Silverlight 2, the latest version of
Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia
applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials
announced on Monday.
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
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
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/19/2008
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
Sun Microsystems today launched the latest salvo in the virtualization wars with the release of new and upgraded tools and services around its xVM technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2008
IBM joins forces with Red Hat, Novell and Canonical to push Linux distributions onto the desktop.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Alfresco Software’s open source enterprise content management system presents a new challenge to SharePoint.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2008
Unify and Casahl Technology work together to ease integration between Lotus Notes and SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft plans to pour an additional money into business and open source technology collaboration with Novell.
The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
Intel updates Threading Building Blocks library, a developer resource for writing parallelized C++ code for multi-core CPUs.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/15/2008
Redmond strengthens open source ties by joining the Apache Software Foundation and contributing a PHP-to-SQL patch.
VMware joined the Linux Foundation on Monday.