Microsoft's December Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the Windows Vista client OS features a renamed version of the company's anti-spyware software. Announced on Monday, the December CTP, known as build 5270, will reach about 500,000 people through avenues such as the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet, according to the company.
Microsoft, IBM, and SAP are discontinuing the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) project for Web services on January 12, according to Web-based bulletins from the three companies.
IBM Rational plans to enhance its application testing tools with support for Visual Studio 2005, Tivoli, and SAP.
Microsoft has made available an updated beta release of its Windows Workflow Foundation technology. The release is built to work with the general release, this week, of the Visual Studio 2005 toolset.
Focusing on the familiar theme of developer productivity, Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is unveiling its Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 development tool, featuring a visual UML modeling interface. The tool will be provided free to Sun Developer Network subscribers.
Although disappointed by product delays, Visual Studio 2005 beta users are nonetheless pleased with the product's feature set, noting enhancements in areas such as ALM (application lifecycle management) and Web development.
Microsoft on Monday is releasing an upgrade to its free WSE (Web Services Enhancements) package for Windows developers, focusing on security.
Seeking to enable multilayered transactional applications, BMC Software is introducing an addition to its Control-M product family that links batch-management systems to processes executed via Web services, messaging and Java applications.
Sun Microsystems is seeking to revamp the way in which security is executed in Java and wants developers to try to break the new paradigm to gauge its effectiveness.
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its three-tiered certification program for IT professionals and developers, with the intent of aligning credentials to specific job roles and the company's technology road map.
Power in computing has shifted from proprietary, Microsoft APIs to URLs on the Web and content provision, Google Vice President Adam Bosworth said during the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo on Friday.
Raising the stakes in the SOA arena, IBM on Tuesday is announcing its acquisition of XML network equipment maker DataPower, with the goal of helping companies improve performance and management of business processes in SOA environments.
Microsoft on will this week release the third beta version of its Team Foundation Server (TFS) software for application lifecycle management, a Microsoft representative said.
Microsoft this week unveiled its Centro product plan, which is intended to make it easier to administer networks in midsize businesses. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill interviewed Steven VanRoekel, director of Midsize Business Solutions Strategy at Microsoft, about Centro.
Borland Software on Tuesday announced an upgrade to its JBuilder IDE. But the future of the commercial IDE market is clouded, with Eclipse providing base technologies for free.
