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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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Microsoft makes open-source version MS-DOS available on GitHub
Microsoft makes MS-DOS once again open-source. This time the tech giant published the code on GitHub. These ar...
Microsoft discontinues development Office for touch screen
Microsoft has stopped developing its Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 on touch screens. That's what The Verge...
AWS makes High Memory Instances available for in-memory databases
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made High Memory EC2 instances available to users who run intensive in-memory da...
Kubernetes introduces new security features in version 1.12
Kubernetes version 1.12 has been announced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The new version comes wit...
Elon Musk resigns as chairman of the board of Tesla in settlement with SEC
Elon Musk stepped down as chairman of Tesla's board of directors. In addition, he pays a fine of twenty millio...
WhatsApp founder Brian Acton was working externally at Facebook
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left parent company Facebook ten months ago. A reason for his departure w...
The two ways Facebook wants to make money with WhatsApp
After Facebook took over WhatsApp, it was immediately questionable how CEO Mark Zuckerberg intended to make mo...
Microsoft 365 adds virtual desktop and apps from Azure
Microsoft 365 has announced Windows Virtual Desktop. This desktop should provide a virtual experience of Windo...
“Founders Instagram get out because of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the two founders of Instagram, have announced their retirement. Insiders argue...
Microsoft unveils dozens of updates to Azure and Office 365
Microsoft has unveiled dozens of new updates for its cloud products, such as Azure and Office 365. Most produc...