Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/05/2008
Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky started WinHEC by telling developers how Windows 7 will make it easier to integrate device drivers and provide an improved user experience.
Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/05/2008
As Microsoft gets set to deliver its cloud-based services centered on the Windows Azure platform and Live Framework, the company's new identity management roadmap will be the key to addressing concerns about security and authentication.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/05/2008
Despite issuing a preemptive patch two weeks ago and another warning late last week, Redmond is now investigating a bug exploiting Windows Server Service for Windows 2000 that reportedly originated in China.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
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
Redmond reveals “Kilimanjaro,” the business intelligence-focused successor to SQL Server 2008.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 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
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
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