[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“The project is called Mayhem, a scripting system that’s
spinning out of the Applied Sciences Group at Microsoft. project
into the newly-formed Innovators Gallery. The idea behind Mayhem is
to enable users to interconnect services and devices within the
Windows ecosystem.“At this point, the open source faithful might be wondering why
they should care about any of this. Windows? Devices? Hang on,
we’re getting there.“First off, Mayhem is open source, and has been from its
inception. According to Paul Dietz, Mayhem Project Leader, as soon
as the team at the Applied Science Group started putting Mayhem
together, they realized that in order to meet the challenge of
hardware communication on a near-universal scale, they were going
to have to rely on open source development practices. “