Microsoft and Novell have stepped up their collaborative efforts on open source operating system technology and intellectual property by moving their controversial enterprise Linux licensing agreement into the Chinese market.
Team Sparx takes away top honor and trip to global final in Paris in July.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/22/2008
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/22/2008
Microsoft rolled out its Dynamics CRM Online platform today as a generally available service.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
The PCI Security Standards Council this week announced plans to issue new guidelines that it hopes will give transaction application developers and security specialists a clear direction to the path of least resistance when it comes to assessing risks surrounding customer and vendor data -- most notably, credit card and payment information.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft revealed "Albany," a consumer-oriented hosted service that provides Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications, plus security and collaboration tools.
Hundreds of executives at some of America's most well-known companies received e-mails that they probably didn't want to get -- even if those messages weren't a hoax.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft today described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification technology.
Software development competition finalists compete to move on to global finals in Paris, France.
Microsoft announced through two blogs that it plans to release the next service pack to SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 3 (SP3).
As of yesterday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages.
Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack."
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2008
Avnet Inc., the large Phoenix-based technology distributor, warned this week that earnings for its third quarter of 2008 would fall below management expectations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/16/2008
In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/15/2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported Monday that William Poole, one of the Windows executives who oversaw the development of Vista, has left the company.
Rumors that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will appear this month continue to flourish.
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 04/14/2008