Officially, Microsoft won’t reveal its strategy for Windows Phone 7 developers until the Mix conference in March. Unofficially, it looks like Silverlight, XNA, and .Net will play key roles. A source tells ZDNet: “The dev platform is Silverlight 3, plus elements of 4, using Blend and a Visual Studio add-in.
In last month’s roadmap session, Oracle said that it planned to combine Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM; now it has added some details to those plans during a recent Webcast. Oracle’s Mark Reinhold, a former Sun employee, said that the company plans to continue developing both
Since it’s inception last September, the CodePlex Foundation has accepted only Microsoft projects, including the Orchard Project and the ASP.Net Ajax Library. The Microsoft-back organization, which intends to bridge the gap between software companies and open-source communities, announced Wednesday that it has accepted Headspring’s MVC Contrib project. The project doesn’t
In a survey of enterprise and SMB IT executives, Forrester Research found that the bad economy has led many companies to put off buying upgrades for existing applications. This year, those organizations plan to spend their software dollars updating existing apps rather than purchasing new ones. “Despite all the hype
To understand how deeply social media has become engrained into the heart of modern Web and even world culture, you only have to imagine the world in the year 1999 where there was no MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or Meetup, and the only social spaces online were creepy Craigslist encounters. The