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Microsoft won't stop .Net on Android

Oracle's patent and copyright lawsuit against Google for its use of Java in Android won't be repeated by Microsoft if .Net is used on the Linux-based mobile operating system instead.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 August, 2010 09:34

Tags: Android, C#, Free Software Foundation, Google, Java, legal, Microsoft, mono, monodroid, monotouch, .net, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, patents

Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft

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.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 August, 2010 12:32

Tags: IronPython, IronRuby, Microsoft, .net, open source, python, ruby, software development, visual studio

Microsoft simplifies Visual Studio

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.

By Joab Jackson | 04 August, 2010 03:23

Tags: application development, Development tools, Languages and standards, Microsoft, software, visual studio

Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights

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.

By Joab Jackson | 15 July, 2010 06:30

Tags: applications, databases, data integration, data management, grid software, Java, middleware, .net, oracle, scalability, software

Visual Studio 2010 release ups testing tools ante

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

By Rodney Gedda | 12 April, 2010 13:01

Tags: Access Testing, Microsoft, Red Lizard, software development, software testing, Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 opens up to browser-like extensions

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.

By Rodney Gedda | 16 December, 2009 14:46

Tags: ide, Microsoft, software development, visual studio, Visual Studio 2010

Aussie Startup plugs in Mono to Active Directory

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.

By Rodney Gedda | 10 December, 2009 14:10

Tags: Active Directory, HubOne, Microsoft, mono project, .net, novell, social networking

Mozilla unblocks Microsoft add-on for Firefox

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.

By Jeremy Kirk | 20 October, 2009 08:01

Tags: firefox, Microsoft, .net, plug-ins

MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology

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.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 16 September, 2009 05:36

Tags: data analysis, mapreduce, MySpace, open source

Novell tool opens iPhone to .Net developers

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

By Nancy Gohring | 15 September, 2009 05:10

Tags: iPhone, iphone apps, mobile applications, mono project, .net, novell

Microsoft offers open source link for PHP, .Net

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.

By Paul Krill | 24 August, 2009 05:49

Tags: Codeplex, Microsoft, .net, open source toolkit, php, rest

Microsoft pitches interoperability at JavaOne

Five years after settling a bitter lawsuit with Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language, a Microsoft executive made the company's first-ever JavaOne keynote address Thursday.

By Robert McMillan | 05 June, 2009 04:28

Tags: interoperability, Java, javaone, Microsoft, .net

Commbank taps Ajax for biggest Web site redesign

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will launch its largest and most ambitious customer experience project this week with an Ajax-enabled Web portal allowing customers to personalise their online banking sessions.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 May, 2009 14:24

Tags: ajax, commonwealth bank, .net, oracle, single sign-on

New Moonlight release available for testing

A new version of the Moonlight open-source technology that puts Silverlight on Linux is now available for developers to test.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 07 May, 2009 04:47

Tags: Microsoft, mono project, moonlight, .net, silverlight

Linux out, Windows in at Electoral Commission

The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) will leave Linux for Windows Server when it develops its new vote counting and reporting application, which is slated to cost $1.4 million over the next two years.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 April, 2009 12:06

Tags: e-voting, Java, Linux, .net, NSW Electoral Commission, oracle, oracle 11g, PowerBuilder, windows server

Researcher offers tool to hide malware in .Net

A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool that can simplify the placement of difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft's .Net framework on Windows computers.

By Jeremy Kirk | 20 April, 2009 05:03

Tags: malware, .net, security

Microsoft heralds Silverlight-Eclipse link

Microsoft is touting support for its Silverlight multimedia application technology in the Eclipse open source tools platform.

By Paul Krill | 10 March, 2009 08:35

Tags: eclipse computing, silverlight

Microsoft converging programming languages

Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week.

By Paul Krill | 02 March, 2009 09:34

Tags: C#, visual basic

Microsoft to show off new Visual Studio UI

Microsoft will show on Tuesday morning the "modernized" look and feel for the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment.

By Paul Krill | 25 February, 2009 10:28

Tags: visualstudio

Microsoft Visual Studio to boost SharePoint

Developers building solutions based on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual Studio 2010 development environment, which will feature templates and an extensibility API, a Microsoft official said in a blog on Thursday.

By Paul Krill | 23 February, 2009 08:24

Tags: sharepoint, visual studio

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