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Microsoft strikes back at open source critics

News Microsoft said, however, its new interoperability principles operate across its high-volume products: Windows Vista (including the .Net Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint...

Tags: microsoft, open source, .net framework, volume

[18 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News Newly enhanced with a software development kit for in-stream advertising, Microsoft's Silverlight 2 programming model is designed for developing and distributing rich internet applications that use graphics, animations or video within the .Net...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

Steve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?

News At the Mix '08 show in Las Vegas, Microsoft corporate VP .NET developer platform, Scott Guthrie, alluded to support for Apple's iPhone, saying Microsoft wants Silverlight running on "anything that has an SDK [software development kit]".

Tags: flash, steve jobs, iphone, silverlight

[06 Mar 2008]

Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia

News The strategy, which Microsoft detailed at last year's Mix conference, hinges on creating tools that let traditional Microsoft developers write Silverlight web applications with familiar products like Visual Studio and ASP.Net.

Tags: nokia, adobe, silverlight, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue

News Microsoft said the pledge will ultimately extend to Windows Vista, the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft has announced changes in its business...

Tags: microsoft, sue, open source, licence

[22 Feb 2008]

Microsoft blogger spills beans on search tweaks

News Microsoft has since taken down the blog but Liveside.net managed to capture the images and details Hussein provided. A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event where the company was...

Tags: windows, search, microsoft

[24 Sep 2007]

Ballmer drops services hints

News Later this year Microsoft will deliver the first version of a set of developer tools to build on top of Microsoft's Windows Live effort, Ballmer said, and noted that the tools will be based on .NET. Microsoft has its head in the internet cloud.

Tags: cloud, services, ballmer, microsoft

[11 Jul 2007]

Microsoft to patch critical trio

News The critical holes, all of which could allow a hacker to execute code remotely on a target system, affect Window 2000 SP4, Excel 2000, and the .NET Framework, which most Windows users will have installed, according to a Microsoft security bulletin.

Tags: flaw, hole, patch tuesday, patch

[09 Jul 2007]

Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills

News Some of the skills Betfair is tapping into in Romania include Microsoft .Net and SQL, Java and specialist areas such as mobile driver development. Online betting and gaming company Betfair has set up an offshore software development centre in...

Tags: romania, betfair

[28 Jun 2007]

Novell to spill beans on Microsoft patent pact

News One developer who's offended is Jonathan Corbet, a Linux kernel programmer and executive editor of LWN.net. Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that had been delayed by a stock option...

Tags: patents, pact, patent, microsoft

[24 May 2007]

Microsoft to expand document formats

News The converters, to be available on open source project hosting site SourceForge.net, let people open and save documents in either the Ecma Open XML formats or ODF. Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats.

Tags: china, odf, open source, file

[21 May 2007]

RIM plugging into your business' PBX

News Also at WES, RIM announced a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, letting developers use the .NET programming environment to create applications for BlackBerrys. Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive at RIM, said: "This new developer...

Tags: blackberry, rim

[10 May 2007]

Canonical looking to beta Microsoft

News That hosting foundation makes Launchpad more like VA Software's Sourceforge.net site, which hosts thousands of open source projects. Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical has launched a beta version of its Launchpad service, part of an effort to make open...

Tags: open source, microsoft, canonical

[10 Apr 2007]

Web 2.0 sends web developer pay skyrocketing

News It said annual salaries for IT professionals skilled in key web technologies (Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, Microsoft .Net and BEA Weblogic Server) have risen by an average of 27 per cent over the past year.

Tags: web 2.0

[15 Dec 2006]

Microsoft 'slapped' by foul-mouthed DNS listing

News Comments levelled at Redmond, which all show up as convoluted extraneous domains, include slurs along the lines of microsoft.com.will.be.beaten.with.my.spanner.net and microsoft.com.is.a.steaming.heap.of.fucking-bullshit.net as well as the...

Tags: verisign, microsoft

[15 Nov 2006]

Microsoft to arm developers with Vista toolkits

News Microsoft is also scheduled to release the second beta to its web development tool kit, called ASP.NET Ajax and code-named Atlas. One announcement will be for .NET Framework 3.0, the software "plumbing" needed to run and build Windows Vista...

Tags: vista, developers, microsoft

[07 Nov 2006]

Microsoft puts XP update on back burner

News The change was noted earlier by Microsoft enthusiast site Neowin.net. While Windows Vista is nearing completion, Microsoft has delayed the next service pack update for its predecessor, Windows XP. This week, Microsoft updated its lifecycle website...

Tags: microsoft, vista, xp, windows xp

[20 Oct 2006]

Word to get 'save as OpenDocument' add-on

News Microsoft does not have any engineers involved in the Open XML Translator project, which is hosted on SourceForge.net. Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format.

Tags: microsoft, opendocument, word

[16 Oct 2006]

Microsoft tees up patches for Office, Windows

News The company also plans to send out a security bulletin for Microsoft .NET that will be tagged moderate, it said. Microsoft plans to issue nearly a dozen security patches on Tuesday, including critical fixes for Office and Windows.

Tags: microsoft, patch, microsoft windows, office

[06 Oct 2006]

Redmond refreshes Longhorn Server build

News Other Microsoft releases in recent days include the Visual Studio extensions for .NET 3.0 RC1, IronPython 1.0 and a PDF plug-in for Office 2007. Microsoft has released a refresh to Longhorn Server Beta 2, which appeared in May, offering bugfixes...

Tags: longhorn server, microsoft

[14 Sep 2006]

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