In a surprise move, Microsoft said today it is releasing the reference source code for the .NET Framework libraries, a key step toward opening up the proprietary development platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/03/2007
Response Point is one of Microsoft's few hardware products, and is available only through OEMs
FormoPublish enables mobile app creation by non-technical workers.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2007
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
Office 2.0 Conference showcases Microsoft alternatives.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2007
CodeGear’s new RAD Studio 2007 lets developers access many of the company’s products from a single platform.
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 ships as expected
- By Chris Kanaracus and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
9Rays.Net releases new encryption security library.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 10/01/2007
Serena Software launches beta of hosted enterprise mashup service.
Developers skeptical of Microsoft’s effort to make OOXML a global standard.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2007
RDN talks with OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2007
Redmond announces new virtualization components, shows up at VMworld.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2007
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Jason Zander takes over Redmond’s Visual Studio team.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
Sun Microsystems, in conjunction with the <a href="https://glassfish.dev.java.net/" target="_blank">GlassFish Community</a>, announced the availability of GlassFish 2.0, a major server upgrade that works with the Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Software AG has added to its CentraSite governance solution products with a new CentraSite Governance Edition. It's part of a suite of solutions that Software AG offers to businesses deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.