Microsoft's strategy for keeping recent builds of its latest operating system tightly under wraps sprang a few holes last week.
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
Microsoft is promoting the use of software-based "information cards" to reduce identity theft.
New Security Development Lifecycle tools and services will be available in November.
Testing tools vendor Ranorex's new automated application-testing solution supports C#, VB.NET, Python and C++ languages.
BusinessWeek's Web site was hit at the back end through SQL injection.
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Intel and Microsoft technologies are integrated in the new high-performance computing machine.
A "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8 sends information to Microsoft, but it's not retained, Redmond contends.
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The companies plan to foster an interoperability spec for ECM systems through OASIS.
The newly launched Web browser uses Microsoft's Windows Template Library, and other open source code.
Internet Explorer's usability has improved with the latest beta version.
Sun launches free hypervisor, new version of Ops Center and Microsoft partnership.
Redmond sees modeling as a key part of its .NET Framework and is now working with Object Management Group on standards efforts.
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release contains four critical security fixes.
Microsoft described rollout plans for BizTalk, which can be used to enable service-oriented architectures.
City's top IT official says that its integrating more .NET development but is still looking toward open source.
New York City is stepping up its .NET development efforts, but at the same time it is moving aggressively to expand use of open source technology, according to the city's top IT official.
Paul Cosgrave, commissioner of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), talks about the city's approach to software development in this extended Q&A.