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
Microsoft on Wednesday announced personnel changes to its Windows Division leadership, beginning with a promotion of Steven Sinofsky to president of that division.
Google is developing an operating system designed primarily for lightweight Web-based tasks, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/08/2009
Microsoft continues to investigate a new vulnerability revealed at the top of the week regarding an ActiveX control component in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2009
To address licensing questions surrounding the Mono Project, Microsoft has agreed to apply its Community Promise to both C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/07/2009
Among the numerous elements of its Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle is embarking upon a new ALM strategy.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/06/2009
Microsoft gave notice on Thursday that it removed 10 security patch downloads, all associated with Microsoft Java Virtual Machine technology
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/03/2009
IT purchasing has been so bad recently that things have got to be looking up.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/02/2009
Why can't a Web browser be more like an operating system? That's a question being investigated with "Gazelle," an ongoing project at Microsoft Research.
Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, report concludes.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/02/2009
In what could be one of its most significant releases this year, Oracle released its new Oracle Fusion Middleware suite and JDeveloper update.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2009
So far, the reviews of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are encouraging.
- By Kathleen Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2009
The general economic downturn is leaving its mark on IT salaries, according to an independent study released on Monday.
Oracle says questioning shouldn’t be a deal breaker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/29/2009
Representing a key milestone for Eclipse, the release is the largest yet, comprising 33 projects and more than 24 million lines of code.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/24/2009
The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
Software developers still use software configuration management more than fully featured suites, according to a report published by Forrester.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2009