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

Mixed IT Customers

Investing in Standards

150+

standards organizations

400+

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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