
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

With Windows 10 ending, Microsoft hopes to boost Autopatch adoption
With the end of support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, in sight, Microsoft has published a guide for org...

NiCE acquires German AI startup Cognigy for $955M
US software supplier Nice is acquiring German AI company Cognigy for $955 million. Cognigy, based in Düsseld...

JetBrains details deeper mechanics of Junie coding agent
Coding agents are coming and software application developers are variously concerned, perniciously perturbed ...

Linux 6.16 released, Torvalds fears delay for 6.17
The stable version of Linux 6.16 has been released. According to Linus Torvalds (photo), the last week of the...

Anthropic unveils audit agents to detect AI misalignment
Anthropic is developing AI agents that independently perform alignment audits on language models. This signif...

Broadcom customers with perpetual VMware license face patching issues
VMware customers who use perpetual licenses but no longer have an active support contract will not have acces...

Slack is evolving into a work operating system
Slack wants to be the glue that ties organizations together

Alphabet, IBM, and SAP results fail to impress investors
Major tech companies are reporting solid quarterly results, mainly thanks to their investments in artificial ...

DeepL Voice expands: new languages and Zoom Meetings integration
DeepL is significantly expanding its real-time translation solution DeepL Voice. The company is adding additi...

Scale-up inforcer raises $35 million for growth in SME market
US scale-up Inforcer has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round. The investment is led by Dawn Capita...