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.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That's the question Premkuma Devanbu, professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis is hoping to answer. Devanbu and his team have won a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a three-year study examining how open source software is built.
ComponentOne has just released a new version of its Studio Enterprise toolset for Windows, Web, and mobile application development. Among the new components in this release (v3) is the WebSplitter for ASP.NET, which the company is billing as the first-ever server-side Atlas control.
Microsoft announced the broad public release of a beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework last week at the Embedded Systems Conference being held in Boston.
Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
For SharePoint developers, effective offline synchronization has emerged as a veritable Holy Grail. The workforce today is mobile, and mobile workers need to be able to view and modify team spaces offline, and then sync them with the corporate server. Almost overnight, offline synchronization has become a must-have, add-on capability among SharePoint users.