Microsoft is in the early stages of IE9 development but they are already focusing on standards and the performance gains they can realize by taking advantage of modern PC hardware.
Microsoft shocks PDC attendees by giving them a free tablet PC, but for Microsoft the gift arms a horde of developers with the tools to explore Windows 7's advanced features and expose the possibilities they promise.
Microsoft is introducing a directory technology built on a database and designed around a new API that provides developers with a single model for building claims-based access controls into applications that run in the cloud, internally or on devices.
Almost as a forgotten footnote, Microsoft introduce System Center "Cloud" Tuesday providing little detail other than a name on a slide during the opening keynote of the annual PDC conference.
The leader of Microsoft's month-old FUSE Lab that focuses on "social experiences" says the goal is to blend research and product development so tangible software or services quickly gets into the hands of users.
Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 license.
Syncplicity Tuesday unveiled an enterprise online service that gives users a central repository for storing, sharing and backing up all their information.
In November 2004, a skunksworks project called Phoenix turned into a browser called Firefox and now five years later the plan is to rise again, but this time not from ashes.
Microsoft released six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities. Here's a look at what security experts are saying about the vulnerabilities, patches and what should concern users.
Novell has released a Mono-based plug-in for Visual Studio that gives developers a debugger to help them use Windows to design applications that will run on Linux..