A growing number of companies are looking to capitalize on an emerging niche in business software called Web services management. Start-up Actional on Monday will seek to bolster its position among ...

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

update WASHINGTON--A high-level Sun Microsystems executive on Tuesday told a federal court that Microsoft feels threatened by the industry's move toward Web services and is hard at work trying to ...

Microsoft this week is scheduled to plug a major gap in its perimeter security software by integrating a partner’s XML filtering and acceleration technology into its firewall and caching server. The ...

As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer, officials said. The forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web ...

Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT) aims to produce the majority of its new products outside of China as early as next year, while ...

Microsoft is set to retire Exchange Web Services (EWS) on October 1, 2026, after which it will WS requests from non-Microsoft apps to Exchange Online. The change won't impact EWS in Exchange Server, ...

The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security ...

NEW YORK — IBM and Microsoft Corp. staged a demonstration here yesterday to show how the advanced Web services specifications they have developed will make it easier for companies with disparate ...

In an attempt to ensure consistency in the development of Web services, IBM, Microsoft Corp. and San Jose-based BEA Systems Inc. will announce tomorrow a software group designed to promote existing ...

Shrink-wrapped software is dead. Long live software as a service. That's likely to be the 2001 battle cry of software vendors. Many of them spent 2000 laying the groundwork for writing, deploying, and ...