Applications

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Borland has announced Enterprise Studio 7 for Java, an application lifecycle management system designed to help unify development teams and speed creation of business applications. The company's new software brings together three products into one unified...

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is a relatively unique event in the industry. Unlike other conferences of its type, this one is largely staffed by Microsoft programmers -- the same kind of people who generally attend these things. People tend to connect better with those who are...

Microsoft has released its first voice-control software for Pocket PC devices that run the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system. While there are many third-party applications available to control Pocket PC devices by voice command, Microsoft hopes its own Voice Command software will...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation develo...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation develo...

The makers and distributors of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series are being sued by the victims and family impacted by a June shooting spree that left one man dead and another woman injured. An attorney for the plaintiffs told TechNewsWorld that the Tennessee boys responsible for the sho...

Red Hat and SuSE today continued their Linux-fueled assaults on the enterprise market and proprietary vendor Microsoft with new releases that seek to broaden the open-source operating system's use in the data center and replace Microsoft e-mail software and servers. While Raleigh, North Carolina-bas...

Microsoft said it is making progress complying with its settlement of the antitrust case against it, but not everyone is buying the company's soft sell on the subject. In an interim status report filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the company, the U.S. Justice Departmen...

Facing increased competition and negative perceptions -- yet still optimistic and ready to fight for its home turf on the desktop -- Microsoft has made its new Office 2003 available to retail customers. Microsoft said the new Office "system" -- consisting of six suites, 11 products, four servers, on...

I've begun to see parallels between Microsoft's image problem and my own view of the Linux community. Much as the Linux community sees just one aspect of Microsoft, the bad one, I tend to see just one aspect of the Linux community. Generally speaking, our view of a person, initiative or company ofte...

Microsoft once again is discussing plans to overhaul its security just as the company has released five patches for seven newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows desktop and server software. The company issued the patches for a range of Windows systems that could be compromised as a result of th...

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Microsoft Debuts Visual Studio Tools for Office

Microsoft Office is one of the most far-reaching client applications in the world, used or customized by nearly 3 million developers and more than 400 million users. With today's launch of Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft is hoping to provide developers with the tools they need to take adva...

A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today's Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft's next operating system, code-named Long...

It might surprise you to know that, by survey, Microsoft has about 120 million happy customers. I'm guessing that, if you are reading this column, you probably aren't one of them. You might also be surprised to know that Microsoft surveys as one of the most-trusted vendors in the industry, and you l...

Last week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, the company announced that its Small Business Server -- part of the Windows Server 2003 family -- is now available on prebuilt systems from Dell, HP and other providers. Instead of dedicating different computers to different server tasks, the Sm...

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