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Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.

Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer environment that it promises will be easy enough for even business managers to use.

A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed by Java enterprise applications, according to Oracle.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 with a big emphasis on collaboration, extensibility and more rapid testing, which is winning fans among developers.

Microsoft’s next major release of Visual Studio, version 2010, will be the most radical overhaul of the product thus far with support for Web browser-like extensions, source code collaboration, application lifecycle management, and the open source JQuery among others.

An Australian tech startup has filled a missing piece of the open source Mono .Net application environment by integrating it with Microsoft's Active Directory server.

Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability, but a second add-on remains blocked, the organization said on Sunday.

MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

More applications for enterprise users may become available for the iPhone with a new developer tool from Novell.

Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Interoperability team is introducing on Friday an open source project to bridge PHP and Microsoft's .Net programming model, Microsoft representatives said.