Microsoft Woos Hobbyist Developers
News Through the new programme, additional offerings will include a full version of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, along with selected boards from participating hardware vendors, at a discounted price.
[April 16, 2008, 16:20]
Windows Forms To Go Open Source?
News Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft’s Shared Source programme, said there are many products being evaluated on a case-by-case basis for inclusion in the programme. Windows Forms is a programming model used with Microsoft's Visual Studio tools...
[February 8, 2005, 14:30]
Microsoft Refuses To Delay Visual Studio Further
News In the original suggestion, a customer said that Visual Studio 2005, which had a second beta programme in April, has too many bugs and performance problems. Through a feedback form on the Microsoft Developer Network Web site, developer customers...
[August 16, 2005, 9:50]
Microsoft Offers Free Developer Tools To Students
News In a speech to be delivered later today at Stanford University, chairman Bill Gates will give details on the DreamSpark programme's free downloads, which include full professional versions of Visual Studio 2008, the Expression Studio design tools...
[February 19, 2008, 17:25]
Microsoft Coders Get Bug-checking Tool
News The cool thing with the integration with Visual Studio is that, because it's there in your face, you run it early and you run it often," said Michael Howard, senior programme manager for Microsoft and the author of the company's textbook on secure...
[February 10, 2003, 9:20]
Sun Reveals Rave Date
News Sun Microsystems will begin a broadly available testing programme next month for its forthcoming Java Studio Creator, which is a Java development tool designed to woo away Microsoft programmers. Java Studio Creator will include a developer licence...
[March 30, 2004, 9:05]
Ballmer Unpacks New Developer Tools
News For those of you on the IT side of the house, this is where we really come to the fore with Dynamic Systems Initiative," Microsoft's systems management programme, he said. Those include Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a planned addition to the...
[May 25, 2004, 9:15]
Microsoft Lifts Curtain On Next Visual Studio
News The software giant last week said it will delay the release of Visual Studio 2005 until the first half of next year and will begin a test programme in the coming months. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to give a keynote presentation on...
[March 18, 2004, 8:15]
Microsoft Shows Code To 'trusted Users'
News MVPs were already given access to some Microsoft source code, including components of Windows CE .Net and Visual Studio .Net, but under the new programme, they will gain access to Microsoft's core Windows operating system code, including Windows...
[October 23, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft Lays Groundwork For Longhorn
News As part of the tools roadmap, Microsoft announced changes to its partner programme that are designed to make it easier to integrate third-party tools with Visual Studio.Net. The software maker plans to release an update to its Visual Studio.Net...
[July 30, 2003, 8:50]
Mass Tests Of SQL Server 2005 Finally Start
News Microsoft began a wide beta-testing programme of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Monday, a much anticipated -- and delayed -- product central to the company's server software line. A third beta programme is planned for the second half...
[July 27, 2004, 10:40]
Microsoft Simplifies Shared Source Programme
News Microsoft has simplified its programme for sharing source code in an effort to work better with third parties. Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative is a programme to allow third parties, such as other software companies and large customers, to see...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Redmond Hails Lifecycle Security Programme
News A programme placing strict controls on developers to ensure they build secure code is showing early signs of success, according to a senior executive from the software giant. The programme — known as the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) — is...
[September 2, 2005, 16:05]
Microsoft Goes Dynamic With Systems Management Tool
News Also at the IT Forum, Microsoft said that it has started a wide-scale beta testing programme for its Windows Update Service for sending out Windows patches, and that its Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 product and Virtual Server 2005 software...
[November 16, 2004, 15:45]
IBM Lures Students With Free Software
News In a statement, IBM said funds earmarked for the university outreach programme will be made available to institutions that "support open standards and seek to use open-source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes".
[July 21, 2004, 10:00]
Microsoft To Partners: Change Or Become Obsolete
News He also noted that an early access programme for Live CRM, which kicks off this quarter, is only available through partners. Microsoft plans to launch that product, as well as the next version of its SQL Server database and Visual Studio developer...
[July 11, 2007, 8:55]
Visual Studio 2005 Ships On Limited Release
News In addition, Microsoft on Thursday detailed a limited-time "migration pricing" programme meant to attract customers of competitive databases. The company said that its SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 tools are available to...
[October 28, 2005, 9:15]
Oracle Signs Up To Microsoft Developer Scheme
News The companies said that Oracle has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio partner programme and that later this year it will release a free software download for Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net 2003 development tools.
[May 21, 2004, 8:30]
Vendors Snuggle Up For Microsoft PDC
Blog Oh no, Microsoft takes the pre-show (or day zero) programme pretty darn seriously and there won’t a moment’s rest if the PR gang have anything to do with it. Microsoft is clearly pleased to see its so-called partners save up their pennies to roll...
[October 27, 2008, 7:37]
Salesforce.com Forges Closer Links With Office
News It has also created sample code for Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft System and will host a directory of Office add-on applications. Salesforce.com launched the Sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office on Wednesday, and it includes free...
[February 2, 2005, 16:45]
