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Jan 05. 09
by Roger Burkhardt
http://www.sys-con.com —
2008 was an eventful, breakthrough year for many open source companies, and 2009 will hold even more promise for the open source market, especially in terms of business purchasing patterns, software b... more
Jan 02. 09
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Cloud development platforms, mobile application development and the increasing acceptance of dynamic languages for Web development were among the top 10 stories in the world of software programming. W... more
Jan 01. 09
by Neil McAllister
http://www.infoworld.com —
Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the... more
Dec 31. 08
by Justin Angel
http://silverlight.net —
I'm a huge supporter of open source software development and I'd like to take this opportunity to go over the Silverlight Contrib O/S project.
Fair disclosure first though, my current role is Program... more
Dec 29. 08
by Kirupa Chinnathambi
http://blogs.msdn.com —
Exactly a year ago (plus one day...but who's counting?!), I posted a sample WPF application that simulates falling snow. Since Silverlight 2 was released since then, below you will find a Silverlight ... more
Dec 26. 08
by Doug Dineley
http://www.infoworld.com —
We suppose it happens in families too, where one twin seems charmed from the start while the other lives under a shadow. Certainly that's the case with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the one a... more
Dec 23. 08
by JC Grubbs
http://www.sys-con.com —
A few years ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a designer possessed of a rare talent. We were both part of the same team and he was creating some UI elements that I was to wire up. As I sat th... more
Dec 23. 08
by Elizabeth Montalbano
http://www.pcworld.com —
Though the quest to acquire Yahoo dominated news surrounding Microsoft's Web strategy in 2008, another story was brewing quietly behind the scenes that could be even more significant for the company i... more
Dec 22. 08
by Paul Krill
http://www.infoworld.com —
Microsoft is moving forward on two fronts with its MVC (Model View Controller) software development platform for the Web, providing design assistance and readying a release candidate of the technology... more
Dec 19. 08
by Softpedia
http://news.softpedia.com —
Deep Earth is a project created at the intersection of Microsoft Virtual Earth, Silverlight 2, and open source. Hosted on the Redmond company's open source repository CodePlex, version 1.0 of Deep Ear... more
Dec 17. 08
by Joshua Allen
http://www.visitmix.com —
If you're a professional front end web developer, you care deeply about web standards and professional best practices like semantic markup, unobtrusive JavaScript, and CSS. And you're used to seeing M... more
Dec 16. 08
by Dmitry Fadeyev
http://www.smashingmagazine.com —
Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here's my collection of 10 that I think you'll find use... more
Dec 15. 08
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Microsoft has appointed a new point man to put a face on its interaction with the open source community. That man, Robert Duffner, takes on a big task as senior director of Platform and Open Source So... more
Dec 15. 08
by David Hamilton
http://www.thewhir.com —
After nearly two months in beta, Windows-based hosting control panel developer DotNetPanel (www.dotnetpanel.com) has released DotNetPanel 2.8.1 and the new Hyper-V module for creating, managing and se... more
Dec 11. 08
by Hiveminds
http://hiveminds.co.uk —
500 internal error has got to be the single most hated thing in web development. It is a non-informative "this can't be done" report of an error in Perl, PHP, ASP.NET ... you name it. But they are pre... more
Dec 09. 08
by Nancy Gohring
http://www.infoworld.com —
Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites.
Called Oxite, its creators describe it a... more
Dec 08. 08
by Adam Kinney
http://channel9.msdn.com —
When ASP.NET MVC hit like Preview 3 or 4, quite a few of us were saying "We should get together and build new blog software based on MVC, it would be so fun!".
Well as good ideas go sometimes... more
Dec 03. 08
by Sean Michael Kerner
http://www.internetnews.com —
Linux users are getting closer to full Microsoft Silverlight functionality to view rich media applications on the Web. The Novell-sponsored Moonlight project today released its first beta of its Linux... more
Dec 02. 08
by Richard Adhikari
http://www.internetnews.com —
Saving money with a cloud computing strategy is not enough; innovating and building new capabilities will take enterprises to the next level.
