Microsoft showered application developers with new tools on Wednesday, including a preview of the next release of Visual Studio and an all new version of the IDE that offers the full flexibility and extensibility of the flagship Visual Studio product, free of charge.…
Interview Today Microsoft announced that the .NET core framework, which powers web applications using the ASP.NET libraries, will be open source on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But what are the implications for Mono, the existing open source project which already provides .NET support on Linux and the Mac?…
Amazon fired a volley at Oracle and other relational database vendors on Wednesday, with the launch of a new, cloud-hosted database service that it says can deliver better performance than on-premises installations at a fraction of the cost.…
Developer conference Samsung really wants to be a key player in the much ballyhooed internet-of-things, but admits it can’t do the job alone.…
Future Decoded Once upon a time, around every November, Steve Ballmer visited the UK on an official, annual state visit.…
Groupon has given up its pursuit of the trademark “Gnome”, intended for its sales register tablet, after being chased off by the open-source GNOME project.…
Oracle has announced a new tool for HR departments called “Employee Wellness” and seems to be suggesting that you might be willing to let your boss track how much you exercise.…
Browser testing service BrowserStack has temporarily suspended its services while it recovers from a “hack attack” by someone apparently bent on discrediting the security of the widely used tool.…
The Ministry of Defence is to consider making some of its more “sophisticated” software available online, having for the first time publicly released code onto open-source site Github.com.…
Analysis It seems hard to believe but 10 years ago the PC was the only computing interface for billions of consumers and businesses and Microsoft owned them all.…