Redmond hopes to challenge SAS Institute and SPSS for data mining and predictive analytic bragging rights.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/07/2008
Borland Software Corp. today said it has agreed to sell its CodeGear unit for $23 million to Embarcadero Technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/07/2008
Last month researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.
- By William Jackson
- 05/06/2008
Microsoft said that users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center.
Just two days after walking away from its $49.6 billion bid for Yahoo, the Times Online U.K. is reporting that Microsoft is meeting with Time Warner executives regarding a possible bid for America Online -- the very company Yahoo turned to in a possible attempt to stave off the takeover bid from Redmond.
Anyone interested in working for Microsoft on the next and future editions of SQL Server might want to check out this blog post from Lead Program Manager Debra Dove.
Citing a hefty price tag and other concerns, Microsoft this weekend officially scrapped its plans to acquire Yahoo.
Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotiating to seal a deal.
Google and Panorama Software partner up to develop SaaS tool for Google Docs.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2008
Borland Silk 2008 test suite boosts RIA testing and adds extensibility framework.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2008
Redmond unveils new CTP of its Robotics Developer Studio 2008.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2008
According to a recent survey of 850 "enterprise software customers," Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to be the most important enterprise software trend.
Configuration Service 2.0 may offer a glimpse of what’s to come in Microsoft’s next-generation SOA platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
IBM launches new mashup tools WebSphere sMash and Mashup Center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Microsoft task force seeks to improve MSDN by soliciting developer feedback and boosting search features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Altova releases upgraded XML tools suite with OOXML support.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2008
Research firm Gartner is predicting that the current economic downturn in the U.S. will mean more IT and development positions will go overseas.
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2008