At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, held recently in Los Angeles, Chairman Bill Gates welcomed several thousand developers to the new world of XML, the data format at the heart of the company's next generation of products. The company will hand ou...

Novell has released Mono 1.1.9, an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. Mono includes an ECMA Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) runtime engine, a cross platform IKVM Java runtime engine, a C# ...

Eracent, Inc. announced the integration of its EnterpriseAM IT Asset Discovery and Inventory with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). By enhancing the capabilities of Microsoft SMS using Eracent EnterpriseAM (EAM), Eracent's solutions are able to enhance t...

BusinessEdge Solutions Inc., an East Brunswick, NJ-based industry-focused business and technology consulting firm, announced a client deployment of its Next Generation Smart Manager Platform (SMP), a field force optimization tool that leverages the latest Microsoft technology.

Robert Scoble (pictured), Microsoft technical evangelist and Blogger Extraordinary, blogged last week about Virtual Earth that it needed to be 'opened up' – to all 57,000 Microsoft employees at the very least. It seems now that the company is about to go one...

Astea International Inc., a global provider of service lifecycle management solutions (SLM), announced that a major European service integrator has selected the latest version of Astea Alliance, a rich and comprehensive Microsoft .NET based service lifecycle man...

Intensity Software announced the early availability of SQL for VSAM, a utility that converts mainframe VSAM databases to Microsoft® SQL Server. SQL for VSAM Developer Edition will be included in the KICKS for .NET v2.0 SDK (Software Developer Kit), set to be rele...

'Midmarket has been one of the hardest segments to serve for Microsoft,' said Microsoft SVP Bob Muglia, who heads up Microsoft's server division, as Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates launched yesterday's Microsoft Business Summit simultaneously with a specially tailore...

As the Microsoft Business Summit kicks off today at the Microsoft Conference Center on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Steve Ballmer – who, along with Bill Gates, will be keynoting at the event – issued one of his periodical 'executive e-mails' to Micro...

aXs Info, Inc., a leading provider of document and content management solutions for any size organization, announced the release of version 3.0 of the aXs suite of products. Using the latest technologies from Microsoft has enabled aXs Info to enhance its already ...

At Sibos 2005 Copenhagen, Microsoft announced that Banco de Espana, Spain's central bank, has chosen Microsoft to develop a system that will enable it to interface its TARGET2-related business applications with the European Central Bank's Single Shared Platform (S...

Easy Projects .NET - the latest generation web-based project management and tracking system. It is called 'Easy Projects' for a good reason - it was specifically designed to make software project management straightforward and hassle-free.

'Every one of us at Microsoft is deeply saddened by the destruction of property and personal lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,' says a statement on the Microsoft web site, 'and our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been affected...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threw a chair across the room and made exceedingly unflattering remarks about Google when one of Redmond's Distinguished Engineers told Ballmer that he was leaving to join the search company, according to court testimony related to Micr...

First came 'Pirates of Silicon Valley,' the 1999 movie directed by Martyn Burke; and now in a kindred genre the world's two most famous nerds are going to feature as characters in a new 'musical software satire' this month at the Beckett Theatre on W. 42nd St. in ...

NeoBatch combines the ability to execute mainframe JCL batch jobs on Microsoft Windows Servers with the ability to enhance them into the future by taking advantage of Microsoft Windows scripting and .NET Framework technologies.

HighJump Software, a 3M company, a global leader in providing highly adaptable, best-of-breed supply chain execution solutions, today announced the release of its next-generation platform, which is based on Microsoft .NET technology. HighJump uses this platform to...

Intensity Software, Inc. today has announced the next version of the CICS Migration product formerly known as NetKicks and released last year as KICKS for .NET. The product, now branded KICKS for .NET v2.0, will be released on September 29, 2005.

Ektron, Inc. has shipped CMS400.NET, a powerful browser based XML content management solution built on the Microsoft .NET framework. The package enables anyone to easily author and manage XML and HTML content.

Although .NET and Java share similar goals and their designs are similar in most respects, there appear to be significant differences in the likelihood of security vulnerabilities in the two platforms, according to a report by Nathanael Paul and David Evans of the...

