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Microsoft founds and funds open-source forum

...strategy at Microsoft. Ramji's departure from Microsoft was formally announced by Bill Hilf, Microsoft general manager of platform strategy, in a blog post on... Read more

11 September, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Solving Microsoft's Linux problem

As Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf spends half his time trying to figure out ways Windows can... Read more

16 August, 2005 by Ina Fried

Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V

...the benefits of virtualisation, Microsoft's general manager of Windows Server marketing, Bill Hilf, said: "Customers who buy Windows Server 2008 are not only getting... Read more

26 June, 2008 by Colin Barker

Microsoft to develop virtualisation management tools

...other vendors' virtualisation environments, and give the ability to manage cross platform." Bill Hilf, Microsoft general manager for Windows Server, told ZDNet.co.uk that... Read more

4 March, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move

...source community by our side now and for the long haul," said Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, on his blog. Hilf... Read more

22 February, 2008 by Steven Shankland

Microsoft aims for open-source certification

...Microsoft's relationship with collaborative development models and the free-software movement. Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, made the announcement in... Read more

30 July, 2007 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft teams up with SpikeSource

...business intelligence, enterprise content management, collaboration, email, CRM and web content management. Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft said that the partnership... Read more

27 July, 2007 by Colin Barker

Microsoft and Novell flesh out technical deal

...it easier to manage networks with Novell and Microsoft server software, said Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft. Specifically, the companies intend... Read more

13 February, 2007 by Martin LaMonica

Microsoft: Open source's best friend?

...of the company said the programme is still in the pilot stage. Bill Hilf, a platform strategy technology manager at Microsoft, insisted there is no... Read more

17 May, 2006 by Aaron Tan

Microsoft readies Linux lab's public face

...to sample feedback from customers who combine Microsoft and open source software. Bill Hilf, general manager of platform technology strategy at Microsoft, is expected to... Read more

6 April, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

SugarCRM unveils Microsoft collaboration

...commercial open source deal Microsoft has made for its server products, said Bill Hilf, Microsoft Technical Platform Strategy director. The first deal involved linking its... Read more

14 February, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

Gentoo Linux founder quits Microsoft

...of free and open source software's biggest critics. He worked under Bill Hilf, who runs Microsoft's Linux and Open Source Software Lab, and... Read more

14 February, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

JBoss-Microsoft partnership announced

...and is a driving force of consolidation of the Java space," said Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy. And Shaun Connolly, vice... Read more

27 September, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft hires Gentoo Linux founder

...an educational role at the company. "Daniel Robbins will be working under Bill Hilf who heads the Platform Value team's research lab in Redmond... Read more

16 June, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Collaboration takes centre stage for Office 12

...Ray Ozzie-led company that Microsoft acquired earlier this year, strategy executive Bill Hilf said at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco on Monday... Read more

17 May, 2005 by Ina Fried

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