Microsoft Courts Open Source, This Time Without Talking Patents

Forget all you know about GPLv3. 07/31/2007

Ozzie Lays SaaS Talk on Thick

Will it be feast or famine for partners? 07/31/2007

Build Enterprise SOA With Rich Metadata

The Object Management Group's recent BPM Think Tank conference had a lot to say about service-oriented architecture (SOA). A highlight was David S. Frankel's presentation on model-driven business process platforms. Frankel is SAP Labs' lead standards architect for model-driven systems, and he brought his expertise to bear on both the promise and the considerable obstacles involved in scaling service-oriented architectures (SOA) in the enterprise. 07/30/2007

Adobe Releases ColdFusion 8

Adobe Systems is set to release a new version of its ColdFusion software development environment today (July 30). ColdFusion 8 provides an expanded set of tools and technologies aimed at developers building dynamic Web sites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). 07/30/2007

BPM Learns To Play With SOA

Tony Baer from OnStrategies livened up BPM Think Tank 2007 with his talk, "BPMs are from Venus -- SOAs from Mars." With that phrase, Baer  is basically saying that business process management (BPM) provides a top-down, business-side approach to enterprise application development, while service-oriented  architecture (SOA) takes a bottom-up IT approach. And they haven't met in the middle yet, so there's still a disconnect. 07/30/2007

Maybe Print Is Dead!

Microsoft Uses Web To Talk Open Source

Live Getting Legs

Vista: Over 60 Million Served?

Mailbag: Eugene Who?

Ozzie Reveals More About Live Platform Plans

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has provided a slightly clearer look at the underlying development infrastructure set to power the company's "software-plus-services" initiative. 07/27/2007

Komodo IDE Selected for Stamp Database

A studio that specializes in developing interactive kiosks and presentations for museums selected ActiveState's Komodo integrated development environment (IDE) to create a Web-based display for the National Postal Museum's collection of stamps and objects. 07/27/2007

Microsoft: 60 Million Copies of Vista Sold

According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, Windows Vista has outsold Apple's entire installed base in the six months that Vista has been available. 07/27/2007

EU Charges Intel With Monopoly Abuse

EU regulators said Friday they have charged Intel Corp. with monopoly abuse for blocking rival computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s access to customers. 07/27/2007

Microsoft Reaches Out to OSS With Web Site

Microsoft: friend of open source software (OSS)? That's what a new Web site from the world's largest proprietary software company would have you believe. 07/27/2007

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Released

The much-anticipated beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 has been released this morning by Microsoft. 07/27/2007

Dell Expands Retail Presence to Japan

Dell Inc. is expanding its retail presence to Japan, where it will sell a variety of computers at Bic Camera stores. 07/27/2007

Microsoft To RTM Two Communications Products

Tomorrow, Microsoft takes the next step in effort to bridge the gap between telephone and computer, releasing to manufacturing (RTM) two key unified communications (UC) products. 07/26/2007

Solutions Speed Dev Times for Embedded Apps

Developers of software for embedded systems now have an improved tool to help produce software product variants in a more efficient fashion using a model driven development (MDD) approach. A partnership between Telelogic and BigLever Software made it possible. 07/26/2007

Microsoft Expansion on Horizon

Microsoft is changing, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, with new frontiers opening in the areas of advertising, hardware and electronics. 07/26/2007

Microsoft Confirms Windows XP SP3

An e-mail scant of details from a Microsoft spokesperson reveals that Windows XP SP3 will see release in the first half of 2008. 07/26/2007

CTP of Visual Studio Team System 'Rosario' Is Imminent

The next generation of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System is about to see the light of day. 07/26/2007

New Development Tools Scheduled for Interim Releases

The second beta for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 is due out today or tomorrow, heading the pack of a number of development-related product in various stages of life. 07/26/2007

Microsoft Misspells New Code Name

Redmond must have meant the football player. 07/26/2007

'Vista Bounce' More Like a Thud So Far

There's "no joy in Mudville" as partners await rebound from Vista sales. 07/26/2007

WGA Finally Proves Useful

Surely, it was worth your aggravation. 07/26/2007

Study: Microsoft-Novell Deal Good for Red Hat

Author of Alfresco survey attributes Red Hat's Linux gains to unhappiness with Microsoft-Novell patent-sharing deal. 07/26/2007

MySpace Finds 29,000 Sex Offenders

MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site -- more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday. 07/25/2007

Digg Fires Google for Online Ads

Digg Inc., a reader-powered news site, fired Google Inc. as its online advertising partner Wednesday in favor of a company Digg's top executive described as young and willing to take risks: Microsoft Corp. 07/25/2007

Vista Market Share On Steady Growth Curve

Windows Vista is gaining market share and is poised to become the second-most popular OS, surpassing Apple's Mac OS X. 07/25/2007

IPhone Sales Fall Short of Expectations

AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release. 07/25/2007

VersionOne Beefs Up Agile Management App

VersionOne is offering the latest release of its agile project planning and management solution. 07/25/2007

Apple 3Q Profit Surges More Than 73 Pct.

Apple Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit soared more than 73 percent, fueled by demand for its Macintosh computers and the strength of its iPod media players. 07/25/2007

Amazon Shares Soar on Strong Q2 Profit

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. soared 26 percent on Wednesday, a day after the Web retailer reported its second-quarter profit more than tripled on strong sales of books, music and electronics. 07/25/2007

Microsoft and Feds Bust Chinese Pirates

Mixed message sent by enforcement clampdown. 07/25/2007

Microsoft Rolls Out the Benefits Wheel

Guide helps companies more easily find Microsoft partnership benefits. 07/25/2007

Time for Google To Lawyer Up?

Pending DoubleClick acquisition gets a second look. 07/25/2007

Redmond To Show Off Hosting Wares

New apps to be part of Windows Server 2008. 07/25/2007

Researchers Hack Into iPhone Via Web

Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored Web site or Internet hotspot, security researchers reported Monday. 07/24/2007

Hidden Gold in Partner-to-Partner Transactions

Networking within the channel can lead to big revenue opportunities, IDC study finds. 07/24/2007

New Dynamics Duo

With the release of GP 10 and SL 7, Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to a four-suite Dynamics strategy. 07/24/2007

Second SQL Server 2008 CTP Coming Soon

Look for improvements in the way policies are set up in SQL Server 2008 when Microsoft releases the next community test preview (CTP) of the database server by month's end. 07/24/2007

The Gold Club

Here's a listing of more companies that achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status. 07/24/2007

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Is Imminent

The second beta of Visual Studio 2008 is slated to drop sometime this week, according to a blog. 07/24/2007

China, FBI Bust Pirate Software Gangs

The FBI and Chinese police busted two software piracy gangs and seized programs worth an estimated $500 million, officials said Tuesday. 07/24/2007

Researchers Seek Cash for Software Flaws

For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money. 07/23/2007

Next Windows Desktop OS: Windows 7

Windows Vista has barely been in the hands of consumers six months, but its successor already has a ship date. 07/23/2007

Open Source Gains Edge in Alfresco Survey

Alfresco Software, a provider of open source enterprise content management solutions, conducted a survey of its "Alfresco community members" on the use of open source software in the enterprise. 07/23/2007

HP To Buy Opsware for $1.6 Billion

Computer and printer company Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it will buy data center automation software company Opsware Inc. for about $1.6 billion. 07/23/2007

Microsoft, Yahoo Tweak Privacy Policies

Hopping on the privacy-protection bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are limiting how long their Internet search engines retain potentially sensitive data about their users. 07/23/2007