A memo purportedly from Microsoft to its OEM partners suggests that Microsoft will offer upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows 7, starting possibly on July 1, 2009.
Bob Muglia, a Microsoft veteran of 21 years, has been named to the newly created position of president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/06/2009
Bob Muglia was named president of Microsoft's $13 billion Server and Tools Business, Microsoft announced today.
- By Kathleen Richards and Ed Scannell
- 01/06/2009
Bloggers and analysts on Monday poured cold water on rumors that Microsoft plans to lay off a substantial number of its employees.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/05/2009
The developers behind Linux have released the latest version of the open source operating system kernel.
- By Joab Jackson
- 01/05/2009
The upcoming Windows 7 beta -- scheduled to be released this month -- found its way onto the Internet over the holidays.
Sun Microsystems recently released the latest version of its desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/04/2009
Developers are angered by Microsoft's shift to Entity Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/01/2009
Embarcadero Technologies releases CodeGear RAD Studio 2009, a rapid application development tool for Windows, .NET and Web.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2009
Alfresco Software and Joomla partner up to develop an integration module based on Content Management Interoperability Services.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2009
CA's Plex rapid application development environment creates .NETbased services based on Windows Communication Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2009
Microsoft releases the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009, its integration platform based on service-oriented architecture.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/01/2009
Despite progress by Microsoft, the economy could put projects lacking quick ROI at risk.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/23/2008
Redmond continues to investigate a new zero-day bug affecting popular database application SQL Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/23/2008
MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month.
The public release of Windows 7 Beta 1 is expected next month, but speculation that it might appear earlier popped up on Friday from a few sources.
Appcelerator Inc. earlier this month released a public preview of Titanium SDK, an open source alternative to Adobe AIR.
CA's latest release of its Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/17/2008
As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/17/2008
Microsoft released documentation on Tuesday designed to help developers create applications compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, particularly if they need to understand how Office 2007 implements the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.