Microsoft today described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2008
Microsoft announced through two blogs that it plans to release the next service pack to SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 3 (SP3).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2008
Ingram Micro is adding hosted Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Dynamics CRM to its Seismic-branded portfolio of software and hosted infrastructure that is designed to help solution providers launch themselves into the managed service provider business.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2008
Avnet Inc., the large Phoenix-based technology distributor, warned this week that earnings for its third quarter of 2008 would fall below management expectations.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2008
Enrique Lores, a 20-year HP veteran who joined the company in 1988 as an R&D engineer, will take over HP's channel program and worldwide PC sales
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2008
N-able Technologies this week unveiled a free, one-year subscription for North American Microsoft partners to a version of its hosted remote monitoring and management software for managed service providers.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2008
As of yesterday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2008
Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack."
- By John K. Waters
- April 16, 2008
Windows Vista might be getting dinged in the press lately, but it's not stopping anyone from seeking the MCTS: Vista -- Configuration certification. In fact, the title appear to be one of the hottest of the new-generation MCP exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- April 15, 2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported Monday that William Poole, one of the Windows executives who oversaw the development of Vista, has left the company.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 15, 2008
In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 15, 2008
Mark Logic Corp. has submitted its Extensible Markup Language (XML) database server for Common Criteria certification.
- By Joab Jackson
- April 15, 2008
Citrix Systems announced Monday that its new enterprise desktop virtualization product, XenDesktop, will debut next month.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 15, 2008
Rumors that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will appear this month continue to flourish.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2008
In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- April 14, 2008
About a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.
- By David Nagel
- April 11, 2008
The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2008
Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- April 10, 2008