Enterprises have to do more than move to the cloud in ord... more
Dec 01. 08
by Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com —
The great Rico Mariani, software performance guru and Chief Architect of Visual Studio (we dig into what this role is exactly...), sits down with us to discuss what's on tap for the next iteration(s) ... more
Nov 26. 08
by Jeffrey Schwartz
http://rcpmag.com —
Facing criticism that the beta of its Web Platform Installer didn't support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft addressed that complaint with the release candidate made available yesterday.
... more
Nov 20. 08
by Hiveminds
http://www.hiveminds.co.uk —
Silverlight 2 brings better implementation and more features to HD video and interactive animations via the browser plugin. The Silverlight 2 WOW! factor is that it brings the .NET runtime to the brow... more
Nov 19. 08
by Jeffrey Schwartz
http://reddevnews.com —
Microsoft today previewed the ability to centrally manage applications and resources in the planned upgrade of SQL Server, code-named "Kilimanjaro."
The company introduced the centralized app and sys... more
Nov 18. 08
by Emil Protalinski
http://arstechnica.com —
Less than a year after sending out Beta 1, Microsoft released the final version of Silverlight 2 in October. According to Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division... more
Nov 13. 08
by DevExpress
http://www.devexpress.com —
DevExpress has released a collection of free ASP.NET controls that you can use “without royalties or distribution costs". The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royal... more
Nov 11. 08
by Andy Patrizio
http://www.internetnews.com —
As if Microsoft hasn't been busy enough with developer news – the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) just took place, separated by one... more
Nov 11. 08
by Softpedia
http://news.softpedia.com —
Microsoft is unveiling the first line-up of applications built for its Live Mesh synchronization environment. The MeshPack was developed by the Microsoft Startup Labs as a set of programs designed to ... more
Nov 05. 08
by Herb Torrens
http://rcpmag.com —
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server. The extension, announced las... more
Oct 31. 08
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Microsoft has delivered a new software development kit (SDK) for its Surface computer.
At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) here, Brad Carpenter, general manager of Microsoft's S... more
Oct 30. 08
by Gavin Clarke
http://www.theregister.co.uk —
Microsoft is reaching out to open-source and adding a dash of RIA bling to its latest model-driven development crusade.
The company has released M, its new programming language for building textual d... more
Oct 28. 08
http://www.microsoft.com —
Do you have a Facebook account and want to do more with it? Start creating cool, fun Windows and Web applications with the Facebook Developer Kit. The toolkit offers a huge amount of easy-to-use set o... more
Oct 27. 08
by Elizabeth Montalbano
http://www.computerworld.com —
Microsoft targets Amazon's EC2 service with Azure technology, Ray Ozzie says at PDC show.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.'s chief software architect, today detailed Windows Azure, a cloud computing versio... more
Oct 16. 08
by Matt Asay
http://news.cnet.com —
The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for D... more
Oct 16. 08
by David Worthington
http://www.sdtimes.com —
If you can’t beat them, join them, and make certain that people notice. Microsoft has introduced an installer that streamlines installations of free components from its Web application platform,... more
Sep 30. 08
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, and says the overall development strategy revolves around five pillars. The first pillar involves the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 20... more
Sep 30. 08
by David Neal
http://www.vnunet.com —
Microsoft has launched an SQL Server 2008 Experience web site offering new resources for customers and partners.
Three separate sections offer specific information for IT Professionals, Decision Make... more
Jan 05. 09
by Roger Burkhardt
http://www.sys-con.com —
2008 was an eventful, breakthrough year for many open source companies, and 2009 will hold even more promise for the open source market, especially in terms of business purchasing patterns, software business model shifts, and enterprise software stack evolution. The current econo...
Jan 05. 09
by Michael Arrington
http://www.techcrunch.com —
Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem). But someone hacking into Twitter's internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile accounts, including President Elect Barack Obama, has Twitter users fre...
Jan 02. 09
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Cloud development platforms, mobile application development and the increasing acceptance of dynamic languages for Web development were among the top 10 stories in the world of software programming. With each passing year, software tools have become more sophisticated. While deve...
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