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Microsoft shows off Silverlight 4's feature list at PDC

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Microsoft to open up compilers for Visual Basic, C#

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Microsoft adds app, data marketplace to Windows Azure

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JetBrains upgrades Ruby IDE

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Adobe offers upgrades for Flash and AIR

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Why developers like SharePoint 2010

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Microsoft open sources .Net Micro development framework

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Klocwork tunes software code analysis suite for agile projects

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Amazon Web Services offers .Net development kit for its cloud platform

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Microsoft developer technologies take center stage at PDC

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Implementations of the dynamic language leverage popular platforms to broaden its appeal... more

Extensions to .Net are featured on DevLabs site... more

Microsoft counts 5,000 SDKs shipped for 18-month-old Surface touch screen system ... more

dynaTrace AJAX Edition provides client-side timings, profiling... more

Privacy expert says the NSA could build backdoors that enable tracking users and intercepting communications, but security researchers dismiss the idea ... more

Oracle's imminent acquisition of Sun could strengthen Java -- or cripple it ... more

Microsoft drew upon real-world usage data to make its latest Office suite the most efficient version yet... more

The technology will feature improved startup times and more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser ... more

Language improvements for multicore processors also promised... more

Cloud platform expanded to take on rivals such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft says at PDC ... more

Cloud Server Enterprise Edition works with VCenter, Xen, or Amazon Web Services and can be used to run databases, app servers, and Web servers... more

RubyMine 2.0 features improvements in refactoring and code analysis, as well as a set of tools for code changes in software projects... more

The company stressed that it is bringing the full desktop Flash to mobile devices... more

Integration with Visual Studio is one change that makes SharePoint much easier to develop collaboration apps, developers say... more

Version 4.0 has been released under the Apache 2.0 license, but the TCP/IP and cryptography stacks were not open sourced... more

Version 9.0 of company's Insight Pro product features collaborative code review... more

A quick tour of InfoWorld's top picks for 2009's most significant up-and-coming technologies for business... more

Software builders can leverage services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in their .Net applications... more

At the Professional Developers Conference next week, Microsoft will cover a range of efforts from cloud computing to programming languages... more

Product manager preps extension developers for public beta release in December... more

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