Erin Joyce

Microsoft has unveiled Windows Rights Management Services software, its first-ever rights management system for the Office suite that helps customers protect information in Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents and the Outlook e-mails from slipping into the wrong hands. Office 2003 is the first suite of applications enabled with the RMS system, which is available to customers […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft’s pre-beta version of its Visual Studio .NET platform, “Whidbey”, is offering a trove of new simplified tools and features that should make developers jobs easier, while giving Microsoft critics new fodder, attendees at the Professional Developers Conference here said. “What we are hearing from developers on Visual Studio .NET is that […]

LOS ANGELES — Chatter about the new WinFS storage system in the next version of Windows (“Longhorn”) is boosting the developer buzz-meter at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference. Of all the new features they have now seen in pre-betas of Microsoft’s next generation tools such as “Whidbey” Visual Studio, developers who spoke to internetnews.com say relational […]

LOS ANGELES — LogicLibrary, a maker of metadata software for UDDI Web services catalogs , has released what it calls the first asset discovery engine for developers using the Microsoft .NET framework to consolidate and integrate applications. Short for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, UDDI is a Web-based distributed directory that enables businesses to list […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates kicked off the company’s developers conference with pre-beta demonstrations of its next-generation Windows operating system featuring advanced graphics, live “broadcasts” from one computer to another and built-in Web services. “I believe this is the decade where digital devices will be a part of our […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates is slated to kick off the company’s Professional Developers Conference here Monday with an overview of its latest pre-beta Windows operating system and how it advances the company’s .NET platform strategies. Gates is speaking to attendees as Microsoft prepares to take the wraps off […]

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference taking place in Los Angeles between Oct. 26th-30th is considered one of its most important in close to a decade. Not since the mid-1990s PDC, when Microsoft turned itself on a dime in order to catch the Internet/Web wave that followed the splashy IPO and launch of Netscape’s browser has a […]

Microsoft is expanding its select list of developers who get to peek at the source code of more recent Windows operating systems, a move that expands its “Shared Source” program of giving governments and partners limited access to the code of its key products. Analysts see the expansion of the “shared source” list as another […]

Time Warner’s profits jumped in the third quarter of 2003 thanks to strength in its cable and network results, which helped to offset continued weakness in the media giant’s AOL online unit. Net income for the formerly named AOL Time Warner during the quarter was $541 million, or 12 cents per share, compared to a […]

The developers of the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) are working to live up to their global billing by forming a new technical committee of the OASIS international standards consortium. The first order of business of the newly-formed OASIS ebXML Business Process (BP) technical committee, members said, is to further define the royalty-free ebXML […]

When Microsoft kicks off its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles Oct. 26th-30th (http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/agenda.asp), the event will in many ways mark a major shift in transparency about its core products, as well as a major victory for a subtle public relations build-up ahead of the event. That’s because when the software giant hands out […]

America Online is joining the growing discount market for no-frills Internet access with a $9.95 a month service planned for early in 2004, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Netscape-branded service will be a “significant entry into the market” for lower-cost Internet access, the source told internetnews.com. And, since it would be […]