This week Microsoft released the latest preview version of its model view controller (MVC) architecture for Web application frameworks.
A touch user interface turned out to be the big surprise in Windows 7, the latest operating system being developed by Microsoft.
Google is set to unveil the latest version of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) at the company's first big developer conference, Google I/O, scheduled to run this week (May 28 and 29) in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/27/2008
Windows 7, the code-name for Microsoft's upcoming operating system, will be demonstrated at "D6: All Things Digital," according to a blog note for the sold-out event.
Senior Technical Account Manager at Microsoft New Zealand Nick MacKechnie posted on his MSDN blog that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is coming in the "third quarter" of this year.
Microsoft released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week.
With billionaire investor Carl Icahn's consortium of investors looking to take over Yahoo's board at its upcoming shareholder meeting, Yahoo has bought itself more time by pushing back the meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July."
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/22/2008
Codemesh bridges the Java-to-.NET gap at Deutsche Post.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/22/2008
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007.
Microsoft now wants to buy just a part of Yahoo, according to the latest rumors hitting the dailies.
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are back on the table again, but maybe not about the acquisition bid.
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2008
Cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/19/2008
Microsoft warned developers on Thursday that if they're getting an error when installing the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta released Monday, they need to uninstall the hotfix KB944899 that came with the earlier version of the release.
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.
Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/16/2008
Evans Data research indicates only eight percent of developers in North America are writing applications for Vista, even though the OS has been live for 15 months.
Concerns over SQL Server 2008’s third-quarter release date stoked by SQL Server 2005 SP3 release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/15/2008