Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
So far, the reviews of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are encouraging.
- By Kathleen Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2009
In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/16/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Attunity Ltd. today released software that allows developers to apply change data capture (CDC) between Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/27/2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits are available to MSDN subscribers today. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/11/2009
The middleware software market has entered the slow lane in 2009, according to a Gartner report announced on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/07/2009
Microsoft plans to roll out only one "critical" patch on Tuesday, affecting PowerPoint, for its May security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/07/2009
Microsoft announced that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.
Products to Lower cost application performance maintenace and drive ODBC harder.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2009
Eliminate "data model archeology" by analyzing your enterprise's systems to find out where data is actually being used.