As Microsoft readies pre-release bits for its Professional Developers Conference later this month, the company's Connected Services division today announced key components of its "Oslo" modeling platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/10/2008
The National Security Agency has released a case study showing how to cost-effectively develop code with zero defects. If adopted widely, the practices advocated in the case study could help make commercial software programs more reliable and less vulnerable to attack.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/10/2008
Microsoft's October patch release cycle promises to be a busy one as Redmond announced plans to roll out 11 security bulletins in its Tuesday security release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2008
Microsoft's tools for building rich Internet applications (RIAs)-ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2-promise to help take the "developer ugly" out of line-of-business software.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/09/2008
Indonesian component maker Intersoft Solutions Corp. last month released a new version of its controls and components suite for ASP.NET -- and Silverlight-based Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/09/2008
Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/08/2008
Microsoft Springboard Virtual Roundtable examined Vista performance, fielding technical views from panelists that had actually carried out system upgrades.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/08/2008
AccuRev, a software change and configuration management (SCCM) tool, has just been enhanced for to support larger, more distributed development teams.
Video games have always had detractors, but a growing movement in academia and industry recognizes them as educational tools.
Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2008
Mono version 2.0, an open source effort to implement the Microsoft .NET development framework for Unix, Linux and other platforms, was formally released today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/06/2008
Rumors that Microsoft initiated a hiring freeze are not true, according to Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos, who denied it in accounts published on Friday.
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2008
Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
VSLive! New York keynote speaker highlights New York City’s .NET and open source development efforts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft prepares to release BizTalk Server 2009 and will release BizTalk Server 7, its next-generation SOA solution, next year.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference will bring previews of 'Oslo,' 'Rosario' and .NET Framework 4.0
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz, with Kurt Mackie contributin
- 10/01/2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
New Windows Server and .NET Framework 4.0 technologies aimed at developers who are building composite applications will be released at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. The server technologies are the first to support Microsoft's upcoming "Oslo" modeling platform, according to Microsoft.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008