Topic: microsoft

Short Takes: June 1, 2010

The editors talk about unsafe ATMs, Facebook privacy, Hadoop, and a really cool thing IBM is doing … continue reading

Microsoft shuffles the executive deck

Robbie Bach, the current head of the company’s Entertainment and Devices division, will retire this fall … continue reading

Composite app development gets boost from Microsoft

AppFabric and BizTalk servers now have caching and enhanced communication capabilities … continue reading

Microsoft loses patent challenge

Victory gives i4i right to hold onto its code for handling custom XML while compromising Microsoft’s anti-patent strategy … continue reading

Microsoft aims for top of business intelligence market with SQL Server release

SQL Server now has PowerPivot, a self-service analytics components that works with both transactional and stored data … continue reading

Windows &. NET Watch: Microsoft calling

Windows Phone 7 shows a lot of potential, but can it attract enough attention to overpower its competition? … continue reading

Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0

Today’s release adds architecture and testing tools, as well as upgrades to Team Foundation Server … continue reading

‘Midori’ concepts materialize in .NET

F# and Silverlight are leading Microsoft towards a future of concurrency … continue reading

Going ‘all in’ on .NET as default runtime

Programmers for Windows Phone 7 will need to use Silverlight and XNA for development … continue reading

Even with its success, .NET causes some consternation

Despite its popularity, the developer community believes that .NET isn’t being fully served by Microsoft … continue reading

From the Editors: Microsoft’s changing .NET standards

Microsoft’s constant changing of .NET is not good for the industry; the release train method for open-source projects is good … continue reading

Talking with Tim O’Brien on Microsoft’s Platform

The director of Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group discusses the future of Microsoft’s cloud plans … continue reading

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