A couple of years ago Simone Chiaretta did a survey of .NET Developers usage of Ajax. I just saw that he is refreshing that survey to see what has changed in the industry. Are people still actively moving to Ajax? Are they using MVC or WebForms with their Ajax?

Software development tools-maker Iron Speed, Inc. has released Iron Speed Designer Version 6.1, the latest version of its Web 2.0 application generator. Iron Speed Designer generates rich interactive data entry and reporting applications for .NET. The new source control file detection ...

As the desire to deliver rich web content and functionality has increased over the last decade, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies have become increasingly powerful. This whitepaper provides a quick tour of the ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit from Accusoft Pegasus, while de...

Nearly half of all IT decision makers, developers, and architects report that they use Microsoft .NET as their application technology platform on which to run their applications. Until now the .NET Framework has only been available on Windows. The ability to run ASP.NET and other .NET ...

SL Corporation has announced that the new release of SL-GMS Developer and Custom Editor for .NET supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Software vendors delivering specialized editors for real-time displays to the manufacturing industry are now able to provide drag-and-drop ac...

Microsoft is going to feed projects from its CodePlex open source project hosting site automatically into Black Duck’s open source KnowledgeBase repository. Black Duck’s software keeps track of the use of open source components in mixed-source development projects. The CodePlex project...

By all accounts – including the Wall Street Journal – Microsoft’s fabled remake of its search engine is supposed to make its public debut at the Journal’s D7 coffee klatch next week in California. Code named Kumo, Japanese, we’ve been led to believe, for both spider and cloud, Microsof...

Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, the epicenter of the movement that wants to destroy Microsoft, have sent a joint letter to the American Law Institute (ALI) protesting its draft Principles of the Law of Software Contracts meant to guide judges in interpreting licensing agreements. ...

Autonomy Corporation plc has announced that Autonomy Interwoven LiveSite, a next-generation dynamic content delivery engine, is now available to Microsoft .NET customers. By deploying LiveSite with Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Microsoft customers can now tap into...

Despite last week’s report that Microsoft wouldn’t even show up, it’s now said that it’s going to its antitrust hearing in Brussels next month. It’s reportedly going to paint Google, which is one of the complaints, as the boogeyman to spook a European Commission already worried about G...

Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte confirmed at TechEd Monday what everybody has long since figured out: Windows 7 will make it into the stores in time for the holiday sales cycle. But Microsoft needs to make it to the shelves for back-to-school sales; it needs the money. Enter Steven Sin...

This is a year of firsts for Microsoft: its first wide-scale layoffs, its first drop in quarterly sales and earnings, and now its first debt offering. It sold five-, 10- and 30-year bonds Monday and raised $3.75 billion on the strength of its Triple-A credit rating from both Moody’s an...

Comodo's LivePCSupport for Businesses allows PC users to open a chat window with an expert technician. The Comodo expert can address many PC issues online, day or night, even weekends and holidays. If the browser balks when a small business owner is researching an important proposal, i...

It's all just a guessing game right now but on Wednesday the European Commission is expected to levy a capital fine on Intel of somewhere between $600 million and $1.6 billion, possibly the largest single penalty the EC regulators have ever exacted, more than the combined fines Microso...

A hearing date of June 3–5 has been set for Microsoft to offer oral arguments against the European Commission’s browser accusations that bundling IE with Windows is a prima facie antitrust violation. Paidcontent.org, however, says Microsoft may skip the hearing and simply bend its neck...

Microsoft has posted both the public release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate and the beta XP Mode (XPM) add-on, the virtualized rendition of XP that Microsoft made so users of the new operating system can run XP apps, well, so at least the premium SKUs of Win7 can, provided they hav...

Buried under the buzz around Windows 7 RC release, here’s an important update from Microsoft - Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first Windows operating system to be offered for only 64-bit processors. And Windows Server 2008 R2 can now suppo...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out an all-hands e-mail Tuesday morning saying that the company was about axe more of the 5,000 people that it said in January it would lay off by the middle of next year. When Microsoft announced its first wide-scale layoffs ever, it immediately cut 1,...

Ingeniux Corporation has announced Cartella, an application for managing enterprise social content and online collaboration. Cartella is the first unified social content management application that integrates social networking, Web 2.0 tools, analytics and content management into a si...

BakBone Software has announced that it has acquired certain assets from Asempra Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in Santa Clara, Calif. Asempra develops real-time data protection and recovery solutions for Windows applications and file system data. Under the terms of ...

"Listening to our partners and customers has been fundamental to the development of Windows 7," said Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows business at Microsoft. "We heard them and worked hard to deliver the highest quality Release Candidate in the history of Windows. We h...

Microsoft recently announced the quarterly recipients of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real world expertise wit...

Microsoft has cut a cloud deal with EDS - the consultancy now in HP's hands - that it figures could be worth more than a fluffy $3 billion in cloud and professional services to the two of them. It didn't say over what period of time but by way of insurance - because sales are kinda in ...

Alin, the points you are making are very reasonable, and are largely due to being a service in Community Technology Preview (CTP) rather than a launched service. Unfortunately some of your questions we are not able to answer while still in this mode, but will be resolved as we reach c...

After more than two “azure” months, with lots of new stuff to learn, a whole new alphabet soup to digest and a dozen or so Microsoft evangelists trying to navigate us through the plethora of “cloud services” that seem to pop up every day from Microsoft’s software-making machine, I beli...

This educational webinar from Novell will provide .NET ISVs with an overview of how to port .NET-based applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise. Mono is the open source, cross-platform .NET application framework. Sponsored by Novell, it provides all the necessary software to develop and r...

HP has blended its Insight Control suite with Microsoft’s System Center, a k a ICE-SC, to create what it calls the industry’s first integrated management environment, a perch it will occupy until its rivals copy the move. It’s supposed to lower infrastructure costs and improve uptime. ...

This educational webinar from Novell will provide ISVs with an overview of the UNIX application porting process to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This tutorial will cover the required steps to successfully port your applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise including Application Scoping, Portin...

Windows 7 is going to virtualize XP so 7's pretty much completely compatible with XP. Microsoft says there's a secret XP Mode (XPM) for its new rep-redeeming operating system that hasn't been part of any beta code or even disclosed before that's "specifically designed to help small bus...

The official Release Candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers from April 30, according to the Windows Team Blog, but public availability won't begin till May 5th.

What happens when your cloud provider has multiple datacenters and has the ability to move your code around based on their need (read: not your need)? One thing that any enterprise IT buyer knows how to say is “who’s throat do I choke?” When you have a composited application, who exact...

In Moscow when the Oracle-Sun news broke, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters that he was “very surprised” and that having just heard about it, he needed to think about it. Evidently they didn’t warn him ahead of time. Having thought about it for a couple of days, he told the Amer...

Microsoft's in some amount of pain that it blames on the recession and deteriorating spending and says it doesn't expect things to get better this quarter, maybe longer, maybe into the next calendar year, a forecast it's made before.

Lower operating expenses narrow revenue gap in difficult economic environment.

This webinar from Novell will provide Linux ISVs an overview of the Linux Standard Base (a working group of the Linux Foundation) and a tutorial on how to easily port applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise using such tools as the Linux Standard Base Database Navigator and Linux Standard...

People who use Google's free e-mail service, People who use Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, may be getting more than they bargained for, according to a story in today's edition of the Windows Secrets Newsletter. Contributing editor Scott Spanbauer reports that a vulnerability in ...

Now is the time for Independent Software Vendors to join the SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program. In this white paper, you will learn how you can expand your market and your partnership with Novell by developing on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 while benefiting from the services and r...

There’s been quite a bit of chatter on the web about Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Obviously I’m excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling. There will be no shortage of guessing...

Back in March of 2004, Eric Lippert of Microsoft explained in his “Fabulous Adventures In Coding” blog how Microsoft divides the developer community into three groups, each which is designated by a personality. Apparently, this is a practice recommended by Geoffrey Moore in “Crossing t...

Microsoft's Azure Services Platform is a cloud platform (cloud computing platform as a service) offering that "provides a wide range of Internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the Internet" - Microsoft's first step into cloud computing based on its ...