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.
Tired of waiting for Windows Vista? Got an MSDN Premium subscription? Tomorrow, the final code will be available for download.
Microsoft made several milestone announcements regarding its database products Wednesday at its SQL PASS conference in Seattle.
As expected, Microsoft today issued six patches for a variety of security issues,including an XML vulnerability considered to be zero day.
Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.
Sun Microsystems announced today that it has begun the process of releasing its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and a buildable implementation of its Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) as free software under the open-source GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
SPI Dynamics is collaborating with Microsoft to provide security tools for applications built using ASP.NET AJAX (code-named "Atlas"). When it is released on December 1, DevInspect 3.0 will become one of the first dev tools to analyze and remediate vulnerabilities in Atlas-based applications.
Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.
Microsoft announced this week it is adding an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) to the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas."