Anticipated second beta of ADO.NET Entity Framework released.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- 09/14/2007
Microsoft's update system is changing files on both Windows XP and Windows Vista -- even if a user disables automatic updates. Microsoft, however, calls it built-in behavior and no cause for alarm.
CollabNet has released the latest version of its open source application lifecycle management (ALM) solution, which features improvements in collaboration, tools integration and reporting capabilities.
In its first major refresh in nearly two years, MySQL is set to release a new version of its flagship open source database accompanied by a bevy of new tools and beefed-up subscription-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/12/2007
Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.
Microsoft will unveil three security enhancements as part of its upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release, slated for early 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/10/2007
By 2012, smart phones that use a scaled-down variant of the open source Linux operating system will account for roughly 31 percent of all smart devices in the marketplace, according to ABI Research. Linux smartphone technology will see its fastest growth, with annual growth rates as high as 75 percent, in the 2007 to 2012 period.
Yesterday, Microsoft released the next component in its growing virtualization product line, announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). General availability is expected in October.
Microsoft has dropped one fix from its September "Patch Tuesday" update, pulling Security Bulletin 5 that affected Windows and SharePoint Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/07/2007
IT workers continue to ride a strong wave of increasing experience to a third straight year of high earnings, according to <i>Redmond</i> magazine's 12th annual Salary Survey.
Microsoft's patch rollout looks to be on the light side in September, with just five patches -- one of which is labeled "Critical" and four rated "Important" -- as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/06/2007
CodeGear is releasing a rapid application development (RAD) environment for database-driven Web-based applications that supports multiple versions of Microsoft Windows as well as the .NET Framework. The company's new RAD Studio 2007integrated development environment (IDE) supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista operating systems.
Microsoft has turned on the Silverlight.
Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.
The next beta versions of the products that make up the Windows Live suite were made available today.
Microsoft's first attempt to gain acceptance for its Open XML (OOXML) document format from a critical standards body has failed.
Microsoft renews public commitment to Commerce Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2007
New Zealand firm debuts object-relational mapping toolset.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/01/2007