
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 lets Linux applications with a GUI run on Windows
Microsoft has made it possible to run Linux applications with a GUI on Windows. It is an extension of the exi...

Loft Labs open sources its virtualisation software for Kubernetes
Loft Labs has made its vcluster software open source. With this virtualisation software, it is possible to le...

Mirantis Container Cloud offers Kubernetes on different clouds
Mirantis announced Mirantis Container Cloud with hundreds of updates. It includes support for the IaaS soluti...

Salesforce Digital 360 for Industries helps businesses to go digital
Their launch of Digital 360 for Industries aims to help businesses across multiple industries to go digital. ...

Mastercard buys identity verification company Ekata
Mastercard will acquire Ekata's Identity Engine SaaS in a deal worth $850 million This week Mastercard mo...

Microsoft Edge receives Performance mode
Microsoft has released a test version of its Edge browser that includes a so-called Performance mode. This mo...
Microsoft received nearly 25.000 data requests in six months
In the period from July to December 2020, Microsoft was asked 24,798 times by a government agency to disclose...

Microsoft moves to unify its Edge codebase across all platforms
The company is launching a new version of Edge on the Canary channel on Android. Microsoft is making a ver...

New Chrome features boost productivity and lower memory usage
Enhancements offer users a "productivity boost" during the pandemic, according to Google. Last week Google...

Firefox and WordPress turn their backs on Google’s advertisement AI
Two big names in the internet world have spoken out against Google's FLoC system. Both Mozilla, the developer...