This week, I share some speculations and observations about Exchange Server's future (and therefore, our future) and some general observations about Microsoft .NET...
Last spring, when I first heard that Microsoft was prepared to serve us a brand new data-access layer called ADO.NET (formerly known as ADO+), my first thought was, "It's always the same story: Redecorate the house at the end of the fiscal year...
Within 2 weeks of releasing its Commerce Server 2000 product to manufacturing, Microsoft secured several high-profile deployments that lend credibility to the company's e-business plans. Radio Shack, Clarus, Starbucks Coffee, and Henry Schein were...
At the "VSLive!" industry trade show for Windows developers last week, developers received beta copies of Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft's core tools for developing software services that target the .NET platform. The company...
I'm always interested in seeing things done differently than I would approach them. Not only do I learn from the experience, but often I find a simpler way of doing things...
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced Visual Studio for Applications (VSA), the company's upcoming set of technologies that will provide the customization capabilities for next generation .NET-based distributed applications. VSA, which will largely...
Allaire Corporation and Macromedia, two leaders in Web design and development tools, announced this week that they would merge in a transaction worth approximately $360 million. The merger will create a company which will retain the Macromedia...