The company also rolled out a beta of a new hosted mashup service.
Beta of hosted relational database management system is planned to start in March.
Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.
New products and services aim to help organizations deal with complexities of service-oriented architectures.
The deal opens the way for Trolltech's cross-platform Qt app framework to get a wider foothold across desktop and mobile devices.
Company added push server technology to support its dynamic Web-based e-mail and collaboration software.
An open source governance solution for service-oriented architectures was released by the company, along with other SOA products.
Company unveiled its virtualization management beta, which aims to ease the task of IT administrators who track software changes across the enterprise.
IT hosting company responds to customer demand for virtual servers.
Company's server bug suggests that end users of hosted services may need an alternative data backup plan.
Company adds additional scripting language capability to open source SOA platform.
Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
Last month, Redmond released an early build of "Volta," a set of tools for building Web apps that run across multiple tiers.
Microsoft today followed up on its earlier promise to start releasing the .NET framework library source code for .NET 3.5.
Company rolls out new server collaboration product and role-based test solutions for SOAs.