Original team member claims there are ‘vision’ problems
Whitehall is coming under fire for subsuming the G-Cloud into its coding house GDS (government digital service) at the expense of encouraging uptake of the framework.…
Developers, developers, developers! But WILL they support Windows 10?
HoloLens is sexy, but Microsoft faces a battle to win devs’ hearts and minds
Analysis Microsoft has revealed more of its plans for Windows 10, with full release expected towards the end of 2015. The press event focused on eye-catching features like HoloLens, a virtual reality and augmented reality headset, but what really counts is this: will Windows 10 attract developers back to the Windows platform?…
Microsoft: We bought Skype. We make mobiles.. Oh, HANG ON!
EUREKA! We should put the two together
Analysis Microsoft has given us a glimpse of Windows progress this week – and it was generally well received – particularly the one-year “grace period” allowing Windows 7 holdouts to climb on board for free.…
SURPRISE! Microsoft ships next Windows 10 Preview build early
No need to wait until next week, after all
Microsoft has released the next preview build of Windows 10 to members of its Windows Insider program, slightly ahead of schedule.…
Turnbull says big telcos should subsidise bush comms
Command and control in a free telco market
It looks like the federal government is getting its feet in a tangle, trying to reconcile the public good of the National Broadband Network with free-market doctrine.…
Windows 10: The Microsoft rule-o-three holds, THIS time it’s looking DECENT
Cortana, Spartan, Xbox – oh my
Analysis The old adage that you never install a Microsoft product until version three appears to be holding true in operating systems with Windows 10. Windows 8 was a disaster, Windows 8.1 a waystation, but Windows 10 is looking like a very solid system.…
US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess
Tests jettisoned to protect schedule
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) remains the problem child of the US military, with some operational tests abandoned in 2014, and buggy software proving a headache.…
Big software players talking common microservices definitions
VMware plans ‘stack’ for componentised apps
Big software outfits are looking to define microservices, the concept of decomposed applications enabled by containerisation.…
Your anonymous code contributions probably aren’t: boffins
Coders are creatