Coming soon after the company's recent bid for Yahoo, Microsoft says these product enhancements will bridge the developer-to-designer workflow gap and help to build more interactive applications for the desktop, the web and mobile devices.
The company outlined plans for three graphics programs: Acrylic Graphic Designer, a painting, illustration and effects tool that combines vector-based and bitmap abilities; Sparkle Interactive Designer, a tool for application developers to design...
Microsoft acknowledged that it needs an update to its server OS at some point that will be ready to interact with PCs running Longhorn, a major revision to the OS that introduces a new file system and presentation engine, among other major changes.
Microsoft is delaying the release of its forthcoming SQL Server database and Visual Studio.Net development tool in a move that could deprive customers of upgrades they were expecting. The company said on Wednesday that it has decided to push out to...
IBM has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development programme. DB2 developers already use Visual Studio - Microsoft's application for software developers - to create other Windows-based applications.
The Windows Presentation Foundation uses DirectX to take advantage of your 3D graphics hardware to convert the 2D windows surfaces into textures that can be rendered onto the desktop. It's been called DirectX 10, Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0...