Redmond's security team is undergoing a revamp with the announcement that Andrew Cushman, director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, will be stepping down to be replaced by group manager Mike Reavey.
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
A tool to help add Microsoft solutions for Web application development is publicly available.
Many open source software developers seem to be choosing the Internet cloud as a point of distribution.
Open source tool enables researchers to pinpoint a needling problem in a haystack of processors.
Bowling Green State University's Agile Software Factory gives students hands-on agile experience and community organizations free apps.
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
Offers centralized repository of publicly available scientific, demographic and medical data that can be integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.
Microsoft's practice of bundling its browser with Windows has gained the scrutiny of a European regulatory body.
SpringSource and Adobe Systems make it easier for Java jocks to develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) that use Flex.
Microsoft updated its file synchronization platform for Windows Live, fixing some bugs in the beta.
There's nothing like a government mandate to speed up the adoption of a standard. The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a case in point.
Datacenter managers in both the public and private sectors report being caught between increasing demands for performance and shrinking budgets, according to a Symantec study.
Microsoft advises applying a patch issued in October.
The Christmas announcement that the Ruby on Rails project would be merging its efforts with the rival Merb framework in the development of Rails 3 was good news and not-so-good. For Ruby developers worried about a community fracture, it was probably good news; for those who liked the idea of choice among Ruby frameworks, maybe not so much.
Merged group announces that beta of Rails 3 will debut in May.
When the going gets tough, it's the jobs that get going -- increasingly overseas.
Microsoft's January security update contains one patch to stave off potential remote code execution attacks.
A government-led coalition identified common errors in software development with an eye toward improving security.
Developers using the Visual Studio 2008 IDE have some additional tools to deploy SharePoint projects.