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Microsoft licenses Web Sandbox under Apache 2.0


By David Worthington
January 30, 2009 — 
Microsoft's Live Labs team released on Monday the source code of its Web Sandbox runtime under the Apache 2.0 open-source license in an effort to broaden its acceptance.

Web Sandbox, which was initially released at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in October of last year, isolates Web content, such as advertisements, mashup components and gadgets, to help developers provide higher service quality and greater security.

Aside from security, Web Sandbox normalizes the behavior of Web browsers to provide consistent W3C DOM support without requiring any browser add-ons or changes.

Microsoft encourages developers to contribute to Web Sandbox, but it does not recommend using it for production sites, said open-source community manager Peter Galli in the company's Port 25 blog.

He added that Microsoft's goal is to drive an open standard that will enable interoperability among complementary technologies, like script frameworks.

"Interoperability and integration are the two knottiest issues outside of security that confront businesses today with respect to network infrastructure," said Laura DiDio, principal analyst of Information Technology Intelligence Corp. "Anything Microsoft can do to play nice with 'the community' helps the respective customers."

Galli explained that the Web Sandbox was created in response to those limitations found in the current Web platform, and that Microsoft would like to use Web Sandbox to explore potential solutions.

"Having a more secure and robust architecture as a foundational building block will help drive the next wave of Web innovation," said Galli.

While Microsoft is licensing Web Sandbox under the Apache 2.0 open-source license, the project is neither sponsored nor sanctioned by the Apache Software Foundation.


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