The integrated development environment makes coding easy but it lacks .NET support.
The international standard for document formats, based on Microsoft's OOXML, has been released.
Microsoft wants to get technical-community feedback before releasing its latest Web browser next year.
Microsoft and Novell marked the two-year anniversary of their controversial Linux patent agreement.
Redmond is contesting claims made by WebXchange after it sued three companies over alleged patent violations.
Exec VP of software leaves the company.
Redmond updated some services and released a beta of a search customization tool for Web site developers.
Treadwell illuminates Microsoft's services platform.
The Eclipse Foundation's archiving process for the Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) project has already started.
VMware plans to target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.
The company has outlined security best practices in tools and models for application developers.
The latest Windows Server technology from Microsoft expands logical processor support for mission-critical enterprise computing.
Providing the services layer will drive SOA adoption, XAware argues.
The technology helps throttle bandwidth in streaming media, with a beta release expected early next year.
Group seeks better interoperability and conformance for office-suite XML document format standard.
An online startup company migrated some of its operations into the cloud by using Microsoft Windows Azure services.
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is out for private beta testing, but Microsoft is planning some new capabilities.
The company will add its efforts toward developing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol open standard.
The latest version of Visual Studio features help for developers with parallel computing apps.