New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
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
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
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
IdentityMine has released a community technology preview, or CTP, of a toolset for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers called "Blendables."
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
Microsoft, perhaps stung by its failure to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick in recent months, announced that it has bought European company ScreenTonic SA, a mobile advertising company.
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
If your hand is up, consider yourself open to attack.
Here's one small change among 800 in the Windows OS that you might want back.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/07/2007
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/07/2007
OK, now that we have your attention, really it's Blogger.com that got scammed.
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2007
WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/21/2007
Microsoft has revealed one way it hopes to foster rapid adoption of Silverlight, its new technology for building rich Internet applications.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/21/2007
After missing out on DoubleClick and other high-profile companies, Microsoft finally got its foot in the Internet advertising door by buying aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion in cash.