In a surprise to absolutely no one, the official name of the next edition of Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE) will be Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft announced this week at its Tech Ed 2007 show in Orlando, Fla.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of its next generation of Visual Studio, intended for those who want to embed it into their own tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 05, 2007
Just when you thought it was safe to start planning your summer vacation, Cisco
Systems Inc. recently alerted customers to a spate of new vulnerabilities in
its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft said it expects to have Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, its virtual collaboration and conferencing software, released to manufacturing later next month, with availability some time this fall. The company made the announcement at the Tech Ed Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft's subscription-based desktop management program is adding another branch to its tree, in the form of error monitoring to help with crashes.
- By Keith Ward
- June 05, 2007
Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. will help Internet search leader Google Inc. sell ads as part of a partnership that falls short of Wall Street's anticipation since word of the alliance leaked last month.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2007
An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft this week released a preview of a new software development kit for use with the Open XML standards native to Office 2007.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 05, 2007
Internet search engine Ask.com has been chasing market leader Google Inc. for years without making much headway, but that hasn't deterred its engineers from trying to set the pace for innovation.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2007
Search terms related to music and technology are most likely to return sites with spyware and other malicious code, a new study finds.
- By The Associated Press
- June 04, 2007
Microsoft announced release of the first community technology preview of SQL Server 2008 at the Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 04, 2007
Microsoft has added another "core" product, one that will make Web hosting companies and Web farm administrators happy: Internet Information Services 7.0 is now available as a server core installation on Windows Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- June 04, 2007
Microsoft continues to collect Linux development and distribution companies under its promise not to sue them for patent infringement. Following on the controversial recent deal with Novell, the company announced Monday at its TechEd conference in Orlando that it has reached a similar agreement with Xandros Inc.
- By Keith Ward
- June 04, 2007
Presentation component vendor Infragistics on Monday announced it is developing tools for Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in, as well as a new set of server controls that will work on both ASP.NET 2.0 and the upcoming ASP.NET 3.5.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 04, 2007
Microsoft has done its part to contribute to security sprawl by releasing 10 new security and access products, under the umbrella designation of "Stirling."
- By Keith Ward
- June 04, 2007
Oracle is giving its .NET tools an upgrade and adding a new one to the portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 04, 2007
Microsoft on Monday unveiled its new "Dynamic IT for the People-Ready Business" strategy.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 04, 2007
When Google announced its latest foray into an area of software in which Microsoft holds dominance, it was hard to miss the swipes aimed at Redmond. The search giant has decided that it will no longer confine itself to online-only technologies, but wants to live in the offline world and compete with Microsoft there as well.
- By Keith Ward
- June 01, 2007
Online search leader Google Inc. said Friday it purchased FeedBurner, which helps bloggers and podcasters syndicate and make money from their online content, for an undisclosed sum.
- By The Associated Press
- June 01, 2007
Open source software (OSS) is poised for strong growth through the next half-decade, and some of that growth will come at the expense of proprietary software -- like the kind Microsoft makes -- according to a new study.
- By Keith Ward
- June 01, 2007