Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
Redmond reveals that it's working on a stripped-down version of the Windows kernel that would dramatically reduce its footprint.
IBM announced growth in its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Partner segment, citing more than 4,100 members to date. That number represents a leap from the program's start in June of 2005, when there were just 50 partners.
The Windows Automatic Update might be a patch management and change control issue, observers say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/19/2007
The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the beta version of Popfly, its Web-dev tool for non-developers.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/18/2007
DataDirect has upgraded its Shadow mainframe data integration solution.
Microsoft's "Unified Communications" suite of products aims to blur the distinction between electronic and voice communications.
Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
Microsoft official: AJAX has reached maturity in enterprises.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/15/2007
First service pack ships for .NET Micro Framework.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 10/15/2007
New tool assists in Visual Basic-to-Java translation.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 10/15/2007
Digipede Network 2.0 includes new debugger, focuses on multi-threading.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 10/15/2007
SQL Server 2008 will get IntelliSense injection.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/15/2007
CodeGear releases 3rdRail, its new Ruby on Rails dev tool.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/15/2007
Redmond, Salesforce.com gear up for Platform as a Service duel.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/15/2007
Microsoft grants the first look at its .NET Framework reference source code and takes the first step toward opening its dev framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kathleen Richards with Michael Desmond
- 10/15/2007
Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.
HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2007