Redmond releases a CTP of Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
The Ruby on Rails project joins with Merb framework to develop Rails 3.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
The rise of netbooks challenges Microsoft and other companies whose high-end operating systems may not run on the portable machines.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009
Build 7000 of Microsoft's latest OS proves surprisingly stable and robust in our hands-on tests.
- By Stephen Chapman
- 02/01/2009
Ahead of Internet Explorer 8’s debut, Microsoft urges developers to test their Web sites for compatibility with a pre-release tool.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2009
Microsoft releases second CTPs for Windows Azure.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009
Application lifecycle management provider Borland responds to setbacks.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2009
Developers respond to Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg's discussion on the future direction of C#.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2009
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
Though Microsoft may have gotten ahead of the browser-security curve with RC1 of IE 8, which includes a feature that helps protect against clickjacking attacks, recent developments suggest that other browsers haven't quite caught up yet.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/30/2009
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
Microsoft has advanced to the next testing phase by issuing Release Candidate "Escrow"-build versions of Service Pack 2.
Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7 Beta, the company's newest operating system, has resulted in a stepped-up workload for the Department of Justice effort overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a past federal court antitrust ruling.
One bright spot in the IT economy appears to be virtualization, with leading provider VMware today announcing that its yearly revenue rose 42 percent in 2008 to $1.9 billion. Fourth quarter revenues were a "solid" $515 million -- up 25 percent over last year.
Amid the current economic uncertainty, some businesses will probably opt to kill existing outsourcing arrangements to cut costs, but some in the industry expect the economic downturn to result in a net gain for outsourcers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/27/2009
Growth of the Apple iPhone and Google's Android mobile platforms are cutting into the market for devices based on Windows Mobile and will continue to do so, according to a global survey of developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2009
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2009
Many observers with a vested interest in regulatory requirements say tighter compliance is inevitable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/27/2009
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/27/2009
Microsoft will discontinue its PerformancePoint business intelligence product and will merge its function into SharePoint Server, the company said late last week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/26/2009