I'm hearing Microsoft may be gearing up to deliver new standalone dev tools for building HTML5 client applications, and also may be adding HTML5 support to Visual Studio. Could Mix '11 be the launch pad for these efforts?
Open source backers may aspire to a world in which software rivalries are a thing of the past. But at least for now, there's an undeniable rift forming within the ranks.
Don't look now, but Microsoft is continuing to open source many of its own technologies, even though it is still competing with Linux and Android vendors.
The moral of this week's story: You can't have it both ways.The examples are many.
Microsoft is moving two of its development languages -- IronPython and IronRuby -- as well as the company's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to an Apache open-source license, company officials acknowledged on July 19.
Microsoft is porting its server-side .NET stack to Linux and Mac OS X, and is making more of that stack available as open source.
Microsoft is open sourcing the Xamarin software development kit, and is making Xamarin Studio for OSX available for no additional cost for Visual Studio Enterprise users.
On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure.
Two keepers of open-source code -- the CodePlex Foundation and the OpenOffice.org Project -- have rebranded themselves as of September 28.
Representatives from 13 companies and organizations took to the podium Tuesday at LinuxWorld here with one unified intention: to combat Microsoft's dominance on the desktop.