Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 to MSDN customers for downloading, making it the first of the "big three" platforms of the coming "Global Launch Wave."
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/19/2007
Microsoft recently tapped Reed Sturtevant, a Lotus, Radnet and Idealab vet, to spearhead concept development in its spiffy new Cambridge, Mass. facility.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/16/2007
Data breaches, ongoing integrity concerns about the Windows Vista operating system and spam, which reached record levels this year, topped Symantec's Top 10 Internet security trends of 2007 list.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/16/2007
The nonprofit OASIS standards group has created a technical committee in support of the Service Data Objects (SDO) specification at OASIS. The SDO spec, which is a subset of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) spec, aims at simplifying data handling in service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
Tester Center Web site provides community for QA pros.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2007
NetIQ launches 'Run book automation' platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2007
Windows SharePoint Services decoupled from Windows Server.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/15/2007
Infragistics releases new tools for WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2007
Microsoft’s Robotics Studio group seeks to simplify robotic apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2007
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