Preview of the developer suite

Microsoft prepares to march into Adobe territory with its forthcoming suite of graphics and web development software.

Active Query Builder ActiveX Edition is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-...

Editor that builds and displays XAML documents for WinFX

Microsoft expects .NET to take the development platform crown from rival J2EE, relegating the current leader to academia and other niche markets in favour of what it sees as the 'easier' alternative.

The arrival of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (ES2K3) is a significant event in the history of this product. First, it brings to a close the second era of the codebase. Released back in 1996 on the NT 4 wave, ES4 (there was no 1, 2 or 3) brought enterprise-level email, contact management, diary management and so forth to the Windows Server platform in a new and comprehensive BackOffice application.

It was touted as the next big thing from Microsoft. But is Microsoft’s storage strategy in tatters?

HDV support and seven video tracks make this a massive upgrade, but only for the plus version.

Create visual compositions in real-time. Smode Studio is a software for composing and manipulating ...

In conjunction with several of their other top-of-the-line software application upgrades, discreet have released the long-awaited combustion 3. Unique in some of its features and price point, combustion seems to have been searching for its market-place slot. Sharing the code, tools and quality of its bigger siblings, flame, inferno and smoke, combustion has, in the last two years, pulled its price down from 10 thousand dollars to around two thousand.

It sets out to create photo-realistic 3D models from 2D photos and illustrations, with the barest of tool sets and minimum user input.

Create professional music mixes, in minutes

Director 8 Shockwave Studio is now the platform of choice for those sites determined to provide the richest possible Web experience

High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

We've searched every corner of the web for the most useful (and useless) sites you've never seen. Download free movies and music, find the cheapest shopping sites, get a degree, make money, walk on Mars and much more.

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.