Microsoft and Capgemini announced a partnership deal on Friday that aims to better integrate Microsoft's software with SAP's enterprise resource planning solutions.
Faced with a limited developer community four months after releasing its first webOS-based device, Palm Inc, this week said will offer a two-tier distribution option.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/09/2009
IT pros can expect a mammoth patch release for the month of October on Tuesday if Microsoft's advance notification is any indication.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/08/2009
In a move that will extend the reach beyond its core focus of enterprise testing and performance management, Compuware Corp. said it will acquire Gomez Inc. for $295 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2009
New suite of .NET controls offers Excel-like pivot tables and rich presentation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/08/2009
The European Commission on Wednesday took another step closer to resolving its Web browser competition complaint against Microsoft.
The global IT market will see an upturn, starting next quarter, according to a report released last week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/07/2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
Microsoft hopes to convince development shops to move from its Visual SourceSafe version control management system to the more modern Visual Studio Team Foundation Server by offering a scaled-down version of TFS.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/06/2009
A Microsoft-sponsored IDC study predicted relatively healthy employment prospects for skilled IT labor over the next four years.
Adobe Systems' popular Flash platform will soon run on every major mobile device including Apple's iPhone.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/05/2009
Cloudera, a commercial distributor of the Hadoop data storage and processing platform, released a unified graphical user interface for applications based on the open-source framework for building and running scalable Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/05/2009
Microsoft touted new capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, particularly customization features enabled by Service Pack 1.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2009
Microsoft's security team didn't flinch this week, even as a proof-of-concept exploit for Windows Server Message Block Version 2 (SMBv2) was published on Sunday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/02/2009
One-third of expenditures on development projects are squandered by three-quarters of organizations, because they lack consistent requirements and discovery management processes, according to a recently released study.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2009
The mystery of where Sam Ramji is headed is over. The former senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft has led Redmond's open source efforts since 2006. Now Ramji is reuniting with his erstwhile BEA Systems colleagues to head product strategy and business development at Sonoa Systems.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2009
This summer Microsoft quietly released the first key components of its .NET Reactive (Rx) Framework, which allows developers to write Language Integrated Query (LINQ) expressions against events.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2009
Noelios Technologies released a bridge designed to let Java developers to utilize Microsoft's ADO.NET Data Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/29/2009
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.