seventeen-year-old female hacker calling herself Gigabyte/Metaphase is taking credit for writing the first-ever virus written in Microsoft's newest programming language C#. The virus, identified Monday, targets the .NET framework through a worm comprised

Despite its much-popularized mistrust of the open source model, Microsoft Corp. inched another step in that direction Thursday with an expansion of its Shared Source Initiative, a program which gives access to the Windows source code to certain customers

On Wednesday morning, Microsoft released a new security enhancement for Visual C++.NET and Visual C++ 7 to prevent source code from buffer overflow attacks. Hours later, a Dulles, Va.-based software risk management outfit was on the phone with Microsoft

The .Net train just keeps building up a head of steam on its course to dominate the way businesses and consumers will run their applications in the future. Web services are a next-generation platform, using XML, that allow companies to integrate systems

A slew of technology firms leaders Thursday forged the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to facilitate to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable Web services across a variety of platforms, applications and programming

With the general release of Visual Studio .NET approaching next week, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday put in place the final piece of its Java User Migration Path (JUMP) to .NET strategy: a beta 1 release of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JCLA) tool

With all of the bluster about Web services being bandied about, XML interoperability consortium OASIS Monday said it has set up a committee whose focus is to create a standard that will allow the plug-n-play of visual Web services with portals or other

A federal judge is forcing Microsoft Corp. to release a new version of Windows that will incorporate Sun Microsystems Java programming language. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz said Microsoft has 120 days to build Java into Windows. Motz decided