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.
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
The WebsiteSpark program offers a way for Web professionals and smaller companies to consider Microsoft technologies in addition to open source platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/24/2009
Lawyers for Microsoft and Toronto-based i4i LP concluded oral arguments before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Intel this week launched a new program it hopes will spark the growth of a multiple developer communities around devices based on its low-power Atom processors which have become popular components of rapidly growing netbook PCs.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/23/2009
Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on Tuesday.
FluidHtml is a new markup language that lets Web developers generate Flash on Web sites without running the browser plug-in.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/22/2009