Microsoft has released an updated WGA Notifications package. With this update, the pilot phase of WGA Notifications is complete, and the program will continue with a phased roll-out to Windows XP users worldwide. All English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutc...

Today at the Open Source Business Conference in London, Microsoft has unveiled CodePlex, an online collaborative software development portal that is also a vehicle for sharing source code. Microsoft CodePlex is already home to more than 30 collaborative developmen...

HP has introduced the fastest blade system solution for high-performance computing, which will be on display at this week's International Supercomputing Conference. The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world's fastest midplane at 5 terabytes per sec...

IBM has announced that it will extend the reach of its upcoming Lotus Sametime 7.5 collaboration platform -- the instant messaging software for enterprise customers -- by providing integration with Microsoft Outlook, Office and SharePoint applications. In additi...

Microsoft and HP have announced a joint effort focused on accelerating the transformation of telephony, audio-, video- and web conferencing, and instant messaging into a single unified communications platform. Under this initiative, highlighted at a strategy event...

Siemens Communications and Microsoft have announced the expansion of global collaborative efforts to advance the transformation of telephony, audio-, video- and web conferencing, instant messaging, and e-mail into a single unified communications platform. Cooperat...

Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division has unveiled the company's vision, technology road map and partner framework for unified communications at a strategy event in San Francisco. Microsoft's approach to unified communications will break down t...

On the eve of the first anniversary of Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC), there are 7,000 Microsoft partners worldwide enrolled in SBSC with more than 29,000 who have started the enrollment process making it one of the most popular offerings in the Microsoft Partner Program.

'Microsoft will release fiscal year 2006 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the stock market on Thursday, July 20, 2006. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. PDT on the Microsoft Investor Relations Web...

The Microsoft Windows Mobile for Automotive platform was named Best Telematics Solution at the Telematics Detroit 2006 conference and exhibition, held recently in Detroit, Microsoft has confirmed. Windows Mobile for Automotive defines the state of the art in autom...

Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and IBM have teamed up to announce that a new mark was achieved on the world's fastest supercomputer named BlueGene/L (BG/L). This world record for a scientific application was set by achieving...

Microsoft has showcased the community technology preview (CTP) of a new Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms at the RoboBusiness Conference and Ex...

Microsoft has showcased its advanced modeling and trading platforms, the Microsoft Office Excel Services/Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 solution at SIA (Securities Industry Association) Technology Management Conference & Exhibit. Microsoft Office Excel and Mi...

Microsoft has announced that Valle del Sol, a Phoenix-based behavioral health and social services agency, has selected Microsoft Dynamics GP as the technology of choice for its new IT solution. The company, which employs more than 200 people in multiple locations,...

A new honor recognizes Above All Software's superior achievement in solving a complex integration business problem faced by a fictional retail bank by using key Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. Other participants in the event included BEA, Cape Cl...

Digipede Technologies, a provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform will demonstrate the first .NET-based grid-enabled computing applications in the financial services market running on the new Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster ...

Microsoft has announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, Chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft LifeCams, an innovative new line of webcams that dramatically simplifies the video communications experience to let people see, hear and share life's experiences in an extraordinary way, as per the Company.

IBM has unveiled the Nortel 10G Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for BladeCenter, providing breakthrough performance for applications with high bandwidth demands, such as video on demand, Internet protocol television (IPTV), and other mission-critical and real-time...

Microsoft outlines its strategy to foster the development of Office Business Applications, a new breed of ?People-Ready? business solutions that allow information workers to use their familiar Microsoft Office environment for accessing and interacting with busin...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0, an adaptable, global business-management solution that works like and with familiar Microsoft software and helps organizations gain a competitive advantage. Through the use of web servi...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will relinquish his other title of Chief Software Architect, effectively ending his day-to-day participation in the ongoing operations of the company he co-founded three decades ago, Microsoft Corp. Ray Ozzie, who came over to Microso...

Compuware Corporation enhanced its application service management solution, Compuware Vantage, by introducing full-time monitoring and root cause analysis for .NET applications. These additions supplement Compuware Vantage's already powerful support for Java appli...

This new version of NetAdvantage for .NET includes all the user interface components tools necessary to deliver robust, high performance, polished applications to end users. NetAdvantage for .NET 2006 Volume 2 includes grids, charting, scheduling, navigation, ed...

Mainsoft is partnering two IBM Premier Business Partners: The TamGroup, specializing in the integration, management, and delivery of information via Portals, and with Prolifics, a provider of WebSphere, Portal, SOA, and Business Integration solutions. The IBM busi...

Microsoft will be offering special licenses to developers for the Beta 2 version of Longhorn Server. Breaking with company tradition, Redmond will let developers license this Beta to run in production mode. The company also announced its virtualization roadmap at ...

There's speculation on Wall Street that Microsoft is going to dump CEO Steve Ballmer and hold him responsible for the company's ills like not being able to get its stock price to move off the dime. There's no speculation about who would succeed him yet, just a shi...

Mainsoft and Azul have formed a partnership to enable enterprises running Microsoft .NET framework applications to tap into network attached processing and provide massive amounts of processing and memory resources delivered as a shared network service.

Hanselminutes is a weekly 30-minute podcast with Web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman hosted by Carl Franklin. The following is a transcript from show number 4 on Continuous Integration. You can listen online at www.hanselminutes.com.

A bite-sized slice of Microsoft Vista Office functionality is available now and it works with Google's video alpha.

'This is not a media publishing company,' says John Dvorak, referring to Microsoft, 'it's a software publishing company.' And, according to Dvorak anyway, it's a software publishing company that is 'bed-ridden.' The company is 'not about to stop making gobs of mon...

The announcement by Microsoft that it proposes to spend $2BN more in fiscal 2007 than analysts were anticipating - as it bolsters its market position against newcomers like Google, Inc. and the associated threat to its desktop hegemony - today cost the company $...

ComponentArt has released version 2006.1 of its next-generation 3D charting line: ComponentArt Charting for .NET. The release consists of WebChart for ASP.NET for web-based solutions, and WinChart for .NET for Windows Forms development, and the controls are avai...

IBM has opened a new global delivery center in Shanghai, China, to address the growing global demand for the delivery of application services. The center will offer IT services in English, Japanese, Mandarin, and German, to clients from Japan, Europe and North America.

Re-invent has launched Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft .NET. It is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 that enables developers to build secure Web services based on the latest Web services protocol specifications.

Thermo Electron, provider of analytical instruments and informatics for the food and beverage industry is about to unveil the latest upgrades to its processing monitor equipment in Europe.The US-based company says the upgrades are in response to manufacturers dema...

BEA Systems Inc. has extended its vision of an integrated suite for service-oriented architecture (SOA) with its new AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1 (ALDSP).ALDSP 2.1 is designed to help application developers and SOA architects automate the process of serv...

Blogger John C. Dvorak has summarized recent coverage and angles relating to an alleged uproar within Microsoft over the most recent delay of the Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) operating system. This uproar has many within Microsoft calling for the ouster of co...

Microsoft Australia and the ACT Government have launched Canberra.NET, an ICT development initiative. Canberra.NET will promote the ACT as a centre of excellence for web services using the Microsoft .NET platform and help local software developers market their int...

Supply chain solutions provider, Manhattan Associates has announced enhancements to its Integrated Logistics Solutions, built on Microsoft .NET. This comprehensive solution now includes several other components of Manhattan Associates' supply chain execution sol...