The next generation of Microsoft's efforts at unified communications will be unveiled on Oct. 16.
Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault."
The CMDB Federation (CMDBf) announced the availability of a draft specification that describes a way to share information between configuration management databases (CMDBs) and management data repositories (MDRs).
CodeGear, the development-tools arm of Borland Software Corp., is set to release a group of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open source development platform next month. Collectively called JGear, the plug-ins are designed to address pain points faced by Java developers using Eclipse-based tools.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2007
The Utah federal court judge's ruling on August 10 -- that SuSE Linux distributor Novell does, in fact, own the copyrights to the UNIX operating system -- signals a major legal blow for The SCO Group. It ends a nearly-five-year-old legal campaign that sowed fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) among Linux users and developers.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2007
ComponentOne LLC issues update to enterprise toolset.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2007
Ozzie dishes more details on Microsoft’s platform in the cloud.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/15/2007
Microsoft steps into the BitTorrent file-sharing space with 'Avalanche.'
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2007
Boasts several new features for testers to evaluate.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/15/2007
Study gives Microsoft’s application server technology high marks.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/15/2007
VMware Inc. and Borland Software Corp. team up around testing.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 08/15/2007
Microsoft's flagship IDE should ship by December.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/15/2007
Vendor’s test finds no clear winner among app-scanning tools.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 08/15/2007
SlickEdit 2007 scores points with its user interface options and code-writing capabilities, but it’s not for beginners.
Watchfire Corp. official says .NET focus will continue following sale to IBM Corp.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 08/15/2007
Microsoft to host IronRuby on RubyForge, not CodePlex.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/15/2007
The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/08/2007
Microsoft on Tuesday officially released several updates for Windows Vista -- fixes that were initially released to the public last week, before being pulled down.
Longtime Java vendor issues dashboard-diagramming tool for .NET
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/01/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to include tooling for radio frequency identification technology.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/01/2007