Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.
Microsoft's first attempt to gain acceptance for its Open XML (OOXML) document format from a critical standards body has failed.
Windows Presentation Foundation has been greatly underserved by Microsoft’s emphasis on glitz and glamour; learn how to take advantage of WPF in your everyday Windows business apps.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007
Tools for those who need to fetch, store or transform XML, including in Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
The Open XML-encoded file format that competes with Microsoft's Office Open XML.
- By Erwin Tenhumberg
- 09/01/2007
Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack.
The CMDB Federation (CMDBf) announced the availability of a draft specification that describes a way to share information between configuration management databases (CMDBs) and management data repositories (MDRs).
The new default file format in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
SlickEdit 2007 scores points with its user interface options and code-writing capabilities, but it’s not for beginners.
Dan walks you through using the ScriptMethod Attribute.
Observers say Bay State’s tentative approval of Open XML could have ripple effect.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 08/01/2007
AJAX-era security requires tossing out a lot of what you thought you knew about security, starting with Same Origin Policy.
Analyst, firms warn that outsourcing development poses risk to
intellectual property.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 07/15/2007
JetBrains’ ReSharper 3.0 provides improved language support and
code-analysis capabilities.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/15/2007
Microsoft releases internal Scrum tools to bring Agile development
to the masses.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/15/2007