Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Corp. is moving to help C++ developers take greater advantage of the .Net platform, while easing the way for Visual Basic .Net developers at the same time. On the C++ front, Microsoft is working through Ecma International, the Geneva-based standards organization, to push the development of a standard set of language extensions that create […]

Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group Plc. have announced a partnership aimed at driving mobile Web services and merging the worlds of PCs and mobile devices. At the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva on Monday, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates teamed up with Ian Maxwell, group strategic relationship […]

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the release of its Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, which can help developers build applications for the Microsoft .Net environment. The new tools enable developers to create solutions in a familiar environment that take advantage of Microsofts Visual Studio .Net 2003 and the .Net Framework, the company said. […]

At the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva next Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to make announcements touting momentum behind its Java developer and consumer portals. Sun is expected to announce that the java.net Web site, a collaborative community for developers, and java.com., Suns consumer-focused portal, have grown considerably since […]

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it is working through ECMA International, the Geneva-based standards organization, to push the development of a standard set of language extensions that will create a binding between the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard C++ programming language and Microsofts Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Microsoft and ECMA officials said with a […]

Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are making nice and agreeing to extend the period through which Microsoft will support its Java Virtual Machine. Under the agreement announced Tuesday, Sun and Microsoft have agreed to extend Microsofts maintenance agreement for its Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) until September 30, 2004. This move enables users of […]

Jeremy Allaire is hoping to transform the way people exchange information on the Internet. In an interview this week, Allaire, the technologist-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners and former chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc., told eWEEK he had only hours before launched a proposal for something he called RSS-Data. “I wrote up a proposal, which […]

IBM has used the combined resources of IBM Software Group, IBM Global Services and IBM Research to develop a set of tools and services to help customers modernize and transform legacy applications. The three groups, company executives said, worked together to deliver the application modernization offerings, which will provide end-to-end solutions and services to modernize […]

NEW YORK—While open source is viewed as the movement to bring the power of software development to the people, some major proponents of the space say the most innovation is accomplished by a core group of developers. Speaking at the RVC Softedge 2003 conference here, Marc Fleury, president of JBoss Group LLC, an Atlanta-based company […]

Several OASIS members announced Monday the formation of a technical committee with an eye toward creating a global Web services framework for deploying multiplatform Web services worldwide. The newly formed OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) FWSI (Framework for Web Services Implementation) technical committee—which includes Sun Microsystems Inc., RosettaNet, CommerceNet and Yellow […]