An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.
XML-based protocols, or Web Services, are gaining popularity. But expanded use means greater concerns over security. Additional reading: Web Services 101
Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.
Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."
These days content management systems are more than just workflow tools,"they can perform essential Web site functions. What options are available for businesses?
Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software.
Before it gets crowned as technology's next big thing, David Litwack says Web services must solve one of IT's biggest problems: integrating decades-old systems built using different technologies.
As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.
Microsoft says beta testing for Office 12 begins in November. Also, the company gets 120,000 requests a month from people who want to save their Office documents in PDF format, making it one of the most requested features.
At a recent conference, Microsoft laid out its strategy for enabling developers to create next-generation location-aware applications.
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