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Private Beta Begins for Voice Server 2007

Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.

Next Rev of Firefox Already in Alpha

Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.

Microsoft Releases 7 Patches for Windows, IE, Visual Studio Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.

Seapine Upgrades Testing and Configuration Tools

Seapine Software is releasing new versions of its ALM products TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM 5. The company is also launching TestTrack TCM, a new tool for test case planning and tracking that integrates with TestTrack Pro.

Sun Releases Java Platform Standard Edition 6

Java SE 6 pulls together a host of new features for Web services, dynamic language support, diagnostics, and desktop applications

Too Much Information? Eclipse UI Tool Focuses on Tasks

The Eclipse Foundation today released a new "task-focused" user interface designed to reduce information overload among developers working in integrated development environments.

Critical Fixes for Windows, Visual Studio Coming Next Week

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 Ships CTP of Office BI Server

Microsoft is shipping the first CTP of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.

Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Expression Tools

Microsoft is releasing several Web designer tools, along with the first CTP of a Windows Presentation Foundation cross-platfrom browser plug-in.

IBM Rational Delivers Desktop Tools for 7.0 Dev Platform

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.

SOA taking hold at the top?

A recent study found that service-oriented architecture projects are increasingly becoming high-level initiatives, instead of department-level or pilot projects.

Study: SOA efforts lacking quality control

A new study suggests SOA efforts aren’t always accompanied by quality testing, leading to dissatisfaction with the results.

Intalio Donates Workflow Framework to Eclipse

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.

Third Parties Support Vista Launch

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.

Vista Sets Sail Alongside New Office, Exchange

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 Hosts Strategic Architect Forum

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's Virtualization Management Move

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.

Vista Sales To Take Off...Slowly

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 Grants Royalty-Free License for Office UI

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 Ships Release Candidate for Windows Server 2003 SP2

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.