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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/07/2008
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.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/03/2008
Popfly for Silverlight: a beta glimpse.
Entity Framework beta 3 offers new features, bug fixes and major performance enhancements, but no Oracle support.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2008
Compuware upgrades OptimalTrace 5.0 for BRM.
- By Richard Adhikari
- 01/01/2008
IBMWebSphere Portal to be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.
MS Research spin-off Zumobi unleashes first beta of mobile software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/01/2008
Blend SP1 runs into some rough patches.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2008
Microsoft and others embrace virtualization, but support varies.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Microsoft PDC is back on the schedule.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Early build of 'Volta' toolset expected to ease multi-tier app development.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Sybase PowerBuilder 11.1 adds .NET enhancements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2008
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.
Patch Tuesday releases promise be a lot more interesting in 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/28/2007
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/27/2007
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.
Like a kid who's overdosed on Christmas cookies, Microsoft looks like it's going to have a hyper 2008.
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.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/21/2007
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.
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