News Items

The European Commission has notified Microsoft of worries around antitrust for the upcoming Windows Vista. They are threatening to bring a new case to bear if Microsoft "includes software elements which are currently available separately".

Has Bluetooth finally "made it"? Nokia, Intel, Microsoft and others have decided to use Bluetooth to send high quality video between devices in the home using Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio technology at speeds up to 100 megabits per second.

Microsoft will be delaying permanent release of the "Eolas" fix to all ActiveX in Internet Explorer to give developers time to update their Web sites.

Want to know about Atlas (Ajax for ASP.NET), but don't want to search for information? It's all here.

Connect to Oracle databases from Visual Studio 2005 and/or .NET Framework 2.0.

Geologists in Iceland are drilling directly into the heart of a hot volcano. How hot is that?

Find out just what you'll need to run Windows Vista well, or just run. At least you'll have time to buy the new system.

News for Wednesday, March 29 2006

Hope you don't live in one.

An external user took control of the address after Google employees accidentally deleted the blog.

Should Microsoft drop some backward compatibility? Is it really to blame for "Windows slowness"?

HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are on the way, but will consumers figure the differences out?

IBM introduced a new intrusion detection technology dubbed Billy Goat that claims to be highly effective in battling worm viruses and other types of malicious IT threats, and in eliminating false security alarms.

A new Corning development could lead to cheaper LCD screens made without the use of arsenic.

Find out what's new in Office 2007, and sign up for the Beta. You know you want to.

Thinking about Team System, but think you're too "agile"? Now you can use both with this scrum add-in.

If you're using SQL Reporting Services, these report packs will make your reporting on IIS, Great Plains, Sharepoint and other services easier.

Latest release of Firebug, an excellent JavaScript debugging tool for Firefox.

News for Tuesday, March 28 2006

Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes.

At its Convergence conference here this weekend (and through March 28), Microsoft offered a detailed look at the next version of Dynamics AX, formerly known as Axapta, and announced a new partner tool, Rapid Implementation Methodology for Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision.

Upcoming "Publish" feature for ASP.NET. Now with incremental deploy!

Latest release of "Business Process Management" software now on MSDN Universal downloads, and heading to manufacturers.

Microsoft has joined the group that would vote to standardize Open Document Format (ODF), a competitor to their own Open XML used by the next version of Office.