Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. The company has also posted the upgrade to its download site.
For Microsoft and Intel, the computing universe is going parallel.
Red Hat last week announced that it has acquired Amentra, a systems integrator specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects, as well as a provider of enterprise data solutions.
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
This month, ComponentOne has updated two of its offerings to 2008 versions: Studio Enterprise 2008 and Doc-To-Help 2008.
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- 03/17/2008
Boston, Mass.-based Atalasoft announced recently that it has updated its .NET imaging toolkit for photos and documents, DotImage, to version 6.0.
According to numerous reports on the Web, Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP SP3 may both be released this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.
IT pros looking at solutions to the Microsoft Excel bug that popped up as part of last week's patch release said Monday that the cell calculation snafu plaguing Excel 2003 isn't so much a security issue as it is a pain in the neck for programmers and Windows application developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/17/2008
Adobe releases first version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and open
sources the complementary Flex framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
Sybase releases new version of Afaria, an encryption component for
Windows Mobile devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
First Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0 betas are released at MIX08.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
OpenID gets big-name support from Microsoft, Google, IBM and others.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
CodeGear partners with Russia to provide programming education.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
Online application space heats up as Microsoft, Google release new components of their cloud-based productivity suites .
Microsoft opens APIs, protocol documentation in an effort to reach out
to the developer community.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
After MySQL acquisition, Sun plans to pursue other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Microsoft's 'Heroes Happen Here' launch events encourage IT pros to
test the company's new 2008 offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Appistry, a pioneering provider of grid-inspired application servers known as "fabrics," is reaching out to developers with a free version of its flagship product, a new open licensing model and a newly launched developer portal.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/14/2008
A Windows Home Server bug that's corrupting some users' data won't be fixed until June, Microsoft announced this week.