'Our partners are coming to us and asking for our help,' according Bonnie MacNaughton, senior attorney at Microsoft, as the company today announced it was filing lawsuits against eight companies who allegedly infringed on Microsoft copyrights and trademarks. In on...

Microsoft will pay Gateway $150 million over four years to settle anti-trust claims stemming from the U.S. Department of Justice suit against Redmond in the 1990s. Gateway's charges were based on the company paying more for Microsoft licensing than many other companies.

A new strategic partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder is designed to bolster the collection of 'out-of-the box' content preinstalled with Logidex, to generate a faster return on investment for LogicLibrary customers while improving the market reach of ...

A comprehensive .NET strategy by the consultancy Lab49 has enabled a major flower grower, Falcon Farms, to deliver its product more quickly and efficiently. The solution entails a distributed system of Web services, databases, integration adapters, and Microsoft ASP.NET Web sites.

Demand from Visual Basic users has been so overwhelming that REAL Software has extended free offering until April 15, 2005.

Vista Software today announced a free 2.0.14 update to their widely used VistaDB embedded database engine for Microsoft .NET.

Compuware QACenter Enterprise and Professional Edition expand functional testing and load testing capabilities.

In an effort to attract more developers, Microsoft is offering Visual Studio 2005 for less, and has made licensing the product and distributing it through its MSDN subscriptions, easier.

In preparation for Visual Studio 2005, expected in the second half of calendar year 2005, Microsoft yesterday detailed pricing and licensing terms for Visual Studio 2005 as well as the simplification of its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscriptions.

Loved the article! I'm a fellow Chicagoan (former city gal, now in the suburbs) who also works at home. I've been working from home for over five years now (ever since CA bought PLATINUM and I just couldn't work for CA.) I've been both a consultant and an employ...

Real Software releases product upgrade and makes public results of a pole it conducted, showing that customers are using REALbasic to port from a number of different platforms.

The Burst.com lawsuit against Microsoft, originally filed in June of 2002, asserting patent, trade secret and antitrust claims, has been settled. Microsoft will pay $60 million to Burst for the settlement of all claims and for a non-exclusive license (without sub-...

Microsoft is going to be acquiring Groove Networks Inc, an acquisition that allows Redmond to bring Ray Ozzie, Groove's founder and the creator of IBM Corp's Lotus Notes, into its senior leadership team. Ozzie will become one of Microsoft's three CTOs.

Latest edition of Help Publisher for Visual Studio 2003 transforms VS .NET into help authoring tool.

'Over the past 15 years or so, much has been written about the demise of the mainframe,' Mark Cresswell, CEO of NEON Systems, told SYS-CON.TV (http://sys-con.tv), in an exclusive interview.

A petition has been posted calling for Microsoft to continue supporting Visual Basic. The petition is critical of Microsoft's move to Visual Basic .NET.

'Over the past 15 years or so, much has been written about the demise of the mainframe,' Mark Cresswell, CEO of NEON Systems, told SYS-CON.TV (http://sys-con.tv), in an exclusive interview yesterday. 'But for certain classes of organizations - particularly the lar...

Codejock Software yesterday announced the release of Xtreme Toolkit Professional Edition v9.60 for Visual Studio .NET, providing what it calls 'the most comprehensive set of fully customizable user interface components for the development of Microsoft style applications in .NET.'

BPM Suite is built on a .NET, service oriented architecture and puts the power of process design, execution and refinement into the hands of the business user or process owner.

Bill Gates will tomorrow become an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Although British monarchs have been creating knights for hundreds of years, this particular honor dates back to only 1917 and is being given 'in recogni...

Oracle showed off a test version of a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 that allows developers using the Microsoft Corp. tools to build applications that can run on the Oracle 10g database.

InRule, a BRE (Business Rules Engine) vendor, and Bluespring, a BPM (Business Process Management) company announced a partnership to address growing demand for integrated BPM and business rules engines (BRE).

Wyndham Jade's new ONEsystem+ is a Web-based system that helps organizers of large events centralize a number of common travel activities online.

Jeffrey Chapinsky writes: The most important thing mentioned is postulates 1-3, which I think is really only one. Once these off-shore projects are done and put into production there will always be the need for a local serviceperson type of trade. The analogy here...

Tim Kinslow, practice manager for Web-based solutions at Trigent, will present 'Migrating ASP to ASP.NET' on Thursday, February 17 at 9 a.m. In this presentation, Kinslow will address how to choose a migration strategy that matches your business objectives and h...

ObjectStore, a leader in products for real-time data services, and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS),has announced that Reuters Group (Nasdaq: RTRSY), the global information company, relied on high-performance data access from ...

Seapine Software, a leading provider of adaptable application lifecycle management (AALM) solutions, has announced the immediate availability of QA Wizard 3.0 for automated functional testing of Windows, Web, and Java applications. New features include Microsoft...

Ektron Inc., an innovator in Web content management and authoring software, announced it's .NET content management solution has been named by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a finalist for the 2005 Codie Awards in the Best Content Management category.

ComponentOne has released Studio Enterprise 2005 v1. The release contains over 45 updates to .NET and ASP.NET tools and provides access to Whidbey Alpha and Beta components.

HP will use Keynote's LoadPro in its newly announced Application Readiness Program.

Business Objects will provide Southwest with a comprehensive integrated platform that delivers very strong capabilities in reporting, analysis, web-based BI, and performance management. Business Objects will enable Southwest to disseminate information corporate-wi...

I was a dBASE II programmer, then dBASE III, then Clipper (by Nantucket), and then I built an interface between an existing Foxpro application and an Electronic Data Interchange translator. Still, I missed dBASE II. I missed being able to get good results QUICKLY.

Kinook Software's build management solution is designed to automate a number of tasks, so developers can once again focus on creating fun and exciting applications.

Crystal Reports will now be integrated into Borland's Delphi 2005, the latest version of Borland's RAD environment for Windows and .NET applications.

Microsoft is offering Visual Studio .NET customers a free DVD containing a number of products from Visual Studio Industry Partner Program members. The effort is designed to further integrate the VS.NET IDE.

.NET continues to be employed by government agencies in the creation of Internet-based services that give the public access to information.

One glaring omission I noticed in your editorial is that the internet stock bubble you were riding to gain a ridiculous pay increase of 283% over four years happened on Clinton's watch. It also happens that the bubble burst in '99, before Bush took office, also on Clinton's watch.

UK-based BT Group is working with Microsoft to develop a number of services that target the UK's SMB market. BT selected Microsoft in favor of its current middleware provider, BEA Systems.

FastNET.ASP is a new development tool for .NET that can reportedly enable the creation of business applications in a quarter of the time. The toolset uses templates to take the designing of interfaces off developers' hands.

ILOG's latest Business Rule Management System is the first to use Microsoft .NET. ILOG Rules for .NET integrates common Microsoft applications, like Word, and allows users to create and manage rules using documents they recognize.