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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.
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Zoom enters all-stock deal to acquire Five9 for $14.7 billion
Zoom Video Communications announced late Sunday that it had made a deal to acquire Five9 Inc, a cloud contact...
Qualtrics launches tool to help design optimized hybrid work plans
The Qualtrics Experience Design for Hybrid Work and Workplaces platform is a new offering from Qualtrics for ...
IBM unveils the first end-to-end pipeline starter kit powered by machine learning
IBM announced a new addition to its open-source Cloud-Native Toolkit that will allow developers to integrate ...
Microsoft reveals price tag for it Windows Cloud PC
One of the "lower end" SKUs will apparently cost you $31 per user, per month. At Microsoft Inspire 2021, t...
Microsoft’s Windows 10 VMs for competing hypervisors were not updated
Every month Microsoft makes Windows 10 Enterprise virtual machine images available to independent developers ...
Microsoft introduces ‘Cloud for Sustainability’ bundle
Microsoft has announced offerings of vertical/industry-specific cloud bundles. On day 1 of its virtual Inspir...
NortonLifeLock wants to buy Avast
NortonLifeLock is in talks to acquire the security software maker Avast, in a deal that may value the latter ...
You can now view and edit Microsoft Dynamics 365 data in Teams
The feature is offered for free to MS Teams users, but you need a license for advanced featrures Microsoft...
Red Hat adds automation features to Kubernetes cluster management
Red Hat announced new automation features coming to version 2.3 of the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management fo...
SAS Institute decides not to sell to Broadcom
Broadcom wanted to acquire SAS Institute, but negotiations have fallen through after the institute's founders...