Soft to create a single web services infrastructure covering everything from component connectivity and enterprise integration, through to office productivity and Active Server Pages. Soft ASP product is renamed to Sun ONE Active Server Pages and...
Those programmers "have been pushing us to drive a level of ease-of-use and productivity that, to be blunt, Microsoft set the bar for, with Visual Studio", he said. Its simpler interface is designed to let developers assemble programs more by...
Beyond the new products, Ballmer focused on familiar themes, such as Microsoft's recent advances on the security front, increasing partnerships with rival software makers and improving efficiency and effectiveness for developers.
The main cost difference, said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, is determined by the amount of time it takes to develop applications or ensure the security of servers, the networked computers that store data, crunch numbers and serve up web pages.
Ballmer touched on four themes during the keynote address: "new work scenarios" made possible by better mobile software; lowering the cost of IT operations; Microsoft's advances in improving security; and applications platforms, including planned...
As we provide animation tools to bring static pages to life, there's always a danger of over-use in the same way we saw with Flash during its early days," said Microsoft's Smith. But given time, I'm sure best practices will develop and, if there is...
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