Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix have announced the availability of FreeBSD support for Windows Server Hyper-V. This collaboration, announced at BSDCAN 2012 in May, will help more customers adopt virtualization and move toward cloud computing, said Doug Mahugh, a senior technical evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, in an Aug. 9 blog post. Microsoft said […]

Microsoft is €œall in€ with crime prevention and counterterrorism as part of a new partnership between the software giant and the New York Police Department (NYPD) aimed at keeping the Big Apple safe with an innovative new system based on Microsoft technology. At an Aug. 8 press conference at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative headquarters, […]

Google has developed Leak Finder, a new tool to help Web application developers find memory leaks in their JavaScript programs. Google’s Chrome team created the tool, as memory leaks can be common in browsers-particularly some versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, developers say. A memory leak occurs when a computer program consumes memory but is unable […]

Opera Software has announced the expansion of its U.S. operations with a new office in Silicon Valley. Officials with the Oslo, Norway-based software maker known for its browsers said commuters on Silicon Valley’s US 101 highway will notice a large new Opera logo atop a shiny office building in San Mateo, Calif. Opera Software’s new […]

Mozilla has released a preview of its Remote Debugger for Android available in Firefox 15. The Remote Debugger lets developers connect Firefox Desktop to Firefox Android so that they can use a nice, roomy desktop monitor to troubleshoot JavaScript running on a mobile device, according to Kevin Dangoor, product manager for developer tools at Mozilla. […]

BMC Software announced its acquisition of VaraLogix, a maker of software that automates deployment and configuration management for .NET and Java applications. BMC officials said the company expands its DevOps portfolio with the VaraLogix buy and its application release automation software, which makes it easier for IT to more quickly and efficiently deliver applications with […]

Microsoft has successfully rolled out Windows 8 to more than 30,000 internal users€”a prime example of what the company calls eating its own dog food. Microsoft’s experience might be held up as an example to enterprises looking at migrating to Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10, as a key Microsoft official involved in the project […]

August 1 Microsoft releases Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to manufacturers. The company also releases Windows RT (also known as WinRT) to manufacturers, according to reports and sources. However, Microsoft has not officially confirmed if WinRT has shipped. August 1 Microsoft announces the completion of the final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET […]

Dell announced that its systems supported the landing of NASA’s new Mars rover Curiosity. Dell systems played a key role in the most complicated portion of the mission, with data analysis conducted in two NASA high-performance computing (HPC) clusters running Dell PowerEdge servers. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., the Mars […]

Microsoft has announced its new Windows Phone Dev Center, the new online home for Windows Phone developers. In a blog post, Microsoft group program manager for the Dev Center Ash Wahi said the new developer destination is €œan evolution of our retired App Hub developer portal.€ Wahi said the site is designed to provide everything […]

Curiositys First Color Image of the Martian Landscape This view of the landscape to the north of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing. (The team calls this day Sol 1, which is the first Martian day of operations; Sol […]

Liferay, maker of an enterprise-class, open-source portal, has announced the public launch of Liferay Marketplace, a new marketplace that offers more than 70 enterprise tools and apps developed by Liferay. As part of this launch, Liferay also invites independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers to begin developing apps for Liferay Marketplace. Availability of third-party apps […]