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Microsoft Rolls Out New Look for Office, Vista

LOS ANGELES—Attendees at Microsofts Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday morning got to see the first live public demonstration ever of Windows Vista and Office...

The Burden of Protection

As machines evolve, they put more effort into protecting themselves against their users, not always to the individual users satisfaction. But the measures are...

F5 Buys WAN Player Swan Labs for $43m

F5 Networks last week announced its planned acquisition of WAN optimization and application acceleration provider Swan Labs in a $43 million cash deal.F5, which...

Rivals Jockey for IDE Foothold

As the battle for supremacy in the integrated development environment space settles down to two primary camps, Microsoft Corp. is in for a strong...

IBM Donates Code to Katrina Effort

Recent natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami have forced insurance companies to respond quickly to clients needs. To aid in...

Developers Redefine Abstraction Demands

With Microsofts Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles filling much of my agenda for the rest of this week, this seems like a good...

Salesforce.coms AppExchange Offers Application Sharing

At its Dreamforce 05 user conference in San Francisco this week, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff detailed the next wave in on-demand computing...

Vista Creates Developer Opportunities

Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista operating system will deliver a series of enhancements that developers can tap to build more reliable systems, the company said. At...

Microsoft to Give Away Code at PDC

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. will be handing out software at its Professional Developers Conference here this week, including a beta of its upcoming tool for...

Iona Joins Eclipse for SOA Project

Iona Technologies Monday announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer and member of the organizations board. The Waltham, Mass., company also...