According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
IT execs are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report by research analysts at IDC.
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Microsoft had flat revenue results as reflected in its third-quarter 2008 report.
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2008
Windows XP, which will no longer be sold after June 30, will not get a reprieve despite Ballmer's quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback.
New attack vectors and methods for hacker intrusion, it seems, are popping up every few months.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/23/2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solution provider IONA recently announced that its Artix product line will offer interoperability for Microsoft technologies in SOA projects.
Howard A. Schmidt has used technology to thwart crime since his early career
as a policeman and pioneer in computer forensics.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/22/2008
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/22/2008
Open source software company Appcelerator recently updated its rich Internet application development platform so that it's compatible with Google's new App Engine platform.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
As of yesterday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages.
Krugle Enterprise Appliance enables code-specific search in more than 40 languages.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/15/2008
Novell releases MonoDevelop 1.0, a tool that allows developers to port Visual Studio .NET apps to Linux and Mac environments.
In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/15/2008