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 SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...Jul. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,057 |
 ESRI, the leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year award. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Award recognizes partners that have developed and delivered exc...Jul. 2, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 575 |
 Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint™ 4.0, the fourth major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity. Including new capabilities for expedited...Jul. 1, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 333 |
 Businesses need the latest technologies to help them meet their needs, support their goals and compete in the marketplace. Layered Technologies has announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available on its automated Web hosting platform to ensure that customers can choose fr...Jul. 1, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 236 |
 Google’s coming at Microsoft through Exchange; now Zoho’s coming at it through SharePoint. It’s rigged it so SharePoint users can use its online office suite, create and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations, then save the results directly to SharePoint in Microsoft ...Jun. 26, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 464 |
 Microsoft has priced Windows 7. At retail the Home Premium version will list for $200, Professional $300, and Ultimate $320. That’s the full kit and Windows rarely sells for list. The upgrade prices are supposed to run $120 for Home Premium, $200 for Professional, and $220 for Ultimate...Jun. 25, 2009 03:18 PM EDT Reads: 270 |
 Sixty percent of the people who bought a netbook thought it was just a cute little notebook, which is why 42% of them were disappointed with the widget’s performance according research done by the NPD Group. The researcher found only 58% of the people who bought a netbook instead of a ...Jun. 24, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 965 |
That makes six awards over the past two years, on the heels of the company’s best financial quarter in its history. Jun. 24, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 334 |
 Microsoft Corp. has announced the winners and finalists of its 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards honor Microsoft Registered, Certified and Gold Certified partners for delivering exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year. Award winners and f...Jun. 24, 2009 09:01 AM EDT Reads: 414 |
 Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the uniPaaS application platform, now with .NET integration for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Clients and equivalent support for mob...Jun. 22, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 738 |
 In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...Jun. 22, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 80,353 |
 According to CNET, the new economical Microsoft is scaling back its YouTube-competitive Soapbox web video service, meaning to limit content to categories covered by its online properties like finance and entertainment. It could just as easily give the venture up as a complete loss and ...Jun. 19, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 Bing hasn’t exactly broken Google’s stranglehold on search but Microsoft’s scores are inching up thanks to it. According to comScore, Microsoft captured all of 9.1% of U.S. Internet searches the week before Bing was released, 9.1% Bing’s first week out and 12.1% last week and its share...Jun. 18, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 525 |
 It seems an age ago but remember back to last week when Google started a guerilla attack on Microsoft with a plug-in called Apps Sync for Outlook, which was supposed to let Google replace Exchange at the back end without it being the least bit obvious to Outlook users. Well, Microsoft’...Jun. 18, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 814 |
 Microsoft and Novell decided to revisit their eyebrow-raising pact the other day, the one that was signed in November of 2006 to the outrage of the FOSS mob, and let it be known – na-na-na-na-na – that it produced upwards of 100 new customers in the past six months, double the rate of ...Jun. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 955 |
 The next sound of wounded market share you hear will be coming from the direction of McAfee and Symantec. Microsoft says it’s testing a free PC anti-virus/spyware program dubbed Morro internally. A beta should be available soon on its web site. The company threatened to do this back in...Jun. 15, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 809 |
 Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers is an upgrade from an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2005. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts being presented on each page. As the authors have done with previous releases of SQL Ser...Jun. 15, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 595 |
 Inmagic has introduced Inmagic Presto 3.1, the latest version of the company’s Social Knowledge Management platform with new Microsoft SharePoint interoperability capabilities. The compatibility allows users to augment and leverage existing infrastructure and technology investments—ext...Jun. 15, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 254 |
 Microsoft’s chief architect Ray Ozzie has figured out that cloud margins aren’t gonna be the same as the margins derived from on-premises software. “The margins on services are not like the margins on software so [cloud computing] will increase our profit and it will increase our reven...Jun. 14, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 720 |
 The initial response to Bing, Microsoft’s new 10-day-old search engine, is favorable. According to comScore, Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches was up two points from 9.1% to 11.1% after a week and Microsoft’s penetration of daily searchers went from 13.8% to 15.5%. Now the trick is to...Jun. 12, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 606 |
 The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which wants to nail Microsoft’s hide to the barn door, told the European Commission that Redmond “substantially understated” its share of the European browser market in an effort to blunt the regulator’s determination to crucify ...Jun. 12, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 582 |
 Your solution to a simplified virtualization platform is here. Learn about the benefits of Microsoft Hyper-V technology integrated directly into Microsoft Windows Server 2008 OS. Get the facts on Hyper-V virtualization, discuss the architecture and technologies, and receive guidance on...Jun. 12, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 630 |
 Learn how to create your own highly available virtualized system while offering simplified management, dynamic performance, workload optimization, and reduced costs. Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 on Dell PowerEd...Jun. 12, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 534 |
 Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on our part, but it sounds like Microsoft – in the very nicest way, of course, to avoid any further fines – just told the European Commission to go f**k itself.Jun. 12, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,446 Replies: 2 |
 If you ever encountered a problem with incompatibility of Outlook .MSG files with the standard RFC822 .EML format which is used everywhere outside Microsoft realm, there is some good news for you.Jun. 11, 2009 09:19 AM EDT Reads: 178 |
 Microsoft released ASP .NET MVC for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you can find the installer on CodePlex. Many of the new Visual Studio 2010 features intended to support the TDD workflow fit very nicely with ASP.NET MVC, which ScottGu will describe in an upcoming blog post.
