SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, has announced the final release of Spring.NET 1.1, an application framework for the development and deployment of enterprise .NET applications. With roots in the widely used Spring Framework programming model for Java...

The annual Consumer Electronics Show keynote by Bill Gates has become an annual tradition, but his 11th CES opening keynote is likely to be his last. During the keynote, Gates talked about the ongoing transformation of the personal computer and he shared sales fig...

Telerik has released RadControls Q3 2007. The latest volume includes updates for all product lines for Web and desktop presentation layer development, as well as a new release of Telerik Reporting and a preview of Telerik's RIA controls for Silverlight 1.1/2.0. Q3...

In response to the commercial release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, the latest version of the most popular Integrated Development Environment for Microsoft .NET Developers, Software FX announced that it has updated and changed the name of its Chart FX for Visua...

Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-platform plug-in for delivering rich interactive experiences over the web. The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On extends Chart FX 7 and allows developers to add Chart FX functionality to their Silverlight-based web applications. Softwa...

'Our adoption of MSN SideGuide expands the strategic relationship we have enjoyed with Microsoft and MSN since November 2006,' said MetroFi President and CEO, Chuck Haas, as MetroFi yesterday announced its planned introduction of MSN SideGuide as an advertising ...

Microsoft is opening up its ad-supported 'software-plus-services' Office Live Workspace answer to Google Apps to public beta for feedback, it says, starting with those who pre-registered for the thing. The way it works Office users can post Word, PowerPoint, Excel...

As a part of a move to streamline patient records and deliver health solutions across incompatible software platforms, IBM and business partner Mainsoft Corporation announced that Healthways has crossed the .NET-Java EE software standards divide to deploy a multim...

'This acquisition will play a significant role in the future growth of our search business and presents a huge opportunity to expand our platform business beyond the U.K. and globally,' said Sharon Baylay, general manager of the Online Services Group at Microsoft,...

Microsoft put out its second Windows Server 2008 release candidate (RC1) Wednesday for anyone, it appears, to download and poke around ahead of the thing's long-awaited launch at the end of February at an event now dubbed 'Heroes happen here.' To take you back, Mi...

DNK Web Solutions, Inc announced the launch of .NET 3.5 hosting. DNK Web Solutions production web servers are installed side-by-side with .NET Framework 3.5 and earlier versions. Customers can choose which ASP.NET version they desire to develop against using a rea...

'Please don't mistake silence for inaction,' requested IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch this week, as he revealed the none too astonishing news that the version after IE7 is to be called...IE8. His team looked at a host of alternative names, Hachamovitch said ...

Xceed has announced that Microsoft is using Xceed Zip for .NET and Xceed Chart for .NET to implement client-side and server-side portions of its upcoming Windows Home Server product. Windows Home Server helps centralize and connect digital experiences, providing a...

The .NET Framework 3.5 release last week was a big one for .NET, and delivered what Scott Guthrie summarized as 'a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.' Guthrie additionally shared with developers a road-map of s...

The world's second-largest retailer after Wal-Mart Carrefour has stores practically everywhere; 5,832 in Europe alone so 365 is just a drop in the bucket. With the Carrefour deal, its first European mass merchandiser, Dell counts 10,000 shops worldwide carrying ...

Whoops! This one almost got by us. Microsoft last week said it signed a patent cross-license with Kyocera Mita that's supposed to protect the Japanese firm's multifunction products (MFPs), printers, copiers and 'certain Linux-based embedded devices.' No talk of te...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just memorialized the Affero GPLv3, a version of the GPL that was created to cover software that runs over a network such as the Internet, which these days would mean, oh, SaaS stuff and Google Apps, Web Services, game server...

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed two more lawsuits in defense of the GPL, charging router maker Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain Antennas LLC with denying downstream recipients of GPL-protected code with access to the source code. One can only ho...

Microsoft this week announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have released to manufacturing (RTM) and are now available for MSDN subscribers to download, and will be available soon to Microsoft's customers through its various other channels. ...

Microsoft's immediate answer to rival web-based applications, its free Windows Live online programs, the stuff it calls 'software plus services,' emerged from their beta gauntlet Tuesday. The suite includes e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, paren...

