Darryl K. Taft

HOUSTON – Microsoft maintains that partners selling hybrid cloud-based solutions benefit from higher gross profit, more new customers, higher revenue per employee and faster overall business growth, according to a new study. The study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC featured 1,300 partners and indicates that adding cloud services to their mix […]

IBM recently announced that wehkamp.nl, one of the Netherlands’ largest online retailers, will use IBM cloud-based merchandising analytics to manage markdown pricing to better meet customer demand and improve profitability. With the addition of this solution, wehkamp.nl takes advantage of IBM’s cloud suite of marketing and merchandising solutions, resulting in a more personalized shopping experience, […]

Touting its latest version of Internet Explorer, with its many new benefits, as possibly the best browser available, Microsoft is attempting to shore up those claims with new testing tools for the new release. Microsoft announced that with the release of Internet Explorer 11 Preview as part of the Windows 8.1 Preview, the company has […]

Atlassian Software, a provider of collaboration software for development teams, next week plans to announce the availability of Bamboo 5, its continuous integration and delivery server. Scheduled for release on July 9, Atlassian’s Bamboo 5 connects the process of preparing and testing software with the process of releasing it. However, Bamboo does more than just […]

The Outercurve Foundation, an open-source software foundation founded by Microsoft, announced its selection of Jim Jagielski, a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), as its new president. Jagielski, who co-founded ASF and remains a member and director of the longstanding open-source organization, also has been instrumental in the evolution of Outercurve, which sought him […]

Microsoft has announced new volume licensing options for enterprises to get specific versions of the company’s Windows Embedded 8 operating systems. As of July 1, enterprises can take advantage of a new volume licensing option to obtain systems—the technology that powers industry devices within the intelligent systems, the company said. “As enterprises increasingly look to […]

IBM recently announced strong client and business partner support for the new version of its DB2 database software. Now generally available, the new software—which represents the work of hundreds of IBM developers and researchers in labs around the world—adds IBM’s hot new BLU Acceleration technology that makes it simpler, more economical and faster to analyze […]

While Microsoft was lavishly announcing the release of a preview of the latest version of Visual Studio, its .NET-based integrated development environment (IDE), at its Build 2013 developer conference, true to form the Eclipse Foundation quietly announced the availability of the latest release of its annual release train, this one known as Kepler. Kepler, also […]

Microsoft announced that PreEmptive Solutions’ new PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, which means PreEmptive’s instrumentation capability and configurable rules engine will be part of Microsoft’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE). Dotfuscator CE, which has been included with every version of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2003, prevents […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft included a little something for every type of developer at its Build 2013 conference, including those building systems for the Internet of Things. At Build, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows 8.1 Preview, which the company said underscores the opportunities for developers and partners throughout the ecosystem to execute on the company’s […]