Microsoft

Every successful corporation has a responsibility to use its resources and influence to make a positive impact on the world and its people. Microsoft is focused on mobilizing our resources across the company and around the world, to create opportunities in the communities where we do business, and to fulfill our commitment to serving the public good through innovative technologies and partnerships.

Microsoft provides training and tools that create the social and economic opportunities that can transform communities and help people realize their potential. Through our programs and our partnerships, Microsoft supports numerous projects and organizations around the world working to expand opportunities, and help improve digital inclusion, through technology access and training.

Drupal 7, produced by Drupal Association volunteer coders, now works with Microsoft's SQL Server relational database management system products and is distributed through the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. It's also distributed from the Drupal Web site and Commerce Guys, an organization dedicated to Drupal-based e-commerce apps. Drupal is an open source, PHP-based CM system for creating websites, blogs and e-commerce sites.

Microsoft has also included Drupal 7 in its WebMatrix tool, which was released on Jan. 13. WebMatrix is a free Web site creation tool that supports a number of open source applications integrated with Microsoft's IIS 7.5 Express Web server.