
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

Apple wants to invest to catch up on AI
Apple CEO Tim Cook (photo) said Thursday that his company is prepared to spend more to catch up with competit...

Atos is on track with its Genesis plan: is the company recovering?
A drastic course correction under the so-called Genesis plan was meant to allow Atos to recover from years of...

Figma raises $1.2 billion in successful IPO
The American software company Figma raised $1.22 billion in its initial public offering on the New York Stock...

Microsoft’s Q4 impresses shortly after major layoffs
This year, Microsoft laid off roughly 25,000 employees. It clearly did not do so based on its quarterly figur...

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...