
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

HubSpot deploys specialized AI agents on platform
No vague promises, but concrete use-cases

Marc Benioff is on fire, never before has the Salesforce CEO been so outspoken
"Stop building your own AI, it doesn't work."

Workday introduces Illuminate; new generation of AI with agents
The new HR colleague is an AI agent

Microsoft fixes Word, Excel and Outlook crashes
Microsoft has fixed a bug in several Microsoft 365 apps. The bug caused Word, Excel, and Outlook to crash whi...

Microsoft announces Copilot Wave 2: 365 gets another revamp
A second wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot features has just been announced. Copilot Pages, new AI functions with...

OctoAI: Agentive architectures in AI development drive new skillsets
Software has agents. Agents take the form of individual sections of code tasked with specific dedicated and t...

French start-up Poolside wants to break through with AI for writing code
Poolside is seeking $500 million (nearly 450 million euros) in funding. This should give the French AI start-...

Microsoft launches benchmark to improve performance of AI agents
Microsoft developed the benchmark Windows Agent Arena to demonstrate how well AI assistants can help and supp...

Salesforce raises the AI bar with Agentforce; are AI agents replacing employees?
Job elsewhere, AI agents take over

OpenAI launches o1, making ChatGPT smarter than ever
To discuss complex issues, ChatGPT needed to get smarter. The AI model o1-preview is OpenAI's go-ahead to mak...