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
Microsoft plans to roll out only one "critical" patch on Tuesday, affecting PowerPoint, for its May security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/07/2009
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 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.
In a move promises to have significant ramifications for customers, partners and competitors, Oracle last monday announced its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Readers share their thoughts on Microsoft's SDS change of heart, and VSM's redesign.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2009
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft at the game it practically invented.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2009
The general release date for Windows 7 on new PCs could be as early as this October, according to an Acer executive.
The release candidate (RC) of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, can be downloaded today by Microsoft TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers.
Microsoft provided a couple of Windows 7 tidbits on Friday, confirming the availability of Windows 7 release candidate (RC) and describing a forthcoming virtualization capability in the new operating system.
IBM this week announced a new version of its flagship DB2 database with software that will provide compatibility with applications built for Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/23/2009