Microsoft is said to be resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo, which will help it better compete with search leader Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2007
Visual
Basic guru Paul Vick revealed this week on his blog that the company is
working on a reboot of Visual Basic, dubbed at this stage VBx
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/03/2007
BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, says Microsoft product manager.
Use pigs to find truffles and use Netcap to do quick and dirty packet captures.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/02/2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it expects to cut more than 1,000 jobs at its Rio Rancho plant as the company ends production of an older silicon wafer technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2007
IdentityMine has released a community technology preview, or CTP, of a toolset for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers called "Blendables."
Some files and folders are just too stubborn to delete easily. Try these tips.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 05/01/2007
Microsoft Corp. likes to promote Windows Vista as its most secure operating system release ever. And with good reason. After all, the company put a lot of software-development elbow grease into its top-to-bottom redesign of Vista's default security experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/01/2007
A niche software company says it will rename one of its programs, admitting
defeat in a three-year effort to win money from Microsoft Corp. after it claimed
the name was too close to Excel.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/01/2007
Vista kind of hides this cool little utility that can be used for quickly peeking over a firewall or other security tricks.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/30/2007
The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts
the reach of U.S. patents overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/30/2007
Capability will allow developers to program against Silverlight for both Windows and Mac environments using any .NET-supported languages
Microsoft today announced Silverlight Streaming, a media-hosting service the company says will allow developers to stream into their Silverlight apps high-quality video and other media stored for free on Redmond's servers.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 04/30/2007
On April 28, Microsoft confirmed in a blog posting that the ADO.NET Entity Framework is now officially out of the next version of Visual Studio codenamed Orcas.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/30/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E).
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/27/2007
A growing number of financial services firms are embarking on open source projects, but they are moving cautiously when it comes to mission-critical applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2007
South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007