Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2008
When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.
Redmond is poised to release eight security bulletins for its April patch release, with five designated as "critical" and three deemed "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/03/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.
OOXML software development kits expected in April and July, with
key LINQ-to-XML support anticipated in the later release.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2008
As planned, Redmond is ending Visual Basic 6.0 support this month, prompting enterprises to migrate to .NET.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
Microsoft faces challenges as it looks to advance CardSpace for cross-platform identity management.
- By Richard Adhikari
- 04/01/2008
Adobe and Microsoft strike a deal allowing Flash and PDF software
to run on smartphones with Windows Mobile OSes.
The Eclipse Project and Microsoft partner up for interoperability, adding
to Redmond’s growing number of open source collaborators.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was approved as an international standard.
The Kerberos Consortium on Monday added Microsoft to the ranks of its industry supporters.
On April 8, Microsoft will cease its support of the VB6 IDE.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/31/2008
Security experts warn of rise in "poisoning" of thousands of Web pages via iFrame exploit.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/31/2008
The International Organization for Standardization plans to announce vote results on the decision to ratify or reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
Microsoft yesterday published a trial version of its latest desktop search engine called Windows Search 4.0 Preview.
Want Windows XP SP3 for real? You can't have it now, but there is a beta Refresh to play with in the mean time.
PCs made by Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, China's Lenovo and others couldn't be upgraded to Vista Service Pack 1 if they were using certain Intel chipsets.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/26/2008
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Google and MySpace to back OpenSocial, a group that aims to define a common API to allow social applications across multiple sites.
Windows XP service pack 3 will have its release-to-manufacturing debut in April of this year, according to the Tech ARP Web site.
Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.