Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a free Web-based productivity and collaboration tools bundle.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are organized as massively scalable, super-reliable, highly available Web services.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2008
Learn how to work around a couple bugs in Excel to return double values; drill down on lists with anonymous types; and learn the
difference between Build and Rebuild.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft updated documentation on protocols used in some of its core applications today.
Microsoft has released Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0, a file translator that allows users to open, edit, and convert Open XML files created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows for use in earlier versions of the suite, including Office 2004 11.4 and Office v. X 10.1.9 or later.
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 and Hyper-V are the foundations for the
newly revamped MSDN.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/15/2008
Next Office 2007 Service Pack will include native read/write support for XML-based OpenDocument Format files.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/15/2008
IBM’s Rational Software unit set to release Team Concert version
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and John K. Waters
- 06/15/2008
Google's first major developer conference focuses on improvements to 'Gears,' its cloud-based browser extension.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/15/2008
How to live a C++ life in an XML world.
- By Stephane Raynaud
- 06/15/2008
A speech given yesterday by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition, skewered Microsoft without mentioning the company by name.
Codejock Technologies offers improved toolkits to Visual C++ and ActiveX developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2008
Access data in the cloud with REST.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/01/2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
A consultancy to the U.K. government has forwarded complaints about Microsoft's licensing and interoperability practices to the European Commission (EC), according to an announcement issued by the Becta consulting group yesterday.