Jun. 11, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 513 |
 Exceed expectations for reliability, performance, and hard real-time while reducing production costs and time-to-solution by standardizing on one technology platform, from sensors to servers. With one development framework, Windows Embedded brings the ease and familiarity of Windows to...Jun. 10, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 355 |
 Aster Data Systems, the coming data warehouse company, has leveled the playing field and made it possible for .NET developers – what it calls the “other half” – to leverage the vaunted MapReduce programming model popularized by Google to write native “Big Data, Rich Computation” applic...Jun. 10, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 332 |
 The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear the Bilski business methods patent appeal in December. A district court and then the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit en banc threw out the so-called State Street test for patentability when they said that a method of hedging risks in com...Jun. 5, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 709 |
 Russia must need pin money. According to Reuters, its anti-monopoly police are investigating Microsoft because supplies of XP have dried up and it thinks Microsoft violated its laws by cutting deliveries of the operating system to the country, both the shrink-wrapped kind and bundled i...Jun. 5, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
 Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate.
Wind River is a leading software vendor ...Jun. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 834 |
 Microsoft says Windows 7, its new Vista-replacing operating system, will be generally available on Thursday October 22, a month ahead of Black Friday, the traditional holiday shopping kickoff in the states and three months ahead of its supposed schedule.
Jun. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 530 |
 Software FX today released the Virtual Training Center for SharePoint 2007, or VTC for short, a complete series of video training solutions geared to help IT personnel and SharePoint users with their SharePoint training needs.Jun. 2, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 550 |
 Adobe is gonna try nibbling on the great PowerPoint franchise. It’s publicly beta testing a collaborative web-based presentation application built on Flash called Acrobat.com Presentations. Jun. 1, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,242 |
 A couple of years ago Simone Chiaretta did a survey of .NET Developers usage of Ajax. I just saw that he is refreshing that survey to see what has changed in the industry. Are people still actively moving to Ajax? Are they using MVC or WebForms with their Ajax?May. 28, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 779 |
 Software development tools-maker Iron Speed, Inc. has released Iron Speed Designer Version 6.1, the latest version of its Web 2.0 application generator. Iron Speed Designer generates rich interactive data entry and reporting applications for .NET. The new source control file detection ...May. 28, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 979 |
 As the desire to deliver rich web content and functionality has increased over the last decade, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies have become increasingly powerful. This whitepaper provides a quick tour of the ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit from Accusoft Pegasus, while de...May. 28, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 797 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...May. 27, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,760 |
 Nearly half of all IT decision makers, developers, and architects report that they use Microsoft .NET as their application technology platform on which to run their applications. Until now the .NET Framework has only been available on Windows. The ability to run ASP.NET and other .NET ...May. 26, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 714 |
 SL Corporation has announced that the new release of SL-GMS Developer and Custom Editor for .NET supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Software vendors delivering specialized editors for real-time displays to the manufacturing industry are now able to provide drag-and-drop ac...May. 26, 2009 12:05 PM EDT Reads: 446 |
