Microsoft is shifting along with the market, and now sees itself as a "devices and services company."
Microsoft plans to end its "Windows Live" branding in the next few months as it prepares to release the Windows 8 operating system.
Well-integrated environment from SapphireSteel lets .NET developers create Flex applications for the Flash platform.
Last month's general availability of Oracle's MySQL 5.5 is a significant release.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/07/2011
Cloud computing solutions vary considerably, yet claim superior privacy, security and scalability over on-premises deployments that also require the expense of an IT department to manage them.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 01/01/2011
Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/02/2010
During the 2010 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in late October, the keynote address demonstrated Internet Explorer 9 and its superb support for HTML5.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 12/01/2010
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Microsoft knows HTML5 is coming, and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) needs to implement it or face irrelevance.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2010
Google has released a new Java development environment aimed at the non-coder developer who wants to build applications for the Android operating system.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2010
Microsoft updates its Web and application design suite with streamlined features and support for Visual Studio 2010 projects.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/07/2010
Windows Forms development is still dominant in the enterprise. Will more developers build Silverlight apps as the tooling becomes available in VS2010?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/05/2010
I've always been a data guy. I think data maintenance, sharing and analysis is the inspiration for almost all line-of-business software, and technology that makes any or all of it easier is key to platform success.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2010
Microsoft is enabling developers to use familiar tools and skills to build Silverlight applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2010
Silverlight news will play a major part in Microsoft's annual MIX10 conference for Web developers and designers in Las Vegas next week.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/12/2010