Microsoft Windows platform strategy Sam Ramji department director, said today at Microsoft want to see many open source software running at Windows on. He also said now is not all commercial users are willing to pay for software to ensure that open source software running on Windows at Microsoft for the very meaningful.
Ramji also said, there are currently more than 80,000 kinds of open source software to support Windows systems, Microsoft has to support Java and PHP will work as a Windows system restore a key part of the vitality of the market. The company in the past few years, PHP has commercial sponsors cooperation Zend to improve PHP on Windows support. He also pointed out that they already are trying to use Microsoft technologies to open source some of the cause go.
iPhone App of the iPhone software publishers more and more sought-after model, and even Microsoft have also launched the popular open-source server software "App Store". Called "Web App Gallery" Service hosted a variety of open source server tools, through the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) to simplify installation, allows developers to know, research, and download applications and components, assist the development of Web applications, developers Gallery can also upload a free Web application.
Gallery contains applications including Acquia Drupal, DotNetNuke, WordPress, ScrewTurn Wiki, SilverStripe CMS and so on. This is Microsoft's open-source embrace rather than resist the new signs.
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