The Q3 release offers a native Silverlight report viewer and full ORM support for SQL Azure, among other enhancements.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will release the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/03/2009
Microsoft issued a "Fix it"-style patch on Tuesday for a Windows 7 upgrade problem that results in a system hang.
Companies will provide single IDE for developing enterprise-grade Flash and API apps deployed on Force.com.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/03/2009
Microsoft has been trying to clarify details on upgrading to Windows 7 for individual users, but it's been a bumpy ride at best.
Despite recent initiatives, the possibility of a machine-readable Web extolled by World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee still faces many obstacles, he admitted recently at a conference.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/02/2009
Microsoft's flagship IDE is taking an incremental step forward with the second beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2009
Microsoft is developing application compatibility tools for Office 2010 to help IT organizations migrate to the new productivity suite when it becomes available.
Microsoft this week described some new help tools for Windows 7 users, adding to its many product support resources.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/30/2009
Microsoft is working on upgrade snags that some users have described when moving from Vista to Windows 7.
Microsoft wants you to know that even as you read this article, "people around the world are hunting for vulnerabilities in software applications."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/29/2009
The White House's recent deployment of the Drupal open source content management system for its Web site has created a stir among industry observers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/29/2009
With the SharePoint 2010 beta only weeks away, Microsoft is ratcheting up developer training and other resources.
Microsoft will let developers who use Eclipse-based IDEs integrate their Java and PHP applications with the latest versions of Windows, Silverlight and the forthcoming Azure cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2009
New documentation helps developers access data objects and properties in .pst files.
Microsoft releases APIs that support Windows 7 updates for Vista apps.
In what could be an escalating war in the emerging arena of cloud-based computing services, Amazon today said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using the MySQL database The company today also said that it plans to slash the costs of its EC2 service by as much as 15 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2009
CollabNet will let development teams using its TeamForge application lifecycle management platform to manage and model a project's scope and timeline through a single user interface.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2009
The redesign makes the knowledge base of the greater development community easier to find alongside the familiar downloads and articles.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 10/27/2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/26/2009