A year after its initial release, Microsoft today announced it is shipping the first service pack for Office 2007.
- By James E. Powell
- 12/11/2007
Microsoft Corp. has started placing advertisements on the U.S. version of MSN Mobile, a Web portal for cell phone browsers that connects users with Hotmail, instant messaging, search, news and other content.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/10/2007
Microsoft posted a "public" beta of Office Live Workspace, cloud-based functions that it says complement its on-premise Office franchise.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/10/2007
Nothing has prevented ASP.NET developers from using a model view controller (MVC) architecture. But it's likely to get a lot easier with Microsoft's ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which will include the highly anticipated MVC option. The first preview of the technology was released today.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/10/2007
Borland plans to integrate business intelligence (BI) capabilities into its Open Application Lifecycle Management (Open ALM) solutions in the coming year.
Borland commissioned a study on the effectiveness of performance measurements in application development projects. The study surveyed 20 application development and project management organizations with revenues ranging from $1 billion to $5 billion.
Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager for MSDN, faces arraignment this week on 18 felony counts of wire and mail fraud in the U.S. District Court of Washington, Western District of Washington, Seattle.
Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6 and officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/07/2007
In case there was any doubt that virtualization is the hottest trend in IT, witness the rush of vendors glomming onto this technology.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is back on the roster for October 2008 in L.A.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/06/2007
Weakness in the U.S. economy figures to take a bite out of the technology industry's growth rate in 2008, when analysts expect tech spending to slow around the world.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft publishing release candidates of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack.
Internet giant Google Inc. and telecommunications carriers AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless are among those expected to bid in January in a government auction of the last remaining smidge of wireless airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/05/2007
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- 12/05/2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
Researcher in New Zealand discovered holes in Microsoft's Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) program.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/05/2007
SAP today showed off its latest CRM wares, recast as a good Web 2.0 citizen.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/04/2007
Microsoft said that the first service pack for Windows Vista will fight off known exploits as well as kill off its "reduced functionality mode."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2007