Due to objections from four countries, the International Organization for Standardization has temporarily put a hold on publishing Microsoft Office Open XML as an ISO standard.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/10/2008
Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/10/2008
Technology reporter Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft FAQ that appears to indicate Microsoft's official name for the next version of Office.
Microsoft rolled out Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2008, which is available for evaluation by developers and database administrators who want an early look at the relational database management system.
In a bid to modernize the embedded version of its Windows software, Microsoft this week has released the community technology preview (CTP) of a newly revamped version set to ship by year's end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/05/2008
Don shares his take on Gates' keynote goodbye to developers.
Client-side debugging is better, but IntelliSense still has a few issues to be worked out.
Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.
Microsoft announced Tuesday at its Tech-Ed conference that it will add a new tool to Visual Studio that will visually model applications.
Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/03/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
IBM's Rational Software division today unveiled 20 new commercial products based on its Jazz collaboration platform and opened up the Jazz community to all interested parties.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
While last month's JavaOne conference focused on the next generation of the Java platform, there's a growing ecosystem of tools to connect existing Java-based apps to those based on Microsoft's .NET environment.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft refreshes its Expression Studio Suite with upgrades to all five Expression tools.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
You probably write a lot of code to test object state. A better approach might be to make your objects report their own state.
SlickEdit's Tools Editing Toolbox v2.0 offers "power programmers" enhanced Visual Studio tools.
The many ways virtualization technology can help you and your team get more done.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
A take on one reason why VB is getting overlooked.
- By Patrick Meader
- 06/01/2008
MySQL gives Microsoft a nod from the open source community at the MySQL Conference and Expo.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008