The Microsoft .NET initiative is all-encompassing, ever-present, and in certain ways, brand-new—but the underlying technologies have been with us for some time. In this article, we’ll explore the ...

In a move few would have ever imagined coming to pass, Microsoft is open sourcing more of its .Net developer framework and programming languages. Company officials announced the move on April 3 at ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Open-source fans announce the first steps in an effort to reproduce Microsoft's .Net technology so people can use it without Microsoft's involvement. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained ...

But times have changed. Today, Shiah's career path finds him at the helm of his own software firm, Ascentn, a business-process management (BPM) vendor in Mountain View, Calif. Despite an abiding love ...

The frequency with which Microsoft has changed database access technologies is remarkable, with each new scheme offering the promise that .NET developers have finally arrived at a long-term solution.

SAN DIEGO, California-- The cold war between Microsoft and the open-source world has thawed a little more following an announcement that the widely popular Apache Web server will support Microsoft's ...

.NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle, a new technology that enables enterprise developers to more easily integrate applications built on the Microsoft .NET Framework with Oracle databases. The ...