Court documents may contain a "smoking gun" reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's participation in a crucial decision to downgrade capabilities needed to gain Windows Vista Capable certification in new PCs.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/17/2008
Engine Yard releases Merb, a new open source Web framework for building Ruby applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
IBM launches a cloud-computing initiative in an effort to evolve its software-delivery model into a mix of on-premises and online apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
First Visual Studio 2010 CTP offers IDE upgrades and advancements in tooling designed for .NET Framework 4.0.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2008
Microsoft releases "Geneva" and Live Identity Services as the first pieces of its identity-management roadmap.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2008
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Microsoft plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users.
Microsoft executive David Treadwell today provided a few more details about the company's Azure Services Platform in a Webinar aimed at the investment community.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Agile project management tools provider VersionOne has updated its V1: Agile Enterprise product to include a Java software development kit (Java SDK).
- By John K. Waters
- 11/10/2008
More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/10/2008
Microsoft on Monday announced Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) solutions for IT and development pros.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/10/2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
OutSystems's All-In-One Agile Suite promises to save time both for developers trying to incorporate changes into customer applications, and customers who want to get the process right but do it quicker while still having a say over the development.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/07/2008
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008