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Ballmer Drops Hints About Windows 7, Cloud Computing

Microsoft's CEO talked about Windows 7 and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event on Thursday.

Fake Microsoft Security Update Makes Rounds

Sophos quickly warns of fake Trojan-laden e-mail disguised as Microsoft Security Bulletin update hitting inboxes.

Microsoft Posts Touchless SDK on Codeplex

A software project by a Columbia University computer science student to eliminate the need for multiple hardware-based touch interfaces is now on Microsoft's Codeplex site.

Microsoft Unleashes Tool For Web Developers

Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.

Visual Studio to Include jQuery Library

Microsoft to integrate jQuery library into Visual Studio and ASP.NET.

Oracle Takes Another Stab at Collaboration

Oracle offers up 'Beehive,' its own enterprise-collaboration platform.

Elementool Bug Tracking 6.0

Elementool is now shipping Bug Tracking 6.0, a Web-based software dev management suite that detects, tracks and resolves software bugs.

Amazon EC2 Opening to Windows Developers

Amazon.com will allow developers to run Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server databases on its Elastic Compute Cloud service.

Microsoft Partners on ECM Spec

Microsoft, IBM and EMC band together to form the Content Management Interoperability Services specification.

API Promises to Ease Virtual Development

Skytap releases app-programming interface that simplifies usage of its new cloud-based service.

Adobe Courts Designers and Developers

Creative Suite version 4 ties together design and development features for print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production.

Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate Available

Release Candidate 0 (RC0) Developer Runtime edition is now available for download.

Mono 2.0 Takes Flight

Mono version 2.0 is released, featuring an improved C# compiler and extended support for LINQ.

Media Player Malefactors

Cenzic claims media players contribute to many Web app vulnerabilities.

A Tale of Two 'Cities'

Will 'Oslo' and 'Dublin' ease your distributed-systems development?

Microsoft Posts ASP.NET MVC Beta for Download

Today Microsoft released the official beta for ASP.NET MVC, its model view controller architecture for Web applications based on the .NET 3.5 Framework.

Silverlight 2 Now Available

Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials announced on Monday.

Busy October Patch Cycle Comes Around with 11 Fixes

Security-minded admins have their work cut out for them, as Microsoft coughs up 11 fixes in its October patch cycle.

Fortinet Helps DBAs Sniff Out DB Exploits

New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.

Microsoft Promises To Improve UAC in Windows 7

Microsoft has been talking about future changes to Windows Vista's most maligned feature, User Account Control (UAC).

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