In what amounts to a monumental reversal of policy, Microsoft said Monday in a press release - so it's in writing - and publicly at TechEd in Barcelona that it's changing its licensing terms and will no longer restrict developers 'to building solutions on top of V...

The demonstrations will illustrate practical interoperability scenarios between some of the Web Services platforms implemented by vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, BEA, and WS02. The session will cover interoperability best practices ...

When it comes to cutting I/O cost, power, management and real estate requirements in blade servers, the ideal I/O solution is a single, unified I/O adapter that can provide required services for all data center traffic types - LAN, SAN and IPC. This is because bla...

After much anticipation, today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain, S. 'Soma' Somasegar, Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, announced Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released by the end of November 2007. Somasega...

Most of the restrictions imposed on Microsoft by its 2002 consent decree with the US government - which were supposed to expire on November 12 - have been temporarily extended to no later than January 31, 2008 to accommodate the legal maneuvering of the states now...

In a big uh-oh for Microsoft, Yahoo and the other GoogleClick critics, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission approved Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Tuesday. The regulator decided the two companies weren't close competitors, which is...

Consistent with its position that the 2002 consent decree imposed on Microsoft did what it was supposed to - and that the European Commission is misguided - the Justice Department says it has no intension of seeking to extend the decree's provisions past their Nov...

Eleventh-hour bugs have held up the production of One Laptop Per Child's XO machine and the production hiccup is going to throw a monkey wrench into the non-profit's 'Give 1 Get 1' fundraiser, according to Reuters. Production has been pushed from October until No...

For all the badmouthing it gets, Microsoft keeps trudging gloriously on - this time far enough out to tickle its stock out of its usual quagmire and score a multi-year high of $35.72 after hours, up 11.6%. The company posted revenues of $13.76 billion for the Septe...

Microsoft, which has decided not to appeal the Court of First Instance's September 17 ruling in favor of the European Commission and its 2004 antitrust order against the company, has also agreed to bend its terms to the open source business model and slash the pri...

In the past year, Apple stock has been +115%, vs Microsoft +7%. Over the last five years, Apple stock has been +2270%, vs Microsoft +21%. And in the last ten years, Apple stock has been +4314%, vs Microsoft +89%. Those extraordinary statistics emerged during the wee...

Microsoft released a beta XP SP3 to testers on Sunday and, besides a veritable multitude of 1,073 fixes and patches, according to a blog by NeoSmart Technologies, it apparently contains more backported - presumably life-extending - Vista security features than it ...

Ballmer then went on to say: 'There are plenty of other people who may also have intellectual property. And every time an Eolas comes to Microsoft and says 'Pay us,' I suspect they also would like to eventually go to the open source world. So getting what I'll cal...

'Our Windows Live Hotmail, in and of itself, doesn't generate much ad revenue,' explained Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme speech this week. 'So we've had to put, essentially, a whole portal around it because the traff...

Microsoft could do more multibillion-dollars deals like its $6.1 billion acquisition of online ad house aQuantive, CEO Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in Zurich. Reuters quotes him as saying, 'We do not rule out any more deals like this. But this somethin...

Earth Class Mail, the start-up with the vision of traditional posts opening the mail and delivering it electronically, announced a relationship with Microsoft from Post Expo 2007 in Barcelona this week. Earth Class has moved its Linux-based platform to .NET, as it...

A flaw that allows hackers to use rigged PDF files to take control of Window XP computers with Internet Explorer 7 installed, remains unpatched. The exploit has been known since April at least, yet neither Microsoft nor Adobe have yet patched it. To protect Window...

Infragistics has released Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 3, which includes toolsets for both ASP.NET and Windows Forms, giving developers the tools to create compelling user experiences in line-of-business applications. NetAdvantage for .NET 2007...

Microsoft says it's going to release the source code for the .NET Framework libraries with the .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 release later this year.nThe code will be released under the read-only Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL) generally used only for debugg...

In a move widely interpreted as a response to Google, Microsoft inched Office a tad closer to the web Sunday when it started accepting applications to play with some webby beta functionality it intends to introduce later this year called Office Live Workspace. Whe...