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Jazz Gets Visual Studio Support

IBM’s Rational Software unit set to release Team Concert version

Tool Optimizes New Windows Mobile

Microsoft releases Mobile Device Manager 2008 with improved support for Windows Mobile devices and third-party tools.

Gates Bids Developers Farewell

Redmond's chairman uses Tech-Ed keynote to talk up 'Oslo,' 'Velocity,' Silverlight and other dev tools.

Xenocode Virtualizes Apps

Xenocode releases Virtual Application Studio tool suite.

Google Tightens Its Gears

Google's first major developer conference focuses on improvements to 'Gears,' its cloud-based browser extension.

Majority of Data Breaches Go Unnoticed, Study Finds

Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security.

Yahoo: Microsoft Talks Done, No Deal Coming

Yahoo today said its talks with Microsoft focusing on acquiring all or part of the company are officially over -- a position that Microsoft appears to be at least partially disputing.

EC Official Talks Open Standards, Raps Microsoft

A speech given yesterday by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition, skewered Microsoft without mentioning the company by name.

ISO Benches Microsoft OOXML

Due to objections from four countries, the International Organization for Standardization has temporarily put a hold on publishing Microsoft Office Open XML as an ISO standard.

Microsoft Releases 7 Patches, 3 Critical

Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."

Report: Office 14 May Be Office 2009

Technology reporter Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft FAQ that appears to indicate Microsoft's official name for the next version of Office.

RC0 Version of SQL Server 2008 Available

Microsoft rolled out Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2008, which is available for evaluation by developers and database administrators who want an early look at the relational database management system.

Microsoft Pulls 'Open Source' Release, Apologizes

The director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab Sam Ramji posted an apology on Friday for not releasing the source code for one of its open source projects.

Microsoft Releases Windows Embedded Standard CTP

In a bid to modernize the embedded version of its Windows software, Microsoft this week has released the community technology preview (CTP) of a newly revamped version set to ship by year's end.

Opinion: Gates' Tech-Ed Farewell

Don shares his take on Gates' keynote goodbye to developers.

Microsoft To Issue 7 Patches This Month

Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.

Sun Web Server Hit with Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

A security research firm has found multiple flaws in Web server software from Sun Microsystems that would collectively allow attackers to log on, gain root access, peruse and delete files, and execute malicious commands.

Report: Cyberspace Becoming More Malicious

Online security company MessageLabs found that more than three-quarters of the e-mail messages it scanned in May were spam, an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous month, said Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief security analyst.

Microsoft Starts Global Rollout of Retail Consumer Web Sites

Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.

Microsoft To Add Architecture Explorer to Visual Studio

Microsoft announced Tuesday at its Tech-Ed conference that it will add a new tool to Visual Studio that will visually model applications.

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