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
DigitalOcean introduces platform for AI agents
DigitalOcean recently introduced its GenAI platform, which allows developers to build and deploy AI agents qu...
Scale Computing attracts VMware customers: 45 percent growth
Scale Computing reports record growth over 2024. The company saw an increase of more than 45 percent in softw...
Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end-of-life status later this year
Microsoft has announced that support for Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2019 will officially end this October. U...
Microsoft previews Windows AI Search
Microsoft is currently testing Windows AI Search. Users can search their own file folders in everyday languag...
New MariaDB release makes database management smarter and more secure
MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025 will help support AI applications via vector search. With vector search, ...
Google open sources software composition analysis library
Software composition analysis (SCA) is a process undertaken to identify and track application code dependenci...
Drupal launches no-code CMS
Drupal CMS is a system for people who are not used to developing websites. They can put up an all-round websi...
Microsoft shadows Google: 365 now includes AI as standard
In the wake of Google Workspace adding AI everywhere, all versions of Microsoft 365 will now feature the same...
Google is adding AI to every Workspace subscription
Prices are being raised
Microsoft MFA outage blocks access to Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft is experiencing problems with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) system, preventing users from a...