Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Redmond strengthens open source ties by joining the Apache Software Foundation and contributing a PHP-to-SQL patch.
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases DB Optimizer, a new toolset designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Roger weighs in on the reasons behind the controversy surrounding Entity Framework.
- By Roger Jennings
- 08/01/2008
Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial bring geospatial technology to the enterprise.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/01/2008
These products can help make your occasional forays into the world of databases much easier to take.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2008
Worldwide Partner Conference announcement promises Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will be ready to ship by the end of September.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
You've already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse (DW) appliance in your future?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/28/2008
Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/23/2008
The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2008