Microsoft set to unveil Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/15/2007
OpenDocument Foundation withdraws support for OpenDocument Format.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2007
Microsoft’s ‘Oslo’ initiative advances Software+Services campaign.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2007
Borland Together 2007 makes modeling easier with DSLs.
Windows Vista is now on the migration map for most enterprise customers, at least according to one researcher. But it's still getting hammered in the media.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/14/2007
Microsoft today launched an updated version of its Windows Embedded CE platform with a release that will let developers build new devices that take advantage of some of the APIs and Web services interfaces available on Windows Vista and the company’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/14/2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/14/2007
Microsoft took the next step into the arena of high-performance computing (HPC) today when it announced the release of the first beta of Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Compute Cluster Server 2003.
Open source solution vendor Red Hat is collaborating with Sun Microsystems with the aim of creating a "fully compatible, open source Java Development Kit (JDK) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux," according to an announcement issued by Red Hat.
Software AG recently unveiled Natural for AJAX, a variant of Software AG's Natural 2006 programming language. Natural 2006 is typically used at the enterprise level for transactional systems running on mainframes.
In one of the least stress-inducing Patch Tuesdays in memory, Microsoft released just two security bulletins today, one "Critical" and one "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2007
Microsoft announced that it plans to release today three non-security updates to Windows Vista, which will coincide with Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2007
The next preview of SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data types and a new Resource Governor feature is slated to hit in a week or two.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/12/2007
New server OS from Microsoft will come in eight different versions, including Web-specific server and server virtualization product.
The 2002 consent decree that partially governs Microsoft's actions about its monopolistic business practices was originally supposed to expire today. But Redmond is currently locked in a battle with a coalition of states that want to see federal oversight extended for another half-decade.
Microsoft has unveiled the official name of the server virtualization technology that will be included with Windows Server 2008 early next year: Hyper-V.
November looks to be one of the thinnest patches releases of 2007 as Microsoft said it plans to release just two security bulletins.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/08/2007
Electric Cloud's automated software development process offering will now integrate with VMWare's Lab Manager, the company said Wednesday.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/07/2007
XAware Inc. has released its latest data integration software under an open source GPLv2 license and also achieved Gold Partner status in the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance program.
Microsoft has unveiled a multi-year, multi-product initiative, code-named "Oslo," that reflects a number of its recent enterprise solution strategies.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/06/2007