground up with interoperability in mind. With its standards-based and interoperable approach, the services platform supports multiple Internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, […]
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October 24, 2008
Building on my post from the other day, I wanted to point out that today Microsoft announced that it had been invited to join the AMQP Working Group. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol is an open specification supported by open source communities. The specification addresses the issue of enterprise messaging, which is of critical importance […]
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October 22, 2008
Last week, Microsoft’s Deputy General Counsel for IP Licensing, Horacio Gutierrez, sat down for an interview with Infoworld. I found it to be a very straightforward and understandable description of the ways Microsoft continues to evolve its approach to intellectual property to meet customer needs.
First, Some History…
As Horacio pointed out in the article, December will […]
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July 25, 2007
Throughout history, our concept of a “document” has been everything from cuneiform writing on clay tablets to quill etchings on parchment to the multi-font typing of an IBM Selectric typewriter. Even today, at the dawn of the 21st century, the popular concept of a document is still something you create in a word processor […]
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July 25, 2007
There has been a lot of discussion in forums around the world regarding the current ISO review. And the hubbub seems to be growing as the September 2nd deadline for the technical review of the specification draws ever nearer. In a lot of the discussions I both see and hear about, I am […]
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May 17, 2007
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had voted in support of adding the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.0 to the American National Standards List, thereby making ODF a non-exclusive national standard of the United States. This is a typical move by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to make national standards from ISO-adopted specifications.
Microsoft’s actions, […]
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April 24, 2007
Hi there, I’m Greg Thomas. This site is my attempt to build in cyberspace a repository for my thoughts, opinions, and writings on various subjects. I tend to have thoughts and opinions on a wide variety of subjects, and I figure that a blog is an excellent way to post this content where it readable […]
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My name is Greg Thomas. Although I work at Microsoft, the postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the positions or opinions of my employer.
