Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
Microsoft is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs and release extensive documentation of its protocols.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Ed Scannell
- 02/21/2008
Microsoft's new declarative programming language, code-named "D" will fall under Microsoft's Oslo software and services initiative, according to observers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/20/2008
Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic.
Microsoft is stopping automatic distribution of an update required to install Vista SP1 following reports of faulty reboots on some machines.
Xignite Inc., a provider of component-based financial services software, this month will roll out a hosted offering that will let corporate developers build and share composite .NET-based Web services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now available for testing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2008
Sybase readies a slew of products for mobile application developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/15/2008
Mozilla stays competitive with Google, Microsoft with its Weave framework for Firefox.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/15/2008
Web Standards Project has been designing Acid3 to be the next rendering milestone for modern browsers.
The beta of Microsoft's long-awaited RIA platform is weeks away. Are you ready for the .NET runtime in a browser?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/15/2008
Microsoft’s proposed Yahoo! acquisition could be good news for developers, analysts say.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/15/2008
Xignite’s new Splice platform gives Web services mashups a Web 2.0 flavor.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/15/2008
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
In a blog post Tuesday, Scott Guthrie, general manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, laid out the roadmap for its upcoming ASP.NET model view controller (MVC) framework for developing Web applications.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
Microsoft wants Silverlight to be a rich interactive application environment you can bank on -- literally.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2008
For the February security bulletin release, Microsoft rolled out six "Critical" fixes -- rather than the seven detailed in the advanced notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2008