
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

Windows Subsystem for Android app available in Microsoft Store
The Android Subsystem for Windows may be available to Microsoft Insider testers sooner rather than later. ...

Contentsquare acquires Hotjar
The move aims to expand Contentsquare's market reach to SMBs. Contentsquare announced it is joining forces...

CloudLinux to offer CentOS 8 users support until the end of 2025
When Red Hat told CentOS users it was shifting focus from CentOS Linux (the then rebuild of Red Hat Enterpris...

SUSE releases its first Rancher version, v2.6
SUSE's acquisition of Rancher Labs gave it possession of the popular Kubernetes management program Rancher, t...

AWS makes cloud observability simpler with Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Managed Grafana is now generally available. An observability servic...

Nutanix CEO says cloud convergence is the second inning of hyperconverged infrastructure
According to Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO of hyper-converged infrastructure company Nutanix, the first "inning" of hy...

Synology C2 Transfer is live now and free for 90 days
C2 Transfer is now operational. Synology has announced a 90-day free trial for anyone willing to give it a tr...

Intuit in talks to acquire Mailchimp for more than $10 billion
Intuit is in talks to acquire Mailchimp for more than $10 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg. The em...

Microsoft shows the future of Dynamics 365
Microsoft has been expanding Dynamics 365 for years. The SaaS portfolio offers ERP and CRM software solutions...

Microsoft launches Windows 11 as a free upgrade on 5 October
Starting 5 October, Windows 11 will become available as a free upgrade from Windows 10. The upgrade will be r...