While Microsoft's record revenues of $16.4 billion and earnings of $4.7 billion for the second quarter put the spotlight on strong sales of Vista and Office, Redmond's latest financial report also showed steady growth in its server and tools business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2008
Adobe has released two new full version upgrades in its Flash Media Server line: Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3.
Yesterday, Microsoft posted the final version of the .NET Framework 3.5 to its download site, as well as several updates to other .NET Framework versions.
Microsoft has posted a number of Vista fixes to its download Web site in the past week.
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates.
A rumor is spreading across the Web that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) may be scheduled to arrive on Feb. 15.
IBM announced last week that it would open up its Jazz.net development platform to developers. Jazz
Zend Technologies launched its PHP-based Web application server, Zend Platform 3.6, as a general-availability product, while simultaneously announcing the immediate availability of Zend Studio for Eclipse, its IDE plug-in for PHP development.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2008
Web developers who use the increasingly popular combo of the Ruby programming language with the Rails framework, better known as Ruby on Rails, now have an open source framework for providing and/or consuming Web services.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2008
Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/21/2008
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
ChangeWave says Apple's Leopard operating system gets high marks from consumers, with Vista editions trailing the pack.
Microsoft this week took steps to assure Office developers that it has no plans to kill off Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Following reports that Microsoft released "Milestone 1" for Windows 7 to several partners, TG Daily reports that software will get released in late 2009.
Green IT. Everyone wants it or is paying lip service about wanting it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/18/2008
Last month, Redmond released an early build of "Volta," a set of tools for building Web apps that run across multiple tiers.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/18/2008
Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2008
Redmond's MEDC will be rolled into ESC and Tech Ed 2008.
A Microsoft spokesperson said today that Rob Short, corporate vice president of Windows Core Technology, left the Redmond, Wash.-based company last month.
Oracle Corp. and BEA Systems announced today that they have completed a deal whereby Oracle will acquire BEA for $7.2 billion, or $19.375 per share.