Microsoft just shipped the latest release of BizTalk Server and is preparing to launch Visual Studio 2008 with .NET Framework 3.5, but it's already presenting a roadmap to its vision for application development tools coming over the next few years.

To encourage developers to write tools that work with its coming virtualization hypervisor, Microsoft Wednesday announced that it is making the applications programming interfaces (API) for its upcoming Windows Server virtualization hypervisor a part

At a conference called Interop, it only makes sense to have a keynote on interoperability. That call went to Tom Robertson, general manager of interoperability and standards at Microsoft, who spoke of the topic this morning at the show in New York.

After weeks of speculation, Microsoft and Facebook made it official Wednesday afternoon. The software giant has taken an equity stake in the social networking powerhouse and, in return, gets to expand its exclusive advertising deal to handle ads for

Microsoft's announcement Monday that it will not appeal the European Commission's (EC) antitrust ruling against it shows just how much has changed in the nine years since the case began -- not the least of which is the company's own priorities. Seasoned

As expected, California and a slew of other states this week filed a formal request with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to extend the oversight of Microsoft's 2002 landmark antitrust settlement until November 2012. Many of the settlement's

It was back to the future for Microsoft today. The company's chairman and co-founder Bill Gates took the stage here to help launch the company's Unified Communications (UC) software. In other words, he was here to talk phones. Gates told an audience

If you can't beat them, join them? That may well be Microsoft's mantra, as it joins the open source community today with the blessing of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). After weighing the software giant's license terms against 10 criteria defined by