Ballmer's talk at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show consisted primarily of incremental announcements and positioning statements, but there were no major surprises.
The company announced on Monday that users can now upgrade their Windows Azure preview accounts to commercial subscriptions, or register for new services.
Google's OpenSocial is fueling "a major evolutionary shift" in the development space around Software as a Service (SaaS), claims Australian collaboration and development tool maker Atlassian.
Microsoft is joining the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group.
Google on Tuesday launched the Nexus One, a touch-based smartphone that boasts many of the features of Apple's iPhone as well as some new features.
After a year of dramatic growth, Google's Chrome has become the third most popular browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
Gartner on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Burton Group, a smaller but well-regarded IT research and advisory services firm, for $56 million.
JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 9.0, the latest version of the first Java IDE with integrated code refactoring.
Open source middleware provider WSO2 is billing its new Gadget Server as "a radical departure from traditional portals."
The future of the Eclipse platform will take center stage this week as open source and Java developers gather for the sixth annual EclipseCon 2009 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. where organizers will reveal the progress of Eclipse 4.0 and the Jetty Project.
Red Hat Software has released the first major update to its Eclipse-based developer toolset.
Microsoft continues to squash bugs in its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, released last week.
The !exploitable Crash Analyzer is designed to help developers classify, assess and ultimately prevent program crashes.
Updates to the Web Platform Installer and ISS 7 Web server were announced at Microsoft's MIX09 event.
Microsoft has been improving its cloud-based operating system, with plans to launch services in the fall.
In his keynote at MIX09, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie pointed to many new features for data-oriented applications in Silverlight 3.
On Thursday, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft has released the beta of its Silverlight 3 rich interactive media runtime and development environment.
Commerce Server 2009 is designed to facilitate the creation of e-commerce Web sites.
The final fixes have been completed as Microsoft rolls out it latest Web browser.