What next for Embarcadero Delphi? Roadmap with Mac, Linux support published.

By tim, on May 16th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero has published an updated roadmap for its Delphi development tools: Delphi, C++Builder and the RAD Studio shared IDE. These tools combine the Object Pascal (Delphi) or C++ language with a visual component library and native code compiler for Windows.

Chief Technical Architect Michael Rozlog outlines four products which are being worked on, including

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Adobe’s campaign against Apple misses the target

By tim, on May 14th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Nothing better demonstrates Adobe’s concern about being locked out of Apple’s mobile platform than a huge advertising campaign attempting, one assumes, to win public support and pressure Apple into yielding ground.

Still, if you are going to run a big PR campaign it helps to be right. But Adobe seems to be arguing that

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Java versus C/C++ performance – which is really faster?

By tim, on May 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Cliff Click of Azul Systems has an excellent post on Java vs C/C++ performance:

Is Java faster than C/C++? The short answer is: it depends.

He then presents three categories of cases: the first C/C++ beats Java, the second where Java beats C/C++, and the third and longest, where C/C++ proponents claim Java is

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SharePoint 2010 web launch delivers blank web page

By tim, on May 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has suffered an embarrassing technical problem at the launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. The pre-launch publicity made a big deal of how this launch was both web-based, with the keynote streamed globally, and built on SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft’s global launch website http://www.the2010event.com for the 2010 suite of products was built

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Office 2010: the SharePoint factor

By tim, on May 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft Office 2010 launches today. I’ve been using the product since for some months, in beta and final form, and written a fair amount on the subject. Is it worth upgrading? There’s no simple answer. If you spend a lot of time working in Office, then even a small tweak might be worth the

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Linux users will need a Microsoft Office license to use Office Web Apps

By tim, on May 11th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Jeff Teper, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Office Business Platform, who runs the SharePoint engineering group. I asked him to clarify something has puzzled me: the licensing for Office Web Apps. From a technical point of view, Office Web Apps is an add-on for SharePoint; it does not require the paid-for

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Six abandoned features from the history of Microsoft Office

By tim, on May 10th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

With Office 2010 about to launch, it’s fun to look back at earlier Office launches, especially some of the features which were hyped as breakthroughs at the time, only to be dropped or hidden a couple of versions later. Here are six which come to mind.

Smart Tags

Smart Tags were the big new

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Adobe’s Kevin Lynch: we’re focusing on everybody else

By tim, on May 6th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I enjoyed this interview with Adobe’s Kevin Lynch from Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, where he talks about the Apple problem. Adobe has created a compiler for Flash that creates a native code iPhone application, but Apple’s latest developer agreement prohibits its use.

Lynch presents it as a matter of freedom. Software developers

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Exchange 2007: ESEUTIL beats the wizard

By tim, on May 6th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today I was asked to help find missing email in Small Business Server 2008, in other words Exchange 2007. Somehow, thousands of emails had disappeared from a user’s mailbox. They were there a couple of days earlier, so we restored a backup. The procedure is nicely explained by John Bay. You restore the Exchange

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Word 2010 ugly font bug in .doc format

By tim, on May 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve come across what looks like a bug in Word 2010. I generally do not send documents in the new Word .docx format, because it can cause problems for the recipient; I prefer to use the old .doc format. I’m also averse to the multi-colour default style set in Word, and generally change it

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