The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
Infragistics unveils new icon packs to improve application navigation and enhance Web sites.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2008
Testing tools vendor Ranorex releases automated application-testing solution for Windows, .NET and Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Phase 2 International offers hosted SaaS solution for Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2008
Black Hat Technical Information Security Conference highlights JavaScript-based Web applications’ vulnerability to malware.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009, updated versions of dev tools acquired in its purchase of CodeGear.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Microsoft’s UrlScan 3.0 is an improved security filter for Internet Information Services Web server designed to prevent SQL-injection attacks.
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/12/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released late last month, so I gave it a test run.
Sun Microsystems today launched the latest salvo in the virtualization wars with the release of new and upgraded tools and services around its xVM technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2008
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Microsoft, as part of its overall initiative to support modeling capabilities, especially in its .NET Framework, today joined the Object Management Group (OMG), a nonprofit organization that fosters integration standards for the enterprise.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
As hackers continue to focus their attention on virtualized environments, those looking to adopt virtualization technologies should proceed with caution, according to report from InfoWorld.
- By GCN.com Staff
- 09/09/2008
Microsoft described its next service-oriented architecture solution, which is "on track for availability during the first half of 2009."
Paul Cosgrave, commissioner of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), talks about the city's approach to software development in this extended Q&A.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
Microsoft launched the first TV commercial in its new $300 million ad campaign that's designed to spur consumer interest in Microsoft operating system products.
New York City is stepping up its .NET development efforts, but at the same time it is moving aggressively to expand use of open source technology, according to the city's top IT official.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.