The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
SDK of Touchless, which allows use of a webcam as a graphical input device, is now available for download on CodePlex.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
With Silverlight 2, the focus moves to optimizing development of RIA-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Web App Installer from Redmond provides a single way for developers to gather ASP.NET- and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Mark Logic releases MarkLogic Server 4.0, with added support for
geospatial data, dynamic content and entity enrichment.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 adds new APIs and integration with Visual Studio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Compuware delivers DevPartner Studio 9.0, an upgraded version of its
automated code-scanning and analysis suite.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft releases beta of model-view-controller framework with a go-live license.
- By Becky Nagel and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Redmond reveals “Kilimanjaro,” the business intelligence-focused successor to SQL Server 2008.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Microsoft will join a working group to support an open standard for multiplatform messaging in the enterprise, according to a company statement issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/30/2008
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/30/2008
Developers this week heard more about the planned upgrade of Microsoft's platform for integrating e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing and telephony at this week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/30/2008
Microsoft will release a beta of the second service pack for Vista "to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers."
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
It looks like that Redmond's hunch was correct when it issued an out-of-cycle security patch late last week, because on Wednesday Microsoft identified publicly available exploit code related to that vulnerability.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.