I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

One of the things I've found interesting in the development world over past few months is how modern applications are moving back to placing more of the intelligence in the client instead of the ...

Call it the revenge of the Windows client — or the revelation of Microsoft’s three new technology pillars. Longhorn, the forthcoming version of Windows, made its first public outing at last week’s ...