Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new version of its SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) toolkit and said that the forthcoming version of Windows will natively support SOAP. Version 2.0 of the ...

WHENEVER I THINK about soap, my mind inevitably travels back to my youth. One of my siblings was always adept at placing just the right amount of the sudsy stuff into park water fountains around town.

Back in June 2000, I went to Microsoft's Forum 2000 event in Redmond, Wash., where the company rolled out its strategy surrounding SOAP and the .Net platform. It was Microsoft's first big step toward ...

Seriously, the "Days of our Lives" writers couldn't come up with this stuff if they tried. Just when everything was starting to seem all warm and fuzzy between Microsoft and the open-source community, ...

Who says European politics is boring? I’ve been following the Microsoft/ EU/ European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes soap with great interest. Definite highlights: the 899 million euro fine ...