Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
Oracle is adding to its arsenal of data integration tools by agreeing to acquire GoldenGate Software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/23/2009
Microsoft popped the champagne corks in Redmond today by announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both reached the "release to manufacturing" stage.
Coalition of more than 50 companies, academic institutions and related groups formed around creating greater acceptance of open-source software in government information technology systems.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 07/22/2009
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Microsoft takes once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of source code of Hyper-V drivers under GPLv2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/21/2009
Second public beta planned for this fall following feedback from first test release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/21/2009
A group of leading standards development organizations are working jointly to foster common standards for cloud computing and storage.
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
Telerik’s Premium Collection for .NET, released last week, updates all seven of its product lines including the data access tool and Web UI testing framework that mark the company’s new strategy to diversify beyond UI components for the Microsoft platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/16/2009
Upgrade offers added integration and new Eclipse-based tool for advanced developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/15/2009
Microsoft announced pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing services on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
There are no surprises with Redmond's six-patch release on Tuesday, but there is plenty of work to be done, security pros contend.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/14/2009
Expression Blend 3 suite promises to allow closer collaboration among developers and designers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/14/2009
Microsoft Office 2010 has reached the technical preview testing stage, company officials announced on Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has halted work on the second version of the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and has instead redirected its energies to the next version, HTML 5.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/13/2009
Redmond is taking steps to increase Microsoft Surface developer participation.
Microsoft took the wraps off version 3 of its Silverlight framework for developing rich interactive applications (RIAs)and its Expression Studio Web and graphics design suite.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/10/2009
On Tuesday, Microsoft is planning to roll out six fixes -- three "critical" and three "important" -- in its July security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/09/2009