Three new tools let programmers examine application code for SQL-injection vulnerabilities.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/15/2008
Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/10/2008
In a move that sent shock waves across the virtualization market, VMware's board of directors announced that Diane Greene, the company's co-founder, president and CEO, will be replaced by Paul Maritz, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft and head of EMC's Cloud Division.
Microsoft adds velocity to data-driven apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a free Web-based productivity and collaboration tools bundle.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are organized as massively scalable, super-reliable, highly available Web services.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2008
iAnywhere Solutions Inc. opens beta program for its SQL Anywhere 11 embedded and mobile database-management system.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
Redmond’s Secure Development Lifecycle requirements aim to counter security defects in the face of recent SQL attacks.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft's first major push into the virtualization space officially kicks off today, as Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing (RTM).
Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1, which is still in beta, are staging a protest against the software giant by expressing what they call a "vote of no confidence" in the technology.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/25/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a new security advisory after the discovery of "a recent escalation in a class of attacks" targeting Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2008
Microsoft rolled out Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2008, which is available for evaluation by developers and database administrators who want an early look at the relational database management system.
Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
Access data in the cloud with REST.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/01/2008
New Service Packs for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 bring data-access technology to .NET Framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/22/2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
Microsoft warned developers on Thursday that if they're getting an error when installing the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta released Monday, they need to uninstall the hotfix KB944899 that came with the earlier version of the release.
Concerns over SQL Server 2008’s third-quarter release date stoked by SQL Server 2005 SP3 release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/15/2008