More than 8,000 developers have downloaded the first test build since its release at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
With today's deadline looming, here's how this editor handled his Windows 7 migration.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2010
New functionality in Visual Studio Team System 2010 supports the Agile dev trend.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
The new Dotfuscator Software Services in Visual Studio 2010 moves beyond obfuscation with the community edition of PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Service for .NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/26/2010
Leading ALM firm targets Scrum-based project management with acquisition.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/26/2010
Products with lapsing service support include Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista RTM, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
The company publishes technical documentation for Outlook's .pst file format as an Open Specification.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/25/2010
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Microsoft signed a "patent cross-license" deal with Amazon.com regarding Amazon's Kindle e-reader device and "Linux-based servers."
More than 172 million smartphones were sold in 2009, an increase of nearly 24 percent from 2008, but the number of devices based on Windows Mobile declined 8 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2010
Microsoft further explained its mobile strategy in a Webcast today aimed at investors.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/22/2010
Microsoft released a new version of its Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
The popular tool's first commercial extension is a Visual Studio add-in for debugging third-party assemblies.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2010
Infrastructure upgrades after the economic slump will drive database deployment and development as competition heats up among Microsoft and other vendors, according to a new survey by Information Technology Intelligence Corp.
A new study describes the top 25 programming errors that can open up security holes in software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
Microsoft plans to talk about Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX 10 event for Web developers next month.
Microsoft patched a flaw related to IntelliSense and addressed other concerns as the dev community tests the final pre-release version of VS 2010.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/17/2010
Microsoft on Friday announced when it will release new service packs for two of its SQL Server products.
Microsoft changed its product naming scheme for its embedded operating system family, taking a cue from its Windows 7 desktop OS.
Maturing frameworks and rich Internet application platforms like Silverlight and Adobe Flash/AIR may change the way developers target client platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/16/2010