Bill Hilf: Open Source at Microsoft

Originally uploaded Sep 16, 2006 by Charles I recently caught up with Microsoft's general manager for competitive strategy, Bill Hilf (you've seen him before (https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=65537)on Channel 9), to talk about, what else, open source software and Microsoft's position on it. Sure, we have shared source, etc, but what is Microsoft doing in the open source software space? Why do we have an open source lab, what's going on there, and what was Mozilla doing there recently??? Bill and team have a lot of respect for Channel 9 and created an off-shoot that targets the open source community, called Port 25 (https://port25.technet.com/ (https://port25.technet.com/)). What is Port 25 and why? We also cover the questions: Why don't we produce open source software at Microsoft? Why don't we not "open source" products like Office?This is a very frank, honest and fun conversation sans marketing hyperbole, which is why we love talking to Bill! ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: A look inside Microsoft in the 2000s, including the development of Windows Vista, courtesy of MSDN’s Channel 9. These videos are fairly hard to discover, and many are in the proprietary WMV video format not supported by modern devices. We bring these to you on YouTube so you can appreciate the people behind the tremendous work put into these Microsoft products. This content is provided by Microsoft on the channel9.msdn.com website under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://channel9.msdn.com/info). I do not own these videos or make money from posting them. Contact channel business email for takedowns.