Goobye CardSpace, hello U-Prove. Does anyone care?
This is just a short rant … so if you don’t care about federated identity, claims-based authentication, OpenID, CardSpace, etc … just skip it. Last week Microsoft publicly admitted that CardSpace is dead. There’s a story about it at Redmond mag which mentions that although they’ve decided not to release CardSpace 2.0, they’re not giving [...]
FYI: Visual Studio 2010 Technical Readiness Training
I got an email about this earlier, and figured I’d share it. There’s a four-part technical readiness Live Meeting series for Visual Studio 2010 coming up in a couple of weeks. Visual Studio 2010 became available on April 12. To help you get started and get the most value from this release, Microsoft has picked [...]
Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what?
I got really worked up earlier this week when @MicrosoftSubnet tweeted that Microsoft Acquires Teamprise Assets, Provides Cross-Platform Support for Visual Studio … and linked to that article. I clicked the link, read the headline … picked myself up off the floor, posted the link in half the IRC channels I hang out in, and [...]
Windows Compatability Libraries Galore (including PowerShell 2 for XP)
Microsoft has been very busy this year … and in these last couple of months before the general availability of Windows 7, they’re trying very hard to crank out the tools necessary to encourage development of Windows 7 applications. The first tool out of the gate, of course, was the Windows API Code Pack for [...]
Please open up PowerShell on Connect!
I had to submit a bug to the Visual Studio connection this week and was pleasantly surprised, even astonished, at how easy their site is to use compared to PowerShell’s. First of all, their connection URL is: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio … as opposed to the PowerShell connection, which has the url: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=99 … Secondly, I could search [...]
Microsoft Code Gallery
Microsoft has released a new website this week that I can only describe as the other half of GotDotNet. If you used to use GotDotNet, you know there were two reasons to go there: the third party projects that were hosted there, and the Microsoft Samples. GotDotNet was replaced by CodePlex, and a lot of [...]
The PowerShell Community “Responds”
Normally I post responses as edits at the bottom of a post, but apparently Don Jones was offended by this post, so I figure, as a gesture of peace, I’ll post this as a fresh story, with just a link to the original post and the comments posted by Don and Karl. Apparently Don Jones [...]
Redefining Community
The Microsoft-funded PowerShell community site was launched over the weekend, complete with 501.3c non-profit status and everything. Of course, in reality it’s a joint venture between Microsoft and Sapien, with Don Jones at the helm and Microsoft MVPs as the only other contributors at this point (where “contributors” is loosely put — they’ve made the [...]
Ms-PL and Ms-RL gain OSI approval
From last friday: Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL). The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the [...]