
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

Microsoft Defender identifies Google and Zoom as malicious
The Windows native security app had "gone rogue" and was misidentifying legitimate URLs as malicious. This...

Google further expands functionality of education solutions
Google for Education recently released some updates with new functionality for Chrome and Workspace. These ne...

The jobs most at risk to generative AI like ChatGPT
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI, generative artificial i...

‘Microsoft works on a successor to Windows Core OS named CorePC’
Microsoft might have pulled the plug on Windows Core OS. The succesor Windows 10X never saw the light of day....

Salesforce settles with activist shareholder, does peace return?
Salesforce is engaged in a hefty battle at the board level with several activist shareholders. These believe ...

Twitter feed will only show verified accounts
In a recent tweet, the Tesla CEO announced that Twitter will only display verified accounts on your personal ...

Visa and MasterCard are potential buyers to acquire fintech Pismo
In a move that signals its ambition to expand into cloud-based banking and payment services, Visa is reported...

Elon Musk now values Twitter at only $20 billion
The valuation is a far cry from the $44 billion Musk paid to buy the company. A report in the New York Tim...

Freshworks gives AI assistant Freddy generative features
Freshworks has provided its built-in AI assistant Freddy with generative AI features based on ChatGPT. Freddy...

Microsoft fixes aCropalypse privacy bug in Windows 11 Snipping Tool
The bug allows information from a cropped image to be recovered and viewed. Microsoft appears to have fixe...