Part way into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
A recent survey of 400 U.S.-based application developers and programmers showed that while those who build Web applications are more concerned about security than ever before, corporate resources and processes that increase application security aren’t as forthcoming.
Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, is retiring when Windows Vista finally ships to customers. In the meantime, he's flogging Vista to one of the operating system's key constituencies: third-party developers.
Developers may sleep better knowing there’s a new security blanket out there that promises to protect their builds from piracy and reverse engineering. And the product–applied post production–requires no source code modification.
Security solutions are only as efficient as the data they provide. One software company says when it comes to malware, they have a product that separates the wheat from the chaff, advising enterprises which files should and shouldn’t be on their systems.
Business integration software maker webMethods has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Infravio, a maker of Web services registry and governance solutions, the company disclosed last week.
The latest release of a Complex Event Processing solution lets developers take Web services to new heights, with expeditious processing and publishing functions for XML data streams.
More beta testers are welcome to take the final pre-release version of Windows Vista, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), for a test drive, the Redmond software maker announced on Friday.
Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2005 Tools Second Edition Beta for the 2007 Microsoft Office System on Thursday. The timing of the release coincides with the Office 2007 Beta 2 technical refresh, which was also announced last week.
Open source platforms offer flexibility and faster time to production if your team is adept at hand coding and working with command lines. LogicBlaze, sponsors of an open source SOA distribution, released an Eclipse-based dev environment last week designed to do some of the heavy lifting for you.
Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions wised up its mobile dev platform by extending its support to include Microsoft Smartphone. Now users can develop Web-based apps for both Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC platforms.
A new program launched this week places SQL under the limelight, as one company looks to laud and standardize the programming language for data queries and analysis. And build a developer community in the process.
Borland Software Corporation on Friday announced a major upgrade of its Together 2006 for Eclipse, an enterprise-modeling platform designed to support architects, Java and C++ developers, Unified Modeling Language (UML) designers, business process analysts, and data modelers.
Developers building Eclipse-based apps will have sturdier shoulders to lean on later this year. At EclipseWorld, IBM announced new software that’ll support the building of open source IDEs.
Microsoft has released the second beta of its Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1. Beta 2 includes the promised support for AMD's hardware-assisted virtualization technology (AMD-V).
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006.
The Eclipse Foundation kicks off its EclipseWorld Enterprise Developer Conference in Boston this week with some hot survey numbers: Sixty percent of 384 respondents queried for Evans Data's 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise Survey say they're using the open source, Java-based platform as their primary IDE.
The building blocks for speedy biz app development just got more inclusive. A tool that lets .NET developers envision their apps during the programming process, now integrates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
According to the Yankee Group, 60 percent of businesses cling to legacy software for four to six years. Research fellow Laura DiDio says that’s because enterprises are concerned with the cost of migration. But should they be?
Deliberate attacks on Web services is one obvious risk enterprises take when building such apps, and sloppy data can wreak just as much havoc. But one expert says XML security is where it’s at for adopters of service-oriented architectures (SOA).