Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Microsoft, as part of its overall initiative to support modeling capabilities, especially in its .NET Framework, today joined the Object Management Group (OMG), a nonprofit organization that fosters integration standards for the enterprise.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
As hackers continue to focus their attention on virtualized environments, those looking to adopt virtualization technologies should proceed with caution, according to report from InfoWorld.
- By GCN.com Staff
- 09/09/2008
Microsoft launched the first TV commercial in its new $300 million ad campaign that's designed to spur consumer interest in Microsoft operating system products.
Microsoft described its next service-oriented architecture solution, which is "on track for availability during the first half of 2009."
Paul Cosgrave, commissioner of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), talks about the city's approach to software development in this extended Q&A.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
New York City is stepping up its .NET development efforts, but at the same time it is moving aggressively to expand use of open source technology, according to the city's top IT official.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.
Microsoft plans to roll out just four "critical" fixes in September's security bulletin release expected on Tuesday, according to an advance notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly made what could be its largest assault on Redmond to date -- the release of its own Web browser.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
One report suggests that IE could account for less than half of all browsers in use by enterprises within the next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
Xenocode releases Postbuild 2008 for .NET, a code-obfuscation and deployment tool that protects intellectual property.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
IBM joins forces with Red Hat, Novell and Canonical to push Linux distributions onto the desktop.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Sybase announces plans to unveil an upgrade to its PowerBuilder toolset at its TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Alfresco Software’s open source enterprise content management system presents a new challenge to SharePoint.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft releases new database server, adding support for policy management, encryption and new data types.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2008
Unify and Casahl Technology work together to ease integration between Lotus Notes and SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
CollabNet offers a new version of SourceForge Enterprise, an ALM system that provides a single interface for Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008