Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2009
Atalasoft Inc. is launching a SharePoint plug-in based on the document imaging tooling in its latest SDK.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/12/2009
The battle for mindshare of rich interactive application developers took a step forward today as Sun Microsystems released a follow-up to its recently released JavaFX platform with its anticipated mobile edition.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2009
Worldwide shipments of PC microprocessors plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to a report announced on Wednesday by the International Data Group (IDC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/11/2009
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
On Monday open-source middleware maker WSO2 unveiled a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework built on the OSGi specification.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2009
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/10/2009
Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products on Tuesday at its FASTforward'09 event in Las Vegas.
Microsoft over the weekend acknowledged it is planning a service that will allow users of its Windows Mobile operating system to synchronize data on their devices with the Web.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2009
Google has licensed a patent from Microsoft that will allow synchronization of Exchange Server and the popular Gmail service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2009
Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.
Microsoft has followed up on the release of its Windows 7 Beta by rolling out another build of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit.
NCover Inc. is releasing version 3.0 this week of its flagship code coverage analysis tooling for .NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/06/2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/06/2009
Infragistics has launched Quince, a new (and free) "interactive [User Experience] UX patterns catalog and community resource to build user interfaces."
A debate erupted over the effectiveness of the user account control feature in Microsoft's beta release of Windows 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
DynaTrace Software this week upgraded its platform to allow developers to monitor, test and troubleshoot globally distributed SOA-based applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/05/2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2009