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Microsoft splits Office duties
With Steven Sinofsky moving to head Windows development, Microsoft has said it will split its Office development in two units and has named executives to head each one. Read more »
Microsoft hires Gentoo Linux founder
Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular Linux distribution to educate its in-house developers about open source. Read more »
MS, Adobe war in blogosphere
Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »
Chills at Microsoft's security huddle
Microsoft likes to keep its friends close -- and now that security companies are its foes, it may well want to keep those even closer. Read more »
Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna
Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna. Read more »
Ballmer reveals Microsoft's biggest threat
Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer rates customer inertia ahead of open-source software and search titan Google as Redmond's greatest competition. Read more »
Developer defies MS demands to kill .NET debug tool
UK developer Jamie Cansdale seems to have ignored calls from Microsoft that he remove a free tool called TestDriven.NET from his Web site, despite legal demands that the tool be removed by June 1 -- because it breaches licensing conditions. Read more »
Ruling threatens developers' wallets
In a ruling that could force royalty fees on some developers working with Microsoft's SQL Server 7 data-management software, a Washington state judge said Microsoft could not sublicense another company's patents to SQL Server customers. Read more »
Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application
Developers will be able to create collaborative applications based on Office products, which Bill Gates claims will make them easier and more familiar for end users. Read more »
Brisbane hosts TechEd 2003
Code cutters around Australia have gathered in Brisbane for Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd Conference, to be staged from 10-13 August. Read more »
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Is Redmond losing touch with its developers?
Could recent decisions by Microsoft mark the beginning of a mass defection by developers worldwide? Read more »
The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history
While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »
Tech.Ed Australia 2003
Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »
Eclipse emerges from Microsoft's shadow
Here's why Eclipse is clearly on track to take over from Visual Studio as the leading tool platform in the industry. Read more »
TechEd 2003: Delegates have their say
Event organisers will always claim their event was a runaway success so Builder AU decided to ask the delegates at TechEd 2003 what they thought. Here is what they had to say. Read more »
Check out these Web development tools from Microsoft
Many are often overwhelmed by the number of development tools and options streaming out of Redmond. Here's a rundown of the current Microsoft products that are available for building Web-based applications. Read more »
Model-Driven Development today
Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »
Macromedia's DevNet available to Aust developers
In a move similar to the creation of MSDN, Macromedia Australia has launched DevNet, a subscription service for its products, exclusive developer resources and online licence administration. Read more »
Where will the Visual Basic 6.0 developers go?
You love Visual Basic 6.0, but .NET is breathing down your neck. Do you go VB.NET or C#? Here are some common post-VB6 myths disspelled. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
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Model Driven Development
Ron Jacobs explains how Model Driven Development can improve a developer's approach to testing GUIs and what the future has in store for Model View Presenter Read more »
Looking forward to IIS7
We caught up with Eric Deily and Eric Woersching to discuss the new modular IIS7 and the features that developers can look forward to. Read more »
The missing LINQ
Coming out with the next version of Visual Studio and .NET, LINQ is a new feature that allows developers to iterate through data sources using an SQL-like syntax. Read more »
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Is software development international?
-- A quick glance across the developer agenda for the next couple of months sees a number of our industry favourites hosting the European versions of some of the events and meetings that have been staged stateside this summer. Read more »
Microsoft's Web strategy at Tech.Ed
-- This week I'll be stepping back into the official Builder AU team to cover the annual Microsoft Tech.Ed developer conference that is being held just down the road from the CNET Australia offices in Sydney.
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Vista a step closer
-- Last week, Microsoft released its Windows Vista February 2006 community technology preview (CTP) on MSDN for beta testers, partners and developers.
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Is Jobs hiding OSX 10.5 features from Microsoft's Vista?
-- Many commentators have been unimpressed with the new features Apple outlined at their developer's conference this week. Are they hiding new 'secret' features from Microsoft or are they running out of ideas to enhance the desktop? Read more »
Microsoft says "open sesame"
-- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »
Weekly Roundup -- 3rd August 2007
-- Welcome to the new Weekly Roundup. We continue to recap the last seven days and point out the stories that were interesting and thought provoking. Read more »
Mixed Emotions
-- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »
Live Aussie Vista Launch
-- Live Blogging from the Australian launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the MCA in Sydney. Read more »
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Startup Camp Sydney: The reviewThree new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
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Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funny
When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »
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Club Builder: Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox
In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing.
