The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
Intel updates Threading Building Blocks library, a developer resource for writing parallelized C++ code for multi-core CPUs.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/15/2008
Redmond strengthens open source ties by joining the Apache Software Foundation and contributing a PHP-to-SQL patch.
Windows Vista is still struggling to find a place in dev shops and the enterprise, and its biggest enemy may be Windows XP.
More than just bug fixes, SP1 promises to improve developer productivity.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2008
Grad student with a Java dev focus wins the New York City .NET User Group’s Speaker Idol competition, and learns to love .NET in the process.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/15/2008
Intel Corp. on Tuesday shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification.
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
New integrated development environments have become rapidly shadowed of late by monoliths such as Eclipse and Visual Studio. However, that has not deterred Boulder, Colo.-based startup N-BRAIN Inc.
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft closed its investigation into an update blocking issue that affected users of Windows Server Update Service 3.0 or WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1.
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up short by one.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/12/2008
With the U.S. economy still circling and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/11/2008
Microsoft lost browser market share over the last year, according to a report issued by management consulting firm Janco Associates Inc.
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
VMware joined the Linux Foundation on Monday.
One fun thing about the interactive world of Web 2.0 is the online applications you can take advantage of, such as Google Gadgets.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
IT Pros and system administrators will be mighty busy this month as Microsoft announced plans to release 12 patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2008
We dodged a bullet last month -- the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, Dan Kaminsky told a standing-room only (and some sitting on the floor) crowd at the Black Hat Briefings Wednesday.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008