Having sealed the deal on the largest acquisition in its history, IBM has moved to show that it has already taken the reigns of Cognos, the number two supplier of business intelligence and performance management software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/07/2008
Security firm provides video of a proof-of-concept flaw in Microsoft's IGMP networking protocol.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/06/2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, currently named "D."
The latest version of Spring.NET, made generally available in December, is a major upgrade to the original port of the popular Spring Framework, a layered Java/J2EE application-programming model.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/05/2008
Microsoft today announced that two of its most important products of the last half-decade are complete and ready to be shipped.
Upheaval in Redmond’s ranks sees Raikes, Fitzgerald depart, former Macromedia CEO Elop arrive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
A survey released by Compuware Corporation and the Ponemon Institute shows "an overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed risk compromising critical information by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications."
- By James E. Powell
- 02/01/2008
IBM releases second beta of software dev collaboration tool.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
New Dynamics suite targets retail industry.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft prepares OOXML for second ISO vote.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft releases .NET 3.5 Framework library source code.
Purchase of leading open source database maker could herald Sun's entry into new markets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Yahoo's senior director of methods and practices, answered a few questions about the Agile development process and Scrum, and how these methods have improved software development at Yahoo.
A new tool released late last week lets you take as much of the "feature bloat" as you want out of Windows Vista -- and then some.
Don't want Office 2003 SP3 rolled out across your desktops next month? Then make sure you don't have Microsoft Update set to automatic.
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/29/2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
On Friday, Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Team announced through its blog that Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects is now available for download.
In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.