When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
Microsoft executives on Thursday explained the company's business and prospects at the 2009 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond, Wash.
The maker of the popular Blackberry smart phone this week unveiled new tooling for developers building Web and rich Internet applications for its devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/30/2009
Microsoft and Yahoo finally consummated an Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.
After upping its offer by 50 percent, Micro Focus closes Borland deal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/29/2009
Zend Technologies, the creator and commercial maintainer of PHP, today released upgraded versions of its development environment, Zend Studio, and the open-source Zend Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/29/2009
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Looking to expand the reach of its popular QuickBooks software, Inuit this week has launched an open source effort.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/28/2009
The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/27/2009
Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
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