Video Message from Ross
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami
warning for the Pacific coast of most of Central and
South America.
“We couldn’t report breaking news, much less
interact with our users, and we needed an
immediate solution,” Luis Zarnowski, Interactive
Media Manager, Teletica
7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Wreaked Havoc
Tsunami Warning
Solution: Windows Azure
“able to reliably
host our website
with its high
volume traffic,
we were also
able to deploy
the application
our users so
desperately
needed in about
45 minutes,”
Zarnowski ,
Teletica
An open and flexible cloud platform
Surprise? It’s Open Source
“The idea of interoperability was
a fundamental factor here
because the applications they
had were open source, but that
was no obstacle for us,” Yuri
Poras, Director of New
Technology, Microsoft Costa Rica
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working groups
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Microsoft + Linux
• Linux runs as a first-class guest on Windows Server Hyper-V
• Supported on Windows Azure Virtual Machines (CentOS, openSUSE, SUSE, Ubuntu)
“Microsoft is playing quite
nicely with Linux and other
open source tools. “
-Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise
Microsoft + Apache Hadoop
• Embracing the Big Data revolution with enterprise-ready Hadoopas part of Windows Azure HDInsight & Microsoft HDInsight for Windows Server
• Utilize Microsoft BI tools to unleash data insights from all your data, including those in Hadoop
Microsoft + Java
• Great Java experience on Windows Server and Windows Azure
• Windows Azure plug-in for Eclipse with Java
Microsoft + PHP
• Impressive performance on Windows Server and Windows Azure
• Open source community development of PHP on Windows right alongside Linux
Microsoft + Firefox
• Well supported across Microsoft cloud services (Bing, Office 365, SkyDrive, Skype)
• Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in
• msnNOW for Firefox
Microsoft + Drupal
• Improved interoperability with Drupal to better manage web content
• Microsoft WebMatrixmakes it easy for anyone to create and manage a Drupal site
Microsoft + Node.js
• Support for a new class of real-time applications
• Improved Windows and Linux experience
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js
“A few years back, a patch
submission from coders at
Microsoft would have been
amazing to the point of
unthinkable, but the battles
are mostly over and times
have changed.
Microsoft + SAMBA
• Submitted a patch to the Samba code to improve interoperability, contributed under GPL2+
• Working with the Samba team to support SMB protocol
Add Start-up Support
Add Local Partners
•MS Open Tech brings a new WebSQL plugin for Apache Cordova and enhancements
to the popular Contacts plugin
•6 things you need to do to port your Cocos2D-x game to Windows devices
•Streamlined Video Content Management with Orchard and Azure Media Services
•Cocos2d-x 3.0 coming to Windows Devices
•Cocos2d-X Performance Enhancements: A 25% improvement that may save your life!
•Acceptance of Media Source Extensions as W3C Candidate Recommendation will
accelerate adoption of dash.js
•Apache Cordova 3.2 is here along with enhanced support for Windows devices
•GDC Next, Windows QuickStart Challenge and Cocos2D-X
•Easily port your Cocos2D-X game to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
•Add a pinch of Pointer Events to your Apache Cordova or PhoneGap app
• Streamlined Video Content Management with Orchard and Azure Media Services
• Simple Ways to Deploy VM Depot Open Source Stacks on Azure
• VM Depot Now Landing in China!
• VM Depot Crosses Another Milestone
• Tutorial: Finding Virtual Machine Images for Windows Azure in VM Depot
• Redis on Windows – new version and NuGet Packages
• Redis on Windows – stable and reliable
• One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows, MS Open Tech releases 64-
bit and Azure installer
• Getting Started with VM Depot
• Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows
Automation scenarios for Azure
Development Testing
StagingProduction
• Puppet Module Updates to Better Manage Microsoft Azure Resources
• Enjoy Spring, and new updates to our Open Source Azure Storage Plugin for
Jenkins
• Please pass the Salt!
• Vagrant Supports Hyper-V “out of the box”
• Using Chef to Manage Windows Azure Resources
• Vagrant and Hyper-V Provides Managed DevOps Work Environments
• New release – Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces)
• Windows Azure Provisioning of Linux and Windows via Puppet
• A sneak peek at four new Nagios and Zabbix plugins for Windows Azure
• New Hudson plugin using Windows Azure Storage as a repository
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