The November CTP is "feature complete," but developers will still have to wait for the PowerPivot-enabled business intelligence with Excel and SharePoint.
MissionKit 2010 promises productivity improvements across a suite of tools addressing XML, data, modeling and Web services.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/11/2009
Visual Studio plug-in lets Windows developers create .NET-compatible Mono applications that run on Linux, Unix and Mac-based systems.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/11/2009
Microsoft rolled out six security fixes in its November patch on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/10/2009
An organization's security has a lot to do with its E-mail system, a top security official at Microsoft suggested.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/10/2009
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is adding features to the next release of its core interop tool that will integrate distributed transactions between enterprise Java and .NET platforms.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/10/2009
Microsoft announced today in Berlin that it has acquired the Teamprise Client Suite, which supports Eclipse and other cross-platform environments for Team Foundation Server.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/09/2009
Microsoft officials announced the public release of Exchange 2010 on Monday.
Microsoft updates its security-minded software development guidance to address challenges posed by agile development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/09/2009
Security experts commented on Version 7 of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report, which was announced this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2009
After a record-breaking Patch Tuesday in October, November's security update promises to be a bit lighter with six scheduled fixes, three deemed "critical" and three "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/05/2009
IBM today launched application lifecycle management and test and development tools for its public and private cloud-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/05/2009
The Q3 release offers a native Silverlight report viewer and full ORM support for SQL Azure, among other enhancements.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will release the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/03/2009
Microsoft issued a "Fix it"-style patch on Tuesday for a Windows 7 upgrade problem that results in a system hang.
Companies will provide single IDE for developing enterprise-grade Flash and API apps deployed on Force.com.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/03/2009
Microsoft has been trying to clarify details on upgrading to Windows 7 for individual users, but it's been a bumpy ride at best.
Despite recent initiatives, the possibility of a machine-readable Web extolled by World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee still faces many obstacles, he admitted recently at a conference.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/02/2009
Microsoft's flagship IDE is taking an incremental step forward with the second beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2009
Microsoft is developing application compatibility tools for Office 2010 to help IT organizations migrate to the new productivity suite when it becomes available.