Microsoft today announced an acquisition that it said opens up 'infinite opportunities to enable even more relationship-centric communications experiences' for Microsoft customers in the future: it has acquired Teleo, a provider of VoIP software and services tha...

Yesterday Microsoft released the test version of WinFS - well ahead of schedule. 'Long term, we believe apps that contain their own data silos will be retooled for WinFS,' said Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft.

'Anyone that has played with custom actions will know that there are many limitations when trying to work with simple constructs such as an if-else condition,' says Sinan Karaca, President of InstallAware Software Corporation. 'InstallAware makes MSI scripting work as you wish it did.'

ILOG. a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, announced ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.0, the industry's first Gantt chart graphics tool for the .NET environment with a customizable pre-built project management capability.

SurfControl. a world leader in multi-layered threat protection for enterprises, today announced that Virtua Health is using SurfControl Web Filter for Microsoft ISA Server and SurfControl's Adaptive Threat IntelligenceSM service to safeguard its people and IT sy...

HostMySite.com has announced that it is offering a free beta hosting trial for the next version of ASP.NET 2.0. Loaded with tools to develop dynamic web applications quickly, this new version will include an improved programming model and infrastructure to help ...

The Microsoft collaboration vision is to provide software and services to deliver pervasive capabilities to help enable people to work together more effectively, the company says. Now the company says it is extending that vision into rich, real-time collaboration ...

I always thought that non-initialized variable declarations were fine in .NET, but the V2 compiler is forcing me to change my mind. Programming theory suggests that initialized variable declaration is a good practice and this was impressed upon me from my C++ days...

Recently, Calvin wrote an editorial titled 'C#: Is the Party Over?'. After reading this, I am shocked! It is full of inaccurate statements about .NET and C#. It is also indicative of someone who is just ignorantly bashing the enemy - like Democrats and Republican...

The Windward Reports design platform can be called by Java or .NET programs, either directly or in a client-server configuration. It includes an add-on to Microsoft Word called AutoTag that simplifies data layout and data source mapping.

'We're committed to making Microsoft BizTalk Server the most complete offering for our customers. Part of that commitment is providing adapters for the most commonly used line-of-business applications and technologies,' said Microsoft's Ted Kummert. 'Our existin...

Hey Calvin, I read your 'Core and Internals Viewpoint' (C#: Is The Party Over?) the other day, in the print edition of the August 2005 JDJ. There are a couple of inaccuracies in the article maybe worth correcting or clarifying.

Microsoft, as part of its commitment to making BizTalk Server the most complete offering for its customers, has increased the number of adapters it provides for the most commonly used line-of-business applications and technologies - by buying eight .NET-based ap...

A small Redmond, WA company with the website domain www.vista.com says it might sue Microsoft over use of the name Vista in the new version of Windows OS due next year. Is this for real?

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will acquire FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a leading provider of managed services that address corporate e-mail security, compliance and availability requirements.

Microsoft yesterday announced revenue of $10.16 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, a 9% increase over the results in the same period of the prior year. Operating income for the fourth quarter was $2.99 billion, compared to $3.13 billion in the prior year.

Microsoft 'has taken over Atlanta' for a major sales meeting called MGB 2005 with a theme of 'Going Beyond.' This news comes in the wake of the emergence of the name Microsoft 'Windows Vista' as the official name of the long-awaited Longhorn release. Longhorn, or ...

Magenic - a Microsoft technology consulting firm that provides services spanning the entire lifecycle of software applications - won Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Award for Technical Innovation in Custom Development Solutions. Magenic bested five other finalists i...

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 has a bug in its kernel that could let attackers bring down the machine with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, vulnerability tracker Secunia said on Friday. Microsoft's spokesman said, 'Microsoft is currently investigating public reports o...

Microsoft announced a deal with Marvel Enterprises to develop an advanced online game based on Marvel's well-known cast of comic book characters. This will expand the video game wars to new fronts. The deal extends Microsoft's competition with Sony, its prime vi...