Mistral raises 3 billion, Samsung leads round
In a Series D funding round, Mistral has raised 3 billion euros. The company is now valued at 21 billion euro...
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
Old ARM version of Windows surfaces
On Archive.org someone has uploaded an old build of PolarisOS. This is a stripped-down version of Windows 10 ...
Mozilla is working on a design refresh for Firefox
The project marks the first major design refresh for the popular browser since 2017. Mozilla is preparing ...
Support for Flash has officially ended
After more than 20 years Adobe has officially pulled the plug on Adobe Flash. With this, the end has come for...
SAP daughter company Qualtrics enters stock market
Qualtrics International, a company focused on developing survey software, has filed for an initial public off...
Google testing larger cache in Chrome to improve performance
Google is testing whether increasing the cache in Chrome can mitigate performance losses from a previous upda...
Microsoft bringing personal feeds to new Edge tabs
A screenshot has been leaked of the new tab page in future versions of Microsoft Edge. The tabs have a more p...
Windows 10X to support Modern Standby
Windows 10X will have a standby mode where basic programs keep running, and the computer can quickly resume w...
Microsoft Power BI announced new Datasets Hub
On Monday, Microsoft announced a new Datasets hub in the Power BI personal app and Power BI service in Teams....
Microsoft Teams is getting a new “History menu” in February
This latest feature aims to make life easier for Teams users. Tracking online meetings, video conferencing...
Parallels makes Windows 10 possible on Apple’s M1 chip
Parallels Technical Preview program is experimenting with running Microsoft OS on Apple Silicon. Parallels...