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’...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Microsoft is going to feed projects from its CodePlex open source project hosting site automatically into Black Duck’s open source KnowledgeBase repository. Black Duck’s software keeps track of the use of open source components in mixed-source development projects. The CodePlex project...

By all accounts – including the Wall Street Journal – Microsoft’s fabled remake of its search engine is supposed to make its public debut at the Journal’s D7 coffee klatch next week in California. Code named Kumo, Japanese, we’ve been led to believe, for both spider and cloud, Microsof...

Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, the epicenter of the movement that wants to destroy Microsoft, have sent a joint letter to the American Law Institute (ALI) protesting its draft Principles of the Law of Software Contracts meant to guide judges in interpreting licensing agreements. ...

Autonomy Corporation plc has announced that Autonomy Interwoven LiveSite, a next-generation dynamic content delivery engine, is now available to Microsoft .NET customers. By deploying LiveSite with Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Microsoft customers can now tap into...

Despite last week’s report that Microsoft wouldn’t even show up, it’s now said that it’s going to its antitrust hearing in Brussels next month. It’s reportedly going to paint Google, which is one of the complaints, as the boogeyman to spook a European Commission already worried about G...

Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte confirmed at TechEd Monday what everybody has long since figured out: Windows 7 will make it into the stores in time for the holiday sales cycle. But Microsoft needs to make it to the shelves for back-to-school sales; it needs the money. Enter Steven Sin...

This is a year of firsts for Microsoft: its first wide-scale layoffs, its first drop in quarterly sales and earnings, and now its first debt offering. It sold five-, 10- and 30-year bonds Monday and raised $3.75 billion on the strength of its Triple-A credit rating from both Moody’s an...

Comodo's LivePCSupport for Businesses allows PC users to open a chat window with an expert technician. The Comodo expert can address many PC issues online, day or night, even weekends and holidays. If the browser balks when a small business owner is researching an important proposal, i...

It's all just a guessing game right now but on Wednesday the European Commission is expected to levy a capital fine on Intel of somewhere between $600 million and $1.6 billion, possibly the largest single penalty the EC regulators have ever exacted, more than the combined fines Microso...

A hearing date of June 3–5 has been set for Microsoft to offer oral arguments against the European Commission’s browser accusations that bundling IE with Windows is a prima facie antitrust violation. Paidcontent.org, however, says Microsoft may skip the hearing and simply bend its neck...

Microsoft has posted both the public release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate and the beta XP Mode (XPM) add-on, the virtualized rendition of XP that Microsoft made so users of the new operating system can run XP apps, well, so at least the premium SKUs of Win7 can, provided they hav...

Buried under the buzz around Windows 7 RC release, here’s an important update from Microsoft - Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first Windows operating system to be offered for only 64-bit processors. And Windows Server 2008 R2 can now suppo...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out an all-hands e-mail Tuesday morning saying that the company was about axe more of the 5,000 people that it said in January it would lay off by the middle of next year. When Microsoft announced its first wide-scale layoffs ever, it immediately cut 1,...

Ingeniux Corporation has announced Cartella, an application for managing enterprise social content and online collaboration. Cartella is the first unified social content management application that integrates social networking, Web 2.0 tools, analytics and content management into a si...

BakBone Software has announced that it has acquired certain assets from Asempra Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in Santa Clara, Calif. Asempra develops real-time data protection and recovery solutions for Windows applications and file system data. Under the terms of ...

"Listening to our partners and customers has been fundamental to the development of Windows 7," said Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows business at Microsoft. "We heard them and worked hard to deliver the highest quality Release Candidate in the history of Windows. We h...

Microsoft recently announced the quarterly recipients of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real world expertise wit...