
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

Google finally puts an end to Hangouts
Google Hangouts has been phased out. Following an announcement by Google earlier this year, Hangouts users wi...

Google ends support for JPEG XL in Chromium
Google will phase out JPEG XL from Chromium. The format has been supported from February 2022 onwards, but Go...

Shopify acquires Remix to improve UI design functionality
Shopify acquired open-source tool Remix to provide additional design functionality to customers. Shopify h...

Mozilla fixes freezing issues caused by new Windows 11 feature
Mozilla resolved a problem that caused Firefox to freeze when copying text on Windows 11 devices with the Sug...

Visma acquires education software vendor Datapass
Visma acquired Datapass to expand its activities in education. Datapass provides planning, control and monito...

A new open-source tool scans AWS S3 buckets for exposed secrets
A new open-source tool allows security professionals to scan for authentication data exposed in Amazon S3 sto...

Look, a container! Cloudify automates Kubernetes discovery
Kubernetes orchestrates. That’s what it does. Also ‘cutely’ known as K8s, Kubernetes is an open source ...

Elon Musk fires Twitter CEO and CFO after €44 billion acquisition
The acquisition of Twitter has been completed. Multiple insiders report that the CEO and CFO have been fired ...

Big tech revenue drops due to decline in advertisements
Tech giants like Google and Meta are losing revenue due to a changing online advertising market. Google, ...

Former Microsoft chief sheds light on Windows 8 a decade later
In a recent interview, the ex-chief of Windows 8 shed light on the development and legacy of the controversia...