There is life beyond .NET, says Microsoft
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Rest of world discovered The acceptance of new abstract concepts can sometimes be harmful to entrenched philosophical (and marketing) positions. Microsoft's announcement this week that it is to bolster the business process management (BPM) software market is an admission that there are parts of the world which are not wholly Microsoft.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. partners introduced to the company&#39;s software-plus-services strategy this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) applauded the plan, though they noted a few challenges as the company makes the transition from selling business software to offering more hosted and Web-based services.
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PC Magazine - Opinion: Microsoft's open-source pledge is a good step.
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Microsoft enters the home stretch for completion of its next-generation OS.
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BOSTON -- MicrosoftÂ Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer addressed a gathering of software industry leaders here on Wednesday, touting his company's vision for a bright future, while casting doubt on alternatives to his company's Windows operating system, in particular Linux.
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Progress can be seen in security enhancements being made to Windows Server 2003, says Microsoft&#39;s CEO. By Associated Press. Microsoft Corp.
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Running 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system is a step closer to reality.
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Microsoft is working on a declarative programming language meant for end users, rather than developers, ZDNet reports.
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A little history here.  Microsoft first invented COM  as a cross-language object model.  This was a precursor in some ways to .NET and still has a great deal of valuable functionality.  Its pretty simple.  You just define an IDL (interface definition language) and then if you have a runtime or compiler that supports COM you can call functions on an object (component) written in another language.  Mozilla XPCOM (Cross Platform COM) is similar in goals. You can write a component in C++ and then call its functions from Javascript.  It also works the other way around but isn't used as much.  This makes Mozilla a very powerful platform.  You can write a XUL extension and then use the internal com ...
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft is planning to add the ability to develop Windows Live applications to its Visual Studio toolkit as a way to build more of a developer base for its online services platform. The company is adding controls to Visual Studio 2008 that will allow developers to connect Windows Live services to new applications they're building, said Adam Sohn, a director in the Online Services Group at Microsoft. The company is currently testing the technology internally and may also include it in the current 2005 version of Visual Studio, but that is yet to be determined, he said. A public beta of the technology is expected in October or November, Sohn said. Details of the Windows Live toolkit first appeared online a public interview posted on the LiveSide blog with Angus Logan, a Microsoft technical program manager. Microsoft Monday confirmed that the interview was done at the Mix U.K. '07 conference last week. In the interview, Logan indicated that Microsoft would discuss the technology at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas in early November. Windows Live is the brand name for set of Web-based services -- such as search, instant-messaging, e-mail, blogging, and photo-sharing -- Microsoft offers, but the company also considers Windows Live a development platform in the same way its Windows OS and Office applications are a platform, Sohn said. Microsoft has made APIs for those services available on its Windows Live developer site. Microsoft has been savvy over the years in leveraging its large developer base to bolster new technologies and help the company compete in areas where it does not have first-mover advantage, and the area of online services is no different. Microsoft is chasing Google for online advertising dollars and hopes to use Windows Live services to compete. Microsoft also charges $.025 per user per year for developers that use Windows Live services in applications that have more than 1 million unique users per month, Sohn said. Sohn said that while the business case for growing the developer base for the Windows Live platform is obviously important, Microsoft also hopes to encourage the development of cutting-edge Web applications to help the industry as a whole promote more interesting user experiences on the Web. "Over time if the industry is doing better, we're going to do better as well," he said.
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Microsoft can change.  Just give it a few more decades.
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In the U.S., Microsoft will offer training vouchers, migration products and online tech support to NetWare users considering a switch.
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Microsoft chief provides a few more details on company's effort to build a set of services in the Internet cloud.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) announced another entry in its line of .NET development tools, adding Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition to the mix.
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New .mobi and .jobs, a shift in the ownership of .net
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The success of alternative Web browsers could push Microsoft to more aggressively leverage its dominance of Internet client software, said Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape.
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Microsoft aims to bring programs and technology to underserved markets through its Unlimited Potential initiative.