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.
Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2008
Online security company MessageLabs found that more than three-quarters of the e-mail messages it scanned in May were spam, an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous month, said Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief security analyst.
- By William Jackson
- 06/04/2008
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.
A security research firm has found multiple flaws in Web server software from Sun Microsystems that would collectively allow attackers to log on, gain root access, peruse and delete files, and execute malicious commands.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/04/2008
A Microsoft executive said today that Microsoft may be considering rebranding its Live search engine brand.
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
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
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 continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft refreshes its Expression Studio Suite with upgrades to all five Expression tools.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
JavaOne conference showcases growing number of tools connecting Java and .NET applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 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
Codejock Technologies offers improved toolkits to Visual C++ and ActiveX developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2008
Oracle completes BEA Systems acquisition, putting pressure on Microsoft’s .NET middleware and SOA strategies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/01/2008
Embarcadero Technologies will purchase CodeGear from Borland, and plans to continue support for CodeGear products.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2008