Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.
Microsoft announced Tuesday at its Tech-Ed conference that it will add a new tool to Visual Studio that will visually model applications.
A Microsoft executive said today that Microsoft may be considering rebranding its Live search engine brand.
Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/03/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
IBM's Rational Software division today unveiled 20 new commercial products based on its Jazz collaboration platform and opened up the Jazz community to all interested parties.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
While last month's JavaOne conference focused on the next generation of the Java platform, there's a growing ecosystem of tools to connect existing Java-based apps to those based on Microsoft's .NET environment.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft refreshes its Expression Studio Suite with upgrades to all five Expression tools.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
MySQL gives Microsoft a nod from the open source community at the MySQL Conference and Expo.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
JavaOne conference showcases growing number of tools connecting Java and .NET applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
Codejock Technologies offers improved toolkits to Visual C++ and ActiveX developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2008
Oracle completes BEA Systems acquisition, putting pressure on Microsoft’s .NET middleware and SOA strategies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/01/2008
Embarcadero Technologies will purchase CodeGear from Borland, and plans to continue support for CodeGear products.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2008
New Service Packs for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 bring data-access technology to .NET Framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft late last week launched a revamped iteration of its highly trafficked resource sites for developers and IT professionals.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2008
Symantec officials described a workaround to a problem that has affected some users upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 3 who also use Symantec's security solutions.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2008
Google's long-percolating application development environment, the Google App Engine, is now generally available to the public at large, the company said today.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/28/2008
This week Microsoft released the latest preview version of its model view controller (MVC) architecture for Web application frameworks.