Microsoft's Toulouse thinks Windows Vista's new security walls will prove thick enough.
- By Ed Scannell and Peter Varhol
- 05/01/2007
Some analysts say, "Whoa, not so fast!"
Company recognized for its governance solution, which helps manage enterprise applications in a service-oriented architecture.
A niche software company says it will rename one of its programs, admitting
defeat in a three-year effort to win money from Microsoft Corp. after it claimed
the name was too close to Excel.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/01/2007
Microsoft Corp. likes to promote Windows Vista as its most secure operating system release ever. And with good reason. After all, the company put a lot of software-development elbow grease into its top-to-bottom redesign of Vista's default security experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/01/2007
The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts
the reach of U.S. patents overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/30/2007
On April 28, Microsoft confirmed in a blog posting that the ADO.NET Entity Framework is now officially out of the next version of Visual Studio codenamed Orcas.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/30/2007
Capability will allow developers to program against Silverlight for both Windows and Mac environments using any .NET-supported languages
Microsoft today announced Silverlight Streaming, a media-hosting service the company says will allow developers to stream into their Silverlight apps high-quality video and other media stored for free on Redmond's servers.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 04/30/2007
A growing number of financial services firms are embarking on open source projects, but they are moving cautiously when it comes to mission-critical applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E).
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/27/2007
Google Inc. yanked paid advertisements linked to some 20 search terms that online criminals had hijacked to steal banking and other personal information from Web surfers looking for the Better Business Bureau and other sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007
The latest semi-annual release of "The Web CMS Report" examines Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and concludes that despite its strengths in managing documents in a collaborative environment, the software isn't a smart choice for managing traditional Web sites.
- By James E. Powell
- 04/26/2007
100,000. That's the number of new jobs that India's top five software companies plan to add this fiscal year, riding a boom in outsourcing that's fattened profits. That's on top of a record 76,500 new employees who joined these companies last year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007
Microsoft released solid earnings figures for the third quarter that included debuts of the retail version of Windows Vista and 2007 Office System.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/26/2007
In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/26/2007