Windows 7 will feature superior application compatibility over Windows Vista, according to a Microsoft announcement issued on Monday.
In a bid to entice application providers to build and distribute their wares on the recently announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft today revealed plans to offer tooling and guidance on its developer portal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/11/2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/11/2009
Following months of criticism that its cloud-based SQL Data Services lacked the horsepower for enterprise-grade applications, Microsoft today said it is scrapping the effort and moving to a pure relational model instead.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/10/2009
Microsoft is rolling out three security fixes today in its March patch release, with one item described as "critical" and two items labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/10/2009
Two leading suppliers of complex event processing (CEP) platforms, Aleri and Coral8, have combined, the two companies announced today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/09/2009
Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, talks about the status of IE 8 RC1.
- By Doug Barney and Kurt Mackie
- 03/09/2009
Microsoft will expand the list of "features" that can be disabled when the Windows 7 Release Candidate becomes available, including the ability to turn off IE 8.
As Microsoft prepares to reveal its plans for a more robust offering of its emerging SQL Data Services, an obscure two-person company last week launched its own cloud-based relational database service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2009
Microsoft plans to issue three fixes in its March security patch rollout, with one deemed "critical" and two labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/05/2009
Microsoft this week unexpectedly issued a second release candidate of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, the company's a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2009
As Microsoft's main front man on security, Roger Halbheer has a tall order to fill.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/05/2009
Microsoft on Wednesday explained how the needs of enterprise users were considered in the early design stages of its new Windows 7 operating system.
Financial analysts attending the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Tuesday questioned Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, on Microsoft's various business plans.
Microsoft responded to queries about its January jobs cuts sent by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
Component vendor Infragistics Inc. is releasing Silverlight 2 controls to enable developers to visualize key performance indicators for dashboards, reporting and other data-driven Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/03/2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is updating its recommendations for meeting the unusual security challenges presented by the domain name system.
- By William Jackson
- 03/03/2009
Look for a third-party market of component tools that allow developers to build business applications based on Adobe's Flex rich client programming platform to emerge this year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/02/2009
Microsoft released a Windows 7 Beta client update that fixes problems that a small number of users were experiencing with Internet Explorer 8 on the new OS.
Third-party developers and Microsoft project leaders this week showcased applications developed with Redmond's four rich client technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows 7 Touch and Surface.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/27/2009