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Microsoft Puts Weight Behind Open Source Projects With Web Platform Installer
TechCrunch — Microsoft isn’t exactly known for championing open source projects. So it’s rather surprising (in a good way) to see the company release something called the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which makes it possible to batch install a set of open source projects on Windows Vista or Server 2008. These projects include DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and Wordpress. As InfoWorld points out, Microsoft itself isn’t technically the distributor of these projects since users are merely obtaining them ...

Microsoft Launches Open Source Web App Installer
SitePoint — ... A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released their Web Platform Installer (Web PI), a free downloadable application that installs and configures their entire web platform stack. The application installs the latest versions of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, IIS7.0 and Extensions, IIS FastCGI, Visual Web Developer 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, SQL Server Management Studio, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight Tools. The idea is that the Web PI makes it easier for for developers to install the entire Microsoft web stack and then stay up-to-date with the latest releases. ...

Microsoft dances with open source businesses
Open Source — ... of Web platform installers which can get open source developers conversant with tools like ASP .Net, Silverlight, and the .Net Framework. ...

Open Source Installs, Courtesy Of ... Microsoft?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Oct 17, 2008 12:27 PM [image] Earlier this week Microsoft took another step towards making open source part of their balanced breakfast: they introduced the Web Platform Installer . It not only installs Microsoft's own Web stack, but a slew of common open-source web apps. Prepare to see more flying pigs, I say. The package is actually quite a clever arrangement. According to the ...

Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... To try out Azure you need to be running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista with a bunch of prerequisites you can get from running the Microsoft Web Platform installer. Once you have the various prerequisites installed (SQL Server, IIS 7, .NET Framework 3.5, etc) you should then grab the ...

Microsoft Web Platform Installer (RC)
D' Technology Weblog — ... Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Now supporting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Web PI makes it easy to install and stay up-to-date with the Microsoft Web Platform. This updated release lets you install ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Tools for Silverlight, and much more! Download ...

BarCamp Liverpool & Microsoft
Geek In Disguise — ... includes link to the Web Platform Installer which auto configures a machine for building and running web applications on Windows in ASP.NET or PHP ...

MS Web PI provides an easy way to roll IIS, SQL, .NET
Download Squad — ... WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installers have been around for ages, and provide an easy way for anyone to quickly set up a platform for developing web apps on their Windows desktop. If, however, you're looking to play in the Microsoft sandbox, there's now a ...