Darryl K. Taft

WASHINGTON—In an eventful day in court, Microsoft Corp. refuted evidence that its Java policies and product plans upset a close partner, defended itself against claims it put words in a witness mouth, and demonstrated the accessibility functionality of its operating system. The software giant had lots of ground to cover in its third day of […]

At its Mobility Developer Conference in London, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced the beta release of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, a development environment that extends the companys .NET strategy to handheld devices and delivering on its mission to deliver Web services and rich computing on most any device. The .NET Compact Framework delivers XML Web […]

Attorneys for the non-settling states in the Microsoft remedies trial continued to attempt to discredit the software giants expert economist Wednesday by stressing his former relationship with Microsoft and use of different data to make his analyses. Steven Kuney, an attorney representing the non-settling states displayed evidence that Microsoft expert economist witness, Kevin Murphy, a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The non-settling states in the remedies phase of the Microsoft Corp.s anti-trust trial were on the attack Tuesday, berating the companys first witness, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chairman and CEO Jerry Sanders, in the morning, and then portraying Microsofts key economic witness as a inconsistent and unreliable in the afternoon. Although Microsoft […]

Bowstreet Inc. this week is rolling out the fifth generation of its flagship Web services product, which enables developers to build adaptive Web applications that assemble and reassemble themselves based on customer needs. Bowstreet Factory 5 delivers more than 100 Bowstreet Builders, which the company describes as “virtual programmers” that create the core of the […]

WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. concluded its cross examination of the states final witness in its anti-trust remedies trial and immediately asked the judge to dismiss the case for lack of evidence. The software giant asked for dismissal first as a matter of law, claiming the non-settling states “failed to meet their burden of proving causation […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday announced it has re-branded all of its iPlanet applications, Forte tools, Star Office and Chili!Soft product lines under the Sun Open Net Environment(Sun ONE) brand name. Hal Stern, CTO of Suns iPlanet division, said the move integrates Suns key technologies for delivering Web services under the Sun ONE platform, which is […]

Only one day after announcing a new Web services security specification, IBM on Friday rolled out new security features in its Web Services Toolkit that support the specification. IBMs Web Services Toolkit (WSTK) 3.1, which is now available for a free trial download on IBMs alphaWorks site at www.alphaWorks.ibm.com, provides implementations of the SOAP (Simple […]

NEW ORLEANS—The future of XML-based Web services is one of high security and high availability, according to Microsoft Corp. executives. Speaking to developers at its TechEd 2002 conference here on Thursday, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of .Net Enterprise Servers, and Pat Helland, a senior architect in the Redmond, Wash., companys enterprise server division, said […]

NEW ORLEANS—For Microsoft Corp., the story on its Web services strategy is steady as she goes. At its TechEd 2002 conference on Wednesday, Microsoft said momentum is strong for its Web services initiatives, with new partners coming on and new technologies being built around its core .Net technology. In a keynote speech, Eric Rudder, senior […]