software development

"Early milestone builds of Windows 8 have leaked onto the Internet, and considerable effort has been put into figuring out how they work. Though officially tight-lipped, snippets of information have escaped Redmond's walls. So far, it appears that Windows 8 development doesn't just look not bad...

Prof. Dr. Dieter Rombach studied mathematics and computer science at the universities of Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern. Since 1992, he has held the chair for Software Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, and since 1996, he has been Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for...

Herb Sutter introduces the Link Removed crowd (and the world!) to Microsoft's view on heterogeneous computing in the concurrency age and introduces one of Microsoft's upcoming technologies for democratizing GPGPU/APU/Multi-Core/Many-Core programming for native developers: C++ Accelerated Massive...

The PC may be finally liberated from the mouse and the keyboard. On Thursday, Microsoft began recruiting developers to build software that will bring motion and voice control to computers that run Windows 7. More...

Based on what Microsoft has shown so far, the Windows 8 tablet interface (or "tailored UI" in Microsoftese) will look and work a lot like Windows Phone 7. Source: Yahoo! News

If the company can avoid shipping late, it could go a long way toward saving Microsoft's bacon. Link Removed

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews There are some rumors about when Microsoft might ship its next major operating system. We're asking readers to answer when would be the right time for you. Tomorrow? 12 months? Longer? Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed...

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive and thoughtful. And, in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it’s finger-friendly. Source: Yahoo! News

IM an Expert is a publicly available Lync instant messaging question-and-answer service that enables users to find answers to questions by asking other users. Users can opt-in, and then the service harnesses the database of experts to connect people together via IM. In Part 2 of this series...

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering,® is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering...

How soon will Microsoft blow? There have been many analyses of Skype’s behaviour over the years (the most famous perhaps is from Link Removed - Invalid URL), but as far as Vulture Central is aware, nobody has yet gone so far as to reverse-engineer the whole kit-and-caboodle. That’s the...

President of Windows Steven Sinofsky demonstrates the next generation of Windows, codenamed Windows 8, at the tech confab in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky at his D9 speech showed the tablet-native interface of Windows 8 for the first time. Borrowing heavily from the tile-based interface of Windows Phone 7, it can show a user's apps as well as live widget-like tiles, contacts and other data. Everything is intended to be...

Windows 8 next year? Ballmer says... Source: Yahoo! News

Windows 7 has been a resounding success for Microsoft, helping to push customer satisfaction levels to an all-time high. The boys in Redmond aren’t resting on their laurels, however, and work on Windows 8 continues at a rapid pace. There’s been talk of Microsoft showing Windows 8 off at the...

While it is not June yet, its time to be prepared. We continue to provide the latest internal builds of vBulletin for all members on both http://windows7forums.com and Windows 8 Forums. These builds are still in development, but include fixes to the existing editor code we began running some...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed the next version of the company's operating system will be out in 2012. Link Removed

At a developers' conference in Japan, Steve Ballmer revealed two points about the next version of Windows. It's called Windows 8 -- at least now -- and it's coming out in 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

Even though we're at least a year away from Windows 8, Early builds of the operating system are still being picked apart. So far, there are a bunch of credible rumors floating around, including tablet integration and an app store. Source: Yahoo! News

Instead of trying to port Windows 8 on to the ARM chip, Microsoft should try doing something other than Windows and stop playing games. Source: Yahoo! News