In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2007
Businesses running data-intensive Web applications need Web pages that can update incrementally. The technology to do so has been accelerated since 2005, with the advent of open standards such as AJAX, which is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript (JS) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2007
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2007
AJAX rich Internet applications (RIAs) on clients and service-oriented architecture (SOA) on servers are combining to produce more effective business software.
Microsoft expects to release seven security patches with four "Critical" and three "Important" bulletins as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/04/2007
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