They also have requested that the program be expanded, Matusow said, asking in particular for access to the main applications in Office, Microsoft's widespread productivity package and the most common vehicle for creating text documents.
The combined company can offer a fuller suite of cross-platform products for building document-oriented applications and 'rich media' web applications. Today, analysts expect the upcoming presentation environment in Windows - which includes an XML...
Arousing a great deal of interest from developers, it purportedly has the ability to make applications written in any language .Net compatible, leading to comparisons with Java. Microsoft's new programming language to write .Net applications.
The assumption," continues Brown, "was always if you wanted to write a server application for NetWare you had to write an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module). Until Novell could deliver two things - critical mass and cross-platform support - NDS would...
The library allows teams of developers to work on different parts of the same program, helping them to share code, avoid duplication, maintain multiple versions and repeatedly build complex applications.
In April, Microsoft posted its Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge.net, following up a month later with the posting of the Windows Template Library (WTL) project. Microsoft is to dip a third toe into the open-source waters, adding a...