The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Developers sound off on the release of .NET Framework source code
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2007
Updated source code search engine from Koders serves midmarket.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 11/01/2007
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
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 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
Develop your own graphical languages with Microsoft's DSL Tools.
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
Five utilities and widgets distributed by Microsoft for .NET programmers.
- By Leonard Lobel and Brian Schmitt
- 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