Windows XP, which will no longer be sold after June 30, will not get a reprieve despite Ballmer's quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback.
Microsoft had flat revenue results as reflected in its third-quarter 2008 report.
However, a Yahoo deal is still the preferred way to support Microsoft's search ad strategy.
Report, covering late 2007, found a 300 percent increase in Trojan bugs.
Chinese companies agree to buy support for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise via licensing issued by Microsoft.
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
Open source software company Appcelerator recently updated its rich Internet application development platform so that it's compatible with Google's new App Engine platform.
Earlier this month Curl, developers of the Curl development platform for RIA applications, announced that the company has joined the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation, developers on the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).
Sun Microsystems and the Java Card Forum have released version 3.0 of the Java Card smartcard specification.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solution provider IONA recently announced that its Artix product line will offer interoperability for Microsoft technologies in SOA projects.
Howard A. Schmidt has used technology to thwart crime since his early career
as a policeman and pioneer in computer forensics.
The last planned service pack to Windows XP is out.
Company is moving its Curl dev tools to the Eclipse platform.
Developers can use the .NET Framework and integrate applications in Java or CORBA environments.
Platform adds new tools to support the application development needs of large organizations.
Organization expands into another segment of the development community.
RFI seeks advice on using SOA without disrupting mission-critical operations.
Hosted rich Internet application development platform lets developers tap into Google App Engine.
New version enables database support for Web applications.
The bug reportedly allows authenticated users to elevate privileges on networks using some Windows operating systems.