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Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal
Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. Read more »
Microsoft safe from Google in apps: Gartner
Microsoft shouldn't be worried about Google's move into the enterprise applications space — but Microsoft is shaping up to be more of a challenger to Google's online ads business, according to Gartner. Read more »
Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP. Read more »
Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »
Nokia switches on Microsoft's Silverlight
Content developed for the software giant's alternative to Adobe's Flash will be able to be viewed on Nokia smartphones. Read more »
Google Web storage coming soon?
Google's much-rumored online storage service should be available in a few months, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cites unnamed sources. Read more »
IBM brings relational XML tools to mainframes
IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments. Read more »
Microsoft readies business applications update
Microsoft plans to release a new version of its business-management applications next month that includes a bevy of new features, including customer extranets and personalised business reports. Read more »
Microsoft gets hip to AJAX
Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics. Read more »
Microsoft pretties Office for business apps
Office Business Applications is meant to encourage third-party application providers to write code that will integrate closely with Microsoft Office applications. Read more »
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Take advantage of Microsoft's Application Blocks for .NET
Application Blocks for .NET include source code and sample applications. Take advantage of these tools and get a head start on your next project. Read more »
Easily utilise Microsoft Word functionality in your .NET application
Microsoft Office may be utilised in .NET code via .NET and COM interoperability. Create more powerful applications by integrating the many functions available in the Word products into your application. Read more »
Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#
Although mentioned as an afterthought, X# has been the subject of much speculation in the XML community, and justifiably so, because it may change the way you create applications. Read more »
Use Microsoft Office in Linux? You can now!
The majority of administrators and users who are reluctant to switch to Linux blame the lack of applications. That excuse no longer holds water now that CodeWeaver has found a way for Linux to run Microsoft Office. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Use Oracle 10g Single-Sign-On with .NET applications
Configure Oracle 10g Single Sign-On to work with Microsoft .NET applications and achieve better integration. Read more »
Build next-generation applications
Reduce time to market and meet the requirements of Web-aware applications by adopting one or both of the new virtual machine standards. Read more »
Why VB6 still matters
Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »
SQL Server applications
Get the most out of your application development efforts by familiarising yourself with SQL Server. Follow these guidelines to build better applications. Read more »
First Look: Aspose.Excel
If you are developing an ASP.NET application and need to deliver information to Microsoft's Excel format, Aspose.Excel offers the solution. Better still, it's Australian made. Read more »
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Making Windows Live services more open
Angus Logan describes how Microsoft is opening its web applications with more APIs Read more »
Charney: Customers the biggest hole in Microsoft's security
Microsoft customers need to better authenticate applications they install on their PCs, so the next challenge for Microsoft is to figure out how to provide that information, according to Scott Charney, the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
Charney: App vendors are the weakest security link
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
Developers break the designer egg: Microsoft
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg. Read more »
RSA 2008: Microsoft outlines Internet security strategy
At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie describes a new plan for Internet security that includes the creation of a trusted stack. Each element can be authenticated, from the operating system to applications, people, and data. Read more »
A deeper look at surface computing
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ZDNet director Josh Taylor looks at Microsoft's new surface computing platform, which includes applications for drawing, interacting with media, and manipulating photos that are instantly taken from a digital camera. Read more »
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Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5
-- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »
Going the extra step but not the extra mile
-- I've always been a big fan of going the extra mile with error messages, it's a good way to show that you actually care about the product to take the time to customise it even when things are amiss -- and yes, things will go wrong, you will not create the perfect application. Read more »
VMware shows how not to do it
-- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
Microsoft's Surface goes to Vegas
-- This might not be what Bill Gates originally envisioned with his "information at your fingertips" concept, but in Las Vegas, the Rio hotel will unveil a new Surface computer application called Flirt, that will let bar patrons "interact" with each other through video cameras and text messages. Read more »
Windows XP's last hurrah
-- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »
Google to allow third party code in Gmail?
-- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »
How soon is Semantic?
-- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »
Clusters bucking Microsoft's desktop dominance
-- The latest TOP500 shows that you can takes Microsoft's percentage in the desktop space, invert it and you have the percentage of supercomputers using Windows. Read more »
Top 25 open source projects at Microsoft
-- Microsoft has consistently lowered the bar for developers, and Codeplex seems to be doing a good job of doing the same thing for open-source development on the Microsoft platform. Read more »
Microsoft's two faces of SharePoint
-- One way or another, proprietary and open-source companies need an answer to SharePoint. Content is the center of the enterprise ecosystem, when all is said and done. SharePoint is Microsoft's answer for controlling the next decade of IT. Read more »
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Microsoft prescribes more RESTDetails have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »
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With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »
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Spellr.us needs a new dictionaryOne of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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