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Panelists Praise Vista Performance, Despite the 'Pain'

Microsoft Springboard Virtual Roundtable examined Vista performance, fielding technical views from panelists that had actually carried out system upgrades.

Pentagon: Open Source Good To Go

Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.

AccuRev Streams Flow to the Enterprise

AccuRev, a software change and configuration management (SCCM) tool, has just been enhanced for to support larger, more distributed development teams.

Alliance To Study Video Games for Math and Science Education

Video games have always had detractors, but a growing movement in academia and industry recognizes them as educational tools.

Microsoft Outlines Next-Generation Databases

Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.

Mono 2.0 Takes Flight

Mono version 2.0, an open source effort to implement the Microsoft .NET development framework for Unix, Linux and other platforms, was formally released today.

Microsoft Hiring Freeze 'Not True'

Rumors that Microsoft initiated a hiring freeze are not true, according to Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos, who denied it in accounts published on Friday.

Red Hat Expands HPC Solution Availability

Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.

Coming to Terms With Cloud Computing

Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?

XMPP Developers Get .NET Client Library

Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.

New York Embraces .NET

VSLive! New York keynote speaker highlights New York City’s .NET and open source development efforts.

Coming Soon: BizTalk 2009 CTP

Microsoft prepares to release BizTalk Server 2009 and will release BizTalk Server 7, its next-generation SOA solution, next year.

Are You Ready for Visual Studio 2010?

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference will bring previews of 'Oslo,' 'Rosario' and .NET Framework 4.0

Amazon To Host Microsoft Solutions in the Cloud

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Microsoft's 'Dublin' App Server Tied to .NET 4.0

New Windows Server and .NET Framework 4.0 technologies aimed at developers who are building composite applications will be released at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. The server technologies are the first to support Microsoft's upcoming "Oslo" modeling platform, according to Microsoft.

Intersoft Updates WebUI Studio.NET Components

Component maker Intersoft Solutions releases WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2, an ASP.NET- and Silverlight-based Web development suite

Microsoft Offers SDL Tools to the Masses

Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle initiative introduces a set of dev requirements aimed at reducing security defects in software.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Goes Mainstream

Redmond releases Windows HPC Server 2008, the data center-class operating system for high-performance computing applications.

What's Next for Microsoft and PHP?

Zend Technologies and Microsoft collaboration discussed at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo.

Visual Studio To Include jQuery Library

In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.

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