Visual
Basic guru Paul Vick revealed this week on his blog that the company is
working on a reboot of Visual Basic, dubbed at this stage VBx
- By Chris Kanaracus
- May 03, 2007
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it expects to cut more than 1,000 jobs at its Rio Rancho plant as the company ends production of an older silicon wafer technology.
- By The Associated Press
- May 02, 2007
IdentityMine has released a community technology preview, or CTP, of a toolset for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers called "Blendables."
- By Keith Ward
- May 02, 2007
Operators of a Web site that ranks and displays items based on recommendations from its users relented this week in allowing people to post information and links on breaking the locks on high-definition DVDs.
- By The Associated Press
- May 02, 2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- May 02, 2007
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
- May 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
- May 01, 2007
The fortunes of the Ubuntu version of Linux got a boost on Tuesday as Dell Computer, Inc. announced it will begin selling the open source operating system with selected desktop and laptop models in its consumer lines
- By Ed Scannell
- May 01, 2007
Company recognized for its governance solution, which helps manage enterprise applications in a service-oriented architecture.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 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
- April 30, 2007
Capability will allow developers to program against Silverlight for both Windows and Mac environments using any .NET-supported languages
- By Mike Pizzo
- April 30, 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
- April 30, 2007
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
- April 30, 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
- April 27, 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
- April 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
- April 27, 2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
- By Keith Ward
- April 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
- April 27, 2007
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
- April 27, 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
- April 26, 2007