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 response to the Feb. 7 column by Bill Joy, "Microsoft's blind spot": It's clear to me that there is some level of misunderstanding in parts of the information-technology community about Microsoft's ...

COMMENTARY--NET is a difficult technology to explain to non-programmers because .NET is developer-oriented technology. Many of the features of .NET don't make sense unless you know a lot about ...

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 ...

Once viewed as the nemesis of open source — and probably still seen that way by some — Microsoft on Thursday nonetheless continued its week of gestures toward the open source community. At its Build ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has generated so much hype about .NET that many are wondering whether the software giant’s technology for connecting information, people, systems and devices can live up to its billing. .NET ...

Microsoft’s open-sourcing of server-side .Net technologies is a big step for the longtime king of proprietary desktop software. But the move itself is of limited impact, and .Net has a long way to go ...

Microsoft Corp. and antivirus and security firm McAfee.com Corp. said today they have set up an alliance that will see McAfee incorporate some of Microsoft’s .Net technologies into its offerings.