As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/17/2008
Microsoft released documentation on Tuesday designed to help developers create applications compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, particularly if they need to understand how Office 2007 implements the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.
Cisco's 2008 Annual Security Report report highlighted the increasing sophistication of Internet-based attacks, largely because cyber-criminals themselves are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/16/2008
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has updated its set of recommendations for designing Web pages so they can easily accessed by those with disabilities.
- By Joab Jackson
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft will end 2008 with a "critical" out-of-cycle patch for IE, according to an advance notification issued Tuesday for a new security update slated for release on Dec. 17.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft won't say exactly when it will ship the Release Candidate of its Internet Explorer 8 browser but it's "just around the corner," according to a senior company official.
Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/16/2008
Sun Microsystems joins Microsoft and Adobe in the RIA race with the launch of its JavaFX runtime, platform and development tools.
- By Michael Desmond and John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
"Kilimanjaro" and "Madison" will enable centralized application- and systems-management and massive parallel processing in SQL Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
A zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer 7 reported last week has sparked increased hacker activity, and now the attacks involve most versions of Microsoft's Internet browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/15/2008
After its Powerset acquisition, Microsoft is pushing semantic search as the replacement for traditional keyword search.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
Release candidate of Redmond’s Web Platform Installer now supports Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
After its Powerset acquisition, Microsoft is pushing semantic search as the replacement for traditional keyword search.
- By Michael Desmond and John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 2008 comes with increased
runtime performance and improved tooling.
- By John K. Waters, Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2008
Despite progress by Microsoft, the economy could put projects lacking quick ROI at risk.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) on Monday unveiled a limited private community technology preview (CTP) of "SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management [tools], as part of the SQL Server codename 'Kilimanjaro,'" according to a PASS spokesperson.
DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/12/2008
Google is exploring a way to run code fast and natively in a Web browser without worrying about security issues.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/11/2008
Web developers have traditionally kept multiple browsers on their computers to facilitate testing, but a fairly new Japanese-made experimental browser called Lunascape rolls the three most important engines into one.