Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2009
Windows 7 has gone RTM and seems poised undo much of the damage Windows Vista has wrought. Is it time to start developing for Windows 7?
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2009
How is your organization weathering the downturn?
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2009
Visual Studio now supports myriad development platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2009
Will service-oriented compilers and domain-savvy, general-purpose programming languages jive with the dangers posed by over-iterating a language like C#?
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2009
The transition to parallel processing won't be easy.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2009
Sun's JavaFX vs. Silverlight, Flash and AIR.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2008
The real driver behind Microsoft's business strategy has been, and will be, .NET.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
The PDC 2008 offered a stunning display of overwhelming force as Microsoft rolled out a veritable host of development-oriented platforms, products, tools and technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2008
Microsoft has been showering the industry with new developer-related technologies and updates.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft sets aside a plan to craft its own jQuery alternative to adopt the open source JavaScript library instead.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/15/2008
Leaner times are ahead for development shops. Microsoft developers may be in a more sheltered position.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2008
Excited about Chrome; but even more excited about Microsoft's response.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Microsoft is poised to unveil details about Visual Studio 10, Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft is looking for a way out of the Windows legacy code bear trap and if 'Midori' is any indication, it appears Redmond is working to do just that.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/15/2008