Microsoft touts Scrum tool
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has built a tool to track the daily progress of Scrum-based software development projects.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has released its second Community Technology Preview (CTP) for SQL Server 2005, adding greater performance and 64-bit support for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.
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Editor&#39;s Summary: At a supercomputing conference, Microsoft announced a new tool kit that will let developers create high-performance computing applications.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O is planning to release a new version of its Office program for small businesses that handles accounting and customer management tasks, the world&#39;s largest software maker said on Friday.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has taken steps to help enterprise developers who want to test their applications against Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
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Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview of its integrated performance management software, PerformancePoint Server 2007.
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Microsoft released on Tuesday a preview version of new tools intended to make it easier for companies to create custom Web applications.
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Frankfurt, October 18: Microsoft launched a new software product aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises on Monday to strengthen its position in a fragmented market it sees as ripe for growth.
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A tool to support engineers & managers in the use & execution of the PSP(SM) and TSP(SM); automates metrics collection & analysis. Personal Software Process, PSP, Team Software Process, and TSP are registered service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.   The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.9 of the Process Dashboard.  Version 1.9 includes many significant new features, as described at:  http://processdash.sourceforge.net/news.htm
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Microsoft showed off some features of the next version of Project, to the delight of the crowd gathered at the Microsoft Office Project Conference in Seattle.The audience applauded a new timeline view that will become available. Alice Steinglass, senior program manager for Microsoft Office Project, showed how users can cut and paste the timeline into other applications, such as a PowerPoint slide. Once pasted, users can alter individual components of the image, deleting sections and changing the font, for example.That&#39;s one feature that furthers Microsoft&#39;s goal of making Project not only easier to use for project managers but usable by more people in an organization. &quot;At the end of the day, the fundamental thesis here is that we are all project managers because we all manage work,&quot; said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&#39;s CEO, addressing the audience on Tuesday. &quot;Whether my personal project management system happens to look more like a formal project or a task list that I might keep in something like Excel or Outlook, we need to make sure that we give rich tool sets to people at all levels of the food chain to help them do work management.&quot;A major user interface change to come within Project that Steinglass showed off is the icon ribbon at the top of the screen, similar to the one featured on many other Microsoft programs&#160;such as&#160;Word. Users can click on different tabs at the top and the icons available in the ribbon change. With the click of an icon, users can, for example,&#160;filter for incomplete tasks or group by resource name. These functions currently require several clicks in Project 2007.Future versions of Project will give customers an easier way to customize fields. The current method is complicated and will eventually be replaced with a blank column that users can simply start filling in with any information they want. As soon as they do, a new blank column automatically appears. If a user inputs a dollar figure in the column, the rest of the column automatically configures for dollars.Steinglass also showed off enhancements that will come to Web access to Projects. If a user makes changes to several time frames for completing tasks, the application won&#39;t automatically update the overall schedule, so as not to slow down performance. When a user is done making changes, a Calculate Changes button makes the alterations, highlighting every item that has changed. Users can hit Undo repeatedly to get rid of changes.Microsoft doesn&#39;t even have a name for the next version of Project, so there&#39;s no time frame for when these features will become available. Project 2007 began shipping earlier this year, and some Project 2003 users say they&#39;re waiting for the first Service Pack release before they&#39;ll move to the latest version.Microsoft executives expect that Web access will become important in the future. Practically every user of Project will take advantage of Web access, allowing partners and remote workers access to it from online, said Mike Angiulo, general manager of the Microsoft Project business unit. Ballmer wagered that in five years, about 50 percent of Project customers would use a fully hosted version, with the rest using an on-premise server.Microsoft may also do some work enabling more access to Project from Windows Mobile devices. While there is a need for access to Project from mobile phones, users won&#39;t want the full version, Ballmer said. &quot;What you want to do is say what aspects of the Project experience are people going to want to take on the phone,&quot; he said. For example, people may want to check on the status of a project and input information from their phones, he said.Some existing functions already available let people use their phones to change tasks within Outlook and those changes will be replicated on the Project server, said Angiulo.On Monday, Microsoft said that in two or three weeks it will announce the ship date for Service Pack 1 for Project 2007. When pressed for more details on Tuesday, Angiulo said that it&#39;s on the same schedule as the release date for Office 2007. He added that the final code is being tested, an indication that release is imminent.
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At a conference for users of its Project software, Microsoft demonstrated a variety of features that likely will be in the next version of the project management application.
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Release makes use of technology from CodeWeavers to let customers run applications from Microsoft.
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Microsoft exec announces new tool designed to make patching simpler.
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Microsoft next month plans to distribute an updated beta version of its Visual Studio 2005 development tool that includes the first fruits of the company&#39;s ambitious initiative for team development.
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Microsoft unveiled a new product designed to more tightly integrate its back-end Dynamics business applications with its desktop Office suite.
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Microsoft have let the public use a beta of their tool for some months while testing continues. The last few days have seen a new release of the beta which seems to be getting closer to bringing back consistently sensible results.
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InfoWorld - A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.