Upgrades include support for HL7 standard and MySQL Server.
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 also at risk.
Service pack expected early next year for the OS.
Developer portal and tools released as part of unified communications efforts.
Small and medium businesses have resource constraints, making it not so easy to opt for open source solutions.
Service pack will be released about a year after the server first shipped.
Microsoft's new Web animation tool for nondevelopers is easy to use, and a potential hook into the Silverlight platform.
Tami Reller, a Microsoft Business Solutions veteran, has a new job as CFO of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division.
Two of the company's enterprise lifecycle management products now use the same modeling environment, allowing improved team collaboration.
The new license applies open source principles to network-run software.
QuickTime and WPAD flaws announced over holiday weekend.
Solution aimed at supporting mission-critical data in the enterprise.
WebSphere Portal will be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.
Redmond makes way for virtualization competitors.
Product offers ease-of-use to those new to object-oriented databases.
.NET Framework 3.5 also released.
The standards group formed a technical committee to foster the Service Data Objects specification, an approach for handling data in service-oriented architectures.
Reed Sturtevant reunited with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect.
Corporations are beginning to warm up, though.
Number of unprotected SQL servers continues to rise.