Java tops list of software skills in demand: employer survey

Demand is hottest this year for Java developers, new survey of 1,200 hiring managers shows.

Blog posts | January 8, 2012 9:23am PST
Microsoft ships emergency .NET fix to thwart hash table collision attacks

Microsoft .NET is one of several programming languages vulnerable to elevation of privilege attacks.

Blog posts | January 3, 2012 5:59am PST
Microsoft releases out-of-band security update to plug .NET hole

Just in time for the new year, Microsoft released a rare out-of-band security update, its 100th of the year. The update represents "holiday heroics" for the team that sacrificed Christmas to plug...

Blog posts | December 29, 2011 11:41am PST
Will .NET join Java on the doom train?

Java's travails have been well documented. Could .NET also suffer a similar fate?

Blog posts | June 19, 2011 9:50pm PDT
Software dev budgets picking up: It's still a .Net, Java world for now

Microsoft's .Net and Java are still winning the software development bake-off, but enterprises and SMBs are increasingly eyeing rich browser interfaces and open source frameworks.

Blog posts | April 13, 2011 3:22am PDT
Everybody hates browser applications

Exposure to the limitations of the new browser-based help system for Visual Studio 2010 made me realize a fundamental truth: people hate browser applications, which is why web developers work so...

Blog posts | April 27, 2010 6:45am PDT
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4 generally available as of April 12

It's launch day for Visual Studio 2010, and Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 generally available for purchase as of today, April 12.

Blog posts | April 12, 2010 4:41am PDT
Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer just became a Windows Phone developer'

Microsoft officials promised more details about the company's Windows Phone 7 development strategy would be revealed in mid-March at its Mix 10 conference. But those details already have begun to...

Blog posts | February 18, 2010 6:51am PST
Reinvigorating Microsoft's mobile strategy

Microsoft needs to make a phone that's worth programming for. Once achieved, however, Microsoft should try to act like the past 20 years spent collecting the leading lights of framework design...

Blog posts | November 30, 2009 5:05am PST
Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5

Everything else is expected to work with the new Firefox except .Net, so it's ready not just for download but ready to be pushed out with notes to all clients urging them to get it?

Blog posts | August 17, 2009 4:44am PDT
Harnessing a multicore future

Last week's PDC was about more than just Microsoft's new cloud initiative (Windows Azure) and the next version of Windows (Windows 7). It also concentrated on what Microsoft is doing to assist...

Blog posts | November 3, 2008 10:32am PST
Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and used in both...

Blog posts | September 7, 2008 7:48am PDT
Iceberg for students: developing made simple

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the enterprise side of Iceberg, check the post over at Enterprise Alley (that's right readers, I'm cheating on you). Some bits are the...

Blog posts | September 7, 2008 7:47am PDT
Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET

The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has set its sights on the run-time arena and will...

Blog posts | March 17, 2008 8:54am PDT
European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probe

European antitrust regulators are kicking off two new Microsoft antitrust investigations, one of which involves of products and technologies for which Microsoft allegedly is withholding...

Blog posts | January 14, 2008 7:48am PST
Microsoft Volta - a cool new RIA technology

I heard about Volta last week and to be honest, I had no idea what it was. "Tier-splitting" sounds interesting but I wasn't sure how it would be used in the real world. The blogosphere soundbyte...

Blog posts | December 11, 2007 6:07pm PST
Microsoft creates GWT clone

While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for...

Blog posts | December 5, 2007 5:12pm PST
Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolset

Microsoft is making available a first, publicly available test build of a developer toolset that allows programmers to write Web applications using existing .Net-based tools and languages. That...

Blog posts | December 5, 2007 11:00am PST
Visual Studio 2008 has shipped

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 were released yesterday. As far as Microsoft development tool releases go, this one is particularly important, as it is the first version of Visual Studio that...

Blog posts | November 20, 2007 1:26pm PST
de Icaza: .NET source code release a non-event for open source world

Microsoft's release of .NET classes under its shared source license will not benefit the Mono project or any other open source project, maintains Miguel de Icaza, Novell's vice president of...

Blog posts | October 5, 2007 1:01pm PDT