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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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Google: Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple
Microsoft offered Bing for sale to Apple in 2018, but Apple would not be interested because of the search eng...
AWS adds Mistral LLMs to Amazon Bedrock
AWS is going to make two open-source LLMs from Mistral available in Amazon Bedrock. This should give customer...
X now lets all users make audio and video calls
X now offers audio and video calling functionality to all users. Previously, this was only available to Premi...
Google Docs now supports written annotations on Android
The Android version of Google Docs will support annotations written by hand or a stylus pen. Among other thin...
Windows 11 24H2 eliminates need to reboot after update
Microsoft plans to introduce "hot patching" when Windows 11 24H2 launches. In the latest Dev Channel build, c...
Elon Musk confirms planned email service “XMail”
In a post on his own social media platform X, Elon Musk let it be known that an email service is being worked...
Reddit IPO no guarantee of success
After a long run-up, Reddit's IPO is imminent. Remarkably, Reddit users themselves can also participate in th...
Google gives login pages a refresh
Google has given the login pages for its services a new, fresher and more modern look and feel. The update sh...
Google integrates AI writing assistance directly into Chrome
Google has expanded Chrome's capabilities to include AI. As a result, users can now request the help of a wri...
Samsung update brings Galaxy AI features to more devices
Samsung will soon bring Galaxy AI features for smartphones and tablets now to slightly older models than the ...