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Gates on Vista: 100 Million Served

Sales of the Vista operating system have hit the 100 million-mark, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Sunday night at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in what is expected to be his last keynote address.

Tech Giants Woo Developers Seeking JavaScript Turf

The software tools war is getting more interesting as Microsoft-Google square off with Volta vs. GWT and Adobe seeks to preserve its dominance in dynamic app development technology.

First Look: Popfly

Popfly for Silverlight: a beta glimpse.

Redmond Makes Progress on Entity Framework

Entity Framework beta 3 offers new features, bug fixes and major performance enhancements, but no Oracle support.

Compuware Revs Business Requirements Tool

Compuware upgrades OptimalTrace 5.0 for BRM.

IBM and Mainsoft Ink Deal to Integrate .NET Apps

IBMWebSphere Portal to be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.

MS Research Spinoff Pegs Mobile Software Tool

MS Research spin-off Zumobi unleashes first beta of mobile software.

Blend SP1 Fails to Launch

Blend SP1 runs into some rough patches.

Software Giants Differ on VM Support

Microsoft and others embrace virtualization, but support varies.

Developers Weigh in on PDC Delay

Microsoft PDC is back on the schedule.

Extending.NET to Multi-Tier Apps

Early build of 'Volta' toolset expected to ease multi-tier app development.

PowerBuilder Revved with .NET Hooks

Sybase PowerBuilder 11.1 adds .NET enhancements.

Windows Home Server Causing File Corruption

Microsoft is facing its first crisis with Windows Home Server, which is causing file corruption when used with certain programs -- most of them from Microsoft itself.

Microsoft Launches New Security Blog

Patch Tuesday releases promise be a lot more interesting in 2008.

Browser Wars Resume as Microsoft, Firefox Prep Updates

Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08.

Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid2 Test

Internet Explorer has been a source of chagrin to many Web developers over the years due to less-than-perfect W3C standards support. This problem was pervasive with Internet Explorer 6, considering how badly the aging 2001-era browser renders modern CSS-driven layouts.

Microsoft Primed for a 'Hyper' 2008

Like a kid who's overdosed on Christmas cookies, Microsoft looks like it's going to have a hyper 2008.

Szulik Relinquishes Red Hat CEO Slot

Matthew Szulik stunned analysts by announcing that he's stepping back from Red Hat CEO slot. Jim Whitehurst will step in as president and CEO while Szulik will remain chairman.

Build Web Apps With Java

The inaugural Google Web Toolkit (GWT) conference in San Francisco featured a conversation with Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect. He was interviewed by Greg Doench, an executive editor with Pearson Technology Group, which includes book publishers such as Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams and Peachpit Press.

Creative Commons Introduces CC+ License

The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to release their work for free (under the Creative Commons noncommercial license) and charge a fee for commercial use at the same time.

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