Developers coding to Redmond's OSes should use DEP security process, blogger says.
DBMS company gets revenue boost, but still owns just a small percentage of the market.
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentives to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.
Microsoft Update will automatically change settings next month for Office 2003.
The Visual Studio 2008 add-on has new features for creating IIS applications.
Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.
Combined technologies will support server consolidation and build testing for developers.
The 2Q report indicated record revenues of $16.4 billion.
Timeline will slip to third quarter, according to blogger.
A rumor is spreading across the Web that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) may be scheduled to arrive on Feb. 15.
Vista SP1 may arrive next month, plus additional news from Redmond.
Yesterday, Microsoft posted the final version of the .NET Framework 3.5 to its download site, as well as several updates to other .NET Framework versions.
System builders can now get a piece of the $10 million program.
Redmond is also buying a desktop virtualization vendor.
Vista's successor may become available sooner than anticipated.
Consumer survey gives high marks to Apple's new OS.
Efforts meant to help compete against VMware.
The library add-on helps support Microsoft Office 2007-type projects.
Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.