Applications
Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
Timeline
Mozilla tries to quell turmoil, promises AI ‘kill switch’
Update December 19: Following controversy over future AI features, Mozilla promises that Firefox will allow a...
Global outage at Snowflake caused by incompatible update
Snowflake users worldwide experienced serious problems this week after a recent update introduced errors in t...
IFS aims for automated warehouses with acquisition of Softeon
IFS's ambition is to make warehouse management a largely automated process. To achieve this, the company is a...
Expert Talks
The year of the AI agents: why 2026 is about value, not technology
Microsoft has declared 2026 to be the year of the agent. This is not because the technology is only now becom...
Kubernetes v1.35: more secure, more flexible, no more ingress-nginx
The Kubernetes project has launched version 1.35 under the code name 'Timbernetes'. The release introduces 60...
Top story
Basware makes Invoice Lifecycle Management accessible to more and more organizations
Basware announced today that it has acquired Redmap. This Australian company adds interesting new potential t...
Microsoft tests Windows 11 26H1 update with new features
Microsoft has made a new test version of Windows 11 available to participants in the Canary channel of the Wi...
Nvidia acquires SchedMD, developer of workload manager Slurm
Nvidia has acquired SchedMD, the company behind the development and maintenance of Slurm, an open-source work...
ServiceNow seals Moveworks deal to fuel its agentic ambitions
ServiceNow has completed its acquisition of AI company Moveworks. It paid $2.85 billion for the startup, whic...