Microsoft issued an Advance Bulletin today stating it will release six fixes for various flaws next Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" update. According to the notice, one of the fixes will be for a "critical" flaw in Visual Studio. The other five will relate to Windows, with the highest rating of at least one of the Windows' patches being critical.
Microsoft is shipping the first CTP of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.
Microsoft is releasing several Web designer tools, along with the first CTP of a Windows Presentation Foundation cross-platfrom browser plug-in.
IBM's Rational division is releasing tools and technologies to round out its Rational Software Delivery Platform. In June, the company launched version 7.0 of the platform's team-based products. Today's release is comprised of desktop products aimed at individual developers, architects, and testers.
A recent study found that service-oriented architecture projects are increasingly becoming high-level initiatives, instead of department-level or pilot projects.
A new study suggests SOA efforts aren’t always accompanied by quality testing, leading to dissatisfaction with the results.
Intalio is donating its Tempo project to the Eclipse Foundation. Tempo is the first open-source workflow framework to support IBM and SAP's BPEL4People model. Available under the Eclipse Public License, the framework will become part of the foundation's SOA Tools Platform project.
While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.
Calling it the biggest launch in the company's history, Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop applications suite at the Nasdaq market site in New York.
Microsoft kicked off its fourth Strategic Architect Forum -- a gathering of 250 of the most influential software architects among the largest of its worldwide customers -- on the company’s sprawling Redmond campus on Wednesday.
Novell announced plans this week to extend its ZENworks line of systems management solutions, the first fruits of the company’s desktop-to-data-center management initiative.
While Microsoft will officially deliver the shipping versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to business customers on Thursday, many if not most of those same customers will wait for up to a year and a half before deploying the new operating system.
Microsoft has announced it will license third-party developers to build applications that have the look and feel of Office 2007 on a royalty-free basis.
Microsoft is shipping the first release candidate or RC of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003, with final availability scheduled for the first quarter of 2007.
Borland Software Corp. has announced plans to split off its developer tools group as a wholly owned subsidiary.
The digital ink is hardly dry on Microsoft's peace agreement with Novell, but the outlines of the deal are already starting to blur.
Enterprise Linux provider Red Hat is diving deeper into service-oriented architecture with this week's announcement of an enterprise service bus, from its JBoss division.
Understanding which transactions and services can benefit from a service-oriented architecture is half the battle. A new tool from NetManage, Inc. is designed to help companies do just that.
InstallAware Software has just begun shipping a free update for its namesake installation tool that adds support for deploying the just-released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.