Developers coding to Redmond's OSes should use DEP security process, blogger says.
Company launches development tool that facilitates collaboration on software bugs, checking code before it is compiled.
Products for data centers gain U.S. market foothold with distribution deal.
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.
Identity theft is seen as a possibility as data go missing.
Microsoft Update will automatically change settings next month for Office 2003.
The Visual Studio 2008 add-on has new features for creating IIS applications.
Hosted app provider describes plans after server failure.
The company also rolled out a beta of a new hosted mashup service.
Beta of hosted relational database management system is planned to start in March.
Social networking and consumer apps may play havoc with enterprise IT security.
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 two companies are integrating their service-oriented architecture and decision management solutions.
New products and services aim to help organizations deal with complexities of service-oriented architectures.
The deal opens the way for Trolltech's cross-platform Qt app framework to get a wider foothold across desktop and mobile devices.
The 2Q report indicated record revenues of $16.4 billion.
Company added push server technology to support its dynamic Web-based e-mail and collaboration software.