Calling it the biggest launch in the company's history, Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop applications suite at the Nasdaq market site in New York.
Microsoft has announced it will license third-party developers to build applications that have the look and feel of Office 2007 on a royalty-free basis.
Mono brings .NET execution to Linux and other platforms.
InstallAware Software has just begun shipping a free update for its namesake installation tool that adds support for deploying the just-released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.
Tired of waiting for Windows Vista? Got an MSDN Premium subscription? Tomorrow, the final code will be available for download.
Microsoft made several milestone announcements regarding its database products Wednesday at its SQL PASS conference in Seattle.
Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.
Microsoft operating systems have a reputation for providing sophistication, ease of use, and reliability. Get acquainted with Windows Vista and see why it will continue this trend.
SPI Dynamics is collaborating with Microsoft to provide security tools for applications built using ASP.NET AJAX (code-named "Atlas"). When it is released on December 1, DevInspect 3.0 will become one of the first dev tools to analyze and remediate vulnerabilities in Atlas-based applications.
Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.
Microsoft announced this week it is adding an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) to the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas."
Microsoft announced this week it is nearing release of a new version of its customer relationship management software -- Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista.
The virtualization marketplace heated up this week with announcements from both Microsoft and chief competitor VMware. Both announcements came at VMware's VMworld conference in Los Angeles.
Microsoft announced it released Windows Vista to manufacturing on Wednesday, putting it on schedule to ship to volume customers by November 30, and confirmed that Vista will go to consumers on January 30, 2007.
Analysis: Once bitter rivals now working on a peaceful relationship in business and desktop realms.
Microsoft will be announcing that the volume license availability of Windows Vista on Nov. 30, along with availability of Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007, a company spokesperson has confirmed.
With the corporate delivery of Windows Vista imminent, Microsoft is also rolling out a new volume licensing scheme for business customers.
Long-time stalwart of Microsoft's database business, Paul Flessner, will step down as senior vice president of the Data Storage and Platform Division as of Jan. 1, the company confirmed this week.
Microsoft and Zend Technologies are joining forces to improve the performance of PHP-based applications running on Windows Server 2003, the two companies disclosed on Tuesday. The Redmond software giant and the Cupertino, Calif. provider of products and services for the open-source PHP scripting language are embarking on this technical collaboration "to provide customers with richer functionality and better integration" of PHP on Windows.