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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 »

Microsoft changes Web development methods

Live Labs will be headed up by an ex-Yahoo researcher, and looks to step Redmond's Web development up a gear. Read more »

Microsoft posts tools' source code

Microsoft published the code for one of its products on an open-source software development Web site departing from its hard-line stance against revealing code to the public. Read more »

Microsoft to offer peek at new tools

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse this week of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. 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 »

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

An introduction to agile methods

Confused about development methodologies? In his first article for Builder Australia, tech columnist Steve Hayes sheds some light with his introduction to agile methods. 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 »

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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 »

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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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Microsoft's Web strategy at Tech.Ed

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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. Read more »

Vista a step closer

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Last week, Microsoft released its Windows Vista February 2006 community technology preview (CTP) on MSDN for beta testers, partners and developers. Read more »

Microsoft says "open sesame"

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- 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 »

Is Jobs hiding OSX 10.5 features from Microsoft's Vista?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

Weekly Roundup -- 3rd August 2007

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- 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

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- 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

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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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    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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