
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

ServiceNow acquires 4Industry and Smart Daily Management app
ServiceNow, which specializes in workflow automation, has acquired Netherlands-based 4Industry. This company ...

Microsoft announces 2024 version of its permanent Office LTSC
Microsoft is introducing a new permanent standalone version of Office LTSC this year. This version is a sligh...

xAI open sources details and architecture of their Grok-1 LLM
Elon Musk's AI developer xAI has finally made the basic model, underlying parameters and architecture of the ...

‘Apple plans to use Google Gemini for AI features iPhone’
Apple is planning to add AI features to new iPhones. However, it does not appear to be able to implement the ...

Dutch TheyDo raises €31 million to grow
The money will be invested in AI research and development as well as quantitative and qualitative data. The c...

Oracle adds more than 50 GenAI features to Fusion Cloud Apps Suite
Across the Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, GenAI capabilities are becoming available to users. In addition, ...

Salesforce Pro Suite targets ‘intermediate segment’ of growing SMBs
To further penetrate the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, Salesforce is launching a 'Pro Suite' ...

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla launch speed test for browsers
Speedometer, a benchmarking tool browsers, has been updated to version 3.0. Remarkably, the companies behind ...

Developers allowed to sell iPhone apps through their own websites
Starting this spring, Apple allows developers of iPhone apps to offer their apps directly to users through th...

Microsoft makes Copilot GPT Builder available: personalize chatbots
Microsoft is launching the Copilot GPT Builder. The feature requires no programming knowledge and lets users ...