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
CA intends to provide real-time visibility into its disparate distributed and mainframe application performance management platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/26/2009
Microsoft disclosed its fiscal first-quarter results, reporting an 18 percent decrease in net income compared with 1Q 2008.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 at a ceremony in New York City, and announced a deal with Amazon to put its Kindle e-book reader software on touch-enabled Windows 7 tablet PCs.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/22/2009
Finalists in the Code7 Contest, which started in July and ended in early October, will be announced on Monday.
Zend Technologies, creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, Wednesday kicked off its ZendCon conference by releasing the first public beta of its Zend Server 5.0 Web-app server.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/21/2009
Microsoft is responding to problems with a fix for Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/21/2009
Microsoft officials described additional details about the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010 product at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2009
SpringSource, now a subsidiary of VMware, unveiled the latest version of its Java development framework, along with a new developer edition of its Apache Tomcat-based application server.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft will hatch Windows 7 as a full-fledged commercial operating system this week, and IT professionals should be making plans for it.
Microsoft previewed the next generation of its popular SharePoint Server family, which will sport a new user interface, tighter integration capabilities, a cloud-based version and much-needed support for the company's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft said today it is discontinuing its beta of a service that lets developers building Silverlight-based applications host and distribute them free of charge and will be replaced by a paid alternative based on the company's forthcoming Azure cloud-based offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/19/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are available to MSDN subscribers today and general availability is expected on Wednesday, October 21.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/19/2009