At MIX09, Microsoft released several components of the Microsoft Web Platform, an integrated set of tools, servers and frameworks that work seamlessly together and interoperate with popular open-source applications. Now it's in the process of building out a marketplace for open-source applications that could work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support for open-source technology that runs on the Windows platform.LAS VEGAS—Microsoft is in the
process of building out a marketplace for open-source applications that could
work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support
for open-source technology that runs on the Windows platform.
At the Microsoft MIX09 conference here, Lauren Cooney, group product manager
for Web Platform and Standards at Microsoft, said there is a new movement at
Microsoft under way and she is part of the new blood leading the way toward
that brave new world, particularly on the Web. Cooney, who came to Microsoft
after stints at both IBM and BEA Systems,
where she worked with Java and open-source Web and emerging technologies, said
a key slogan with her group is, "Make Web not war."
As such, at MIX09, Microsoft released several components of the Microsoft Web Platform, an integrated
set of tools, servers and frameworks that work seamlessly together and
interoperate with popular open-source applications and products that are used
in the community.
Included in the Microsoft Web Platform vision is the Web Platform Installer
2.0 beta, a tool that simplifies the installation and update of Microsoft’s
free Web products and other free Web components. This release allows users to
download both PHP and the final release of ASP.NET
MVC 1.0.
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