Microsoft will unveil three security enhancements as part of its upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release, slated for early 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/10/2007
By 2012, smart phones that use a scaled-down variant of the open source Linux operating system will account for roughly 31 percent of all smart devices in the marketplace, according to ABI Research. Linux smartphone technology will see its fastest growth, with annual growth rates as high as 75 percent, in the 2007 to 2012 period.
Yesterday, Microsoft released the next component in its growing virtualization product line, announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). General availability is expected in October.
Microsoft has dropped one fix from its September "Patch Tuesday" update, pulling Security Bulletin 5 that affected Windows and SharePoint Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/07/2007
IT workers continue to ride a strong wave of increasing experience to a third straight year of high earnings, according to <i>Redmond</i> magazine's 12th annual Salary Survey.
Microsoft's patch rollout looks to be on the light side in September, with just five patches -- one of which is labeled "Critical" and four rated "Important" -- as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/06/2007
CodeGear is releasing a rapid application development (RAD) environment for database-driven Web-based applications that supports multiple versions of Microsoft Windows as well as the .NET Framework. The company's new RAD Studio 2007integrated development environment (IDE) supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista operating systems.
Microsoft has turned on the Silverlight.
Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.
The next beta versions of the products that make up the Windows Live suite were made available today.
New Zealand firm debuts object-relational mapping toolset.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/01/2007
Symantec Corp. boosts .NET features in Application Performance Management platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/01/2007
Oracle Corp.’s new database involves some a la carte pricing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2007
The vast majority of Java developers who contribute their time and talent to open source software projects labor in obscurity, never getting any useful recognition for their efforts. Mark Kofman and Anton Litvinenko believe it's high time to give credit where credit is due.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/31/2007
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/30/2007