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Introduction Around mid-nineties, the migration from 16-bit systems to 32-bit systems was in full swing. The benefits were very clear, but unfortunately, the move caused hair pulling for many developers as they needed to learn new memory models, new API functions and changed pointer arithmetic. In the present day, we are facing a similar situation […]

Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it’s investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer (IE). The flaw could be used by attackers to inject malicious code onto victims’ PCs, said Maurycy Prodeus, the Polish security analyst with iSEC Security Research who revealed the vulnerability […]

Microsoft called its internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators A Microsoft-owned business and two other small online companies, complained to the European Union regulators about Google’s operations there, as well as fighting a plan by Google to digitize millions of books, currently under scrutiny by the Department of […]

Users never embraced its bland interface, sluggish response time and businesslike menus that required lots of clicking to perform tasks. In Barcelona, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore spoke of getting past “the PC metaphor of icons” on phones. Microsoft’s new smartphone software, Windows Phone 7 Series, turns a phone into something akin to an electronic butler that […]

Businesses are seeing the importance of social networking sites like Twitter and LinkedIn. Microsoft has planted it’s flag squarely in the social media playing field by incorporating social networking features into Microsoft Outlook. Outlook is used by more than 500 million users and with this move, is attempting to turn Outlook into a hub of […]

Introduction .NET Developers and users have grown accustomed to applications like Microsoft Word that save temporary copies of a document while it is being created and edited, and offer the user the option of recovering these documents in the event of a crash, hang or system restart caused by patch installation. Windows Vista provides a […]

Introduction This is my eleventh year writing the VB Today column for codeguru.com. According to my Editor that makes me the longest running columnist (that he knows of). My day job is technical evangelist for Developer Express. What makes the job great is I love the tools and use them daily. It is easy to […]

This new version, built on Windows Server 2008 R2, is called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 and is configured to let multiple users access a server simultaneously from multiple screens. Microsoft is marketing Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 for environments with many users working on similar tasks, such as labs, classrooms and libraries

Business Productivity Online Suite Federal’s services include Exchange, SharePoint, Office Live Meeting and Office Communications, and are hosted from special facilities to meet the particular needs of federal agencies. Physical access to the site will be controlled with biometric systems, and the only people who will be able to access the facility will be U.S. […]

“We have no plans to acquire EA,” Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. “They remain a very important partner to us. No acquisitions.”Spencer declined to comment on whether it had held talks with Electronics Arts on such a move.ior vice president of the Microsoft Developer […]

As developers, we all make assumptions when programming. Perhaps the biggest assumption we make is that those libraries and tools that ship with the .NET Framework are the best way to accomplish a given task. For example, most developers assume that using ASP.NET’s Membership system is the best way to manage user accounts in a […]

Areas such as cloud computing, the Web, parallel computing, devices, and agile and distributed development are just some of Microsoft’s investment priorities In setting its investment priorities, Microsoft is being mindful of an increasing number of choices developers have in programming styles, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in a […]