Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
The Distributed Management Task Force, an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management, has released Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware 2.0.
Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
Component vendor Infragistics has released a reference application and guidance for Windows Presentation Foundation, the UI development subsystem in .NET Framework 3.0.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/19/2007
CodeGear announced yesterday the general availability of its first development tool for Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). The company's new 3rdRail integrated development environment (IDE) comes with several features specifically designed to make it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/18/2007
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/17/2007
Parlano brings group chat platform to Redmond's UC stack.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
PerformancePoint Server launch to bolster Redmond’s BI push.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2007
Infragistics releases TestAdvantage 2007 Volume 2.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
Microsoft unveils pair of Live ID SDKs.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
Analyst cautions enterprise architects against Google Apps.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
IDC study finds practical concerns driving XML-based doc formats.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
BlackBerry plug-in can leverage Visual Studio.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Research firm eyeballs what’s hot in dynamic languages.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2007
Anticipated second beta of ADO.NET Entity Framework released.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- 09/14/2007
CollabNet has released the latest version of its open source application lifecycle management (ALM) solution, which features improvements in collaboration, tools integration and reporting capabilities.