After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft’s Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of ...

Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore. The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache ...

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With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...