For IT shops that do not plan to immediately deploy Windows Vista or who have a lot of legacy XP machines, the wait for XP Service Pack 3 just got a bit longer.
Oracle this week released a free dev tool for its Fusion middleware. The new productivity tool called Oracle Developer Depot provides access to a library of reusable and sample code for rapid development of Java app prototypes.
Microsoft has just added its Virtual Hard Disk Image Format specification to the list of technologies available for free and without a license under its Open Specification Promise (OSP). Introduced last month, the OSP is Microsoft's "irrevocable promise not to assert" its patent claims on 35 Web services-related specifications.
Technologies for software localization—the process of translating a UI from one language to another and adapting it to foreign cultural references—have been around for about 15 years, but the modern global marketplace has spawned a new generation of specialized localization tools.
While the big news is that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP on Wednesday, IE's main browser competitor hit a major milestone of its own just two days before.
Microsoft last week said it is cooperating with anti-virus and security providers so that they can provide the same protection level as its own products, including OneCare Live. At least one big Microsoft partner and competitor, however, disputes those statements.
In the countdown to Vista's release, there have been no reports of dumpster diving by enterprising reporters, but the largest circulation Seattle paper says it has seen a sign that points to the end of testing on Oct. 25th.
BEA Systems calls it the knowledge-worker gap: that rift between the ad hoc, spontaneous collaboration in which most of these kinds of workers regularly engage and the technologies that support those activities.
Microsoft's release of its Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack for Supply Chain Management is the first in a series of technical resources. OBAs are designed to help guide the development of what Redmond calls "a new breed of applications" that use Office 2007 as a platform.
Call them the M & Ms -- Microsoft and Mozilla, that is. Both are readying major new versions of their browsers --Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 -- for release in the next few weeks.
More than 13 months after Hurricane Katrina came ashore, Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is moving three of its annual conferences, including two of its largest shows, out of New Orleans -- at least temporarily.
One of the founders of the Open AJAX Alliance has some advice for developers faced with the prospect of building applications in a world increasingly influenced by the advent of Web 2.0: focus on the business value.
Salesforce.com is set to preview a new programming language and platform at its annual Dreamforce 06 Conference, underway this week in San Francisco (Oct 9-11).
Software production management provider Electric Cloud has rounded out its suite of products with ElectricCommander, an enterprise-class solution that automates the build, package, test and deploy stages of software development.
Microsoft will be releasing a patch for the .NET Framework on Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update.
As expected, Microsoft released what it terms Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 on Friday. The move was widely predicted after at least two Microsoft-focused Web sites jumped the gun and released information and links pointing to the download earlier in the week.
With Windows Vista's promised ship date to corporate customers less than two months away, the rumor mill has been going wild with reports of phantom release candidate sightings. The latest is that Microsoft may release a new test build on Friday.
VMware is shipping the latest iteration of its infrastructure bundle this week, as well as the beta of a third-generation virtual machine conversion utility.
Borland says it is readying a new application lifecycle quality management (LQM) solution that is based on its existing Caliber products as well as two sets of products it recently acquired.
Dallas-based iTKO is releasing an upgrade to its SOA testing platform this week. The LISA 3.5 Complete SOA Test Platform is a Java-based toolset designed to automate testing without requiring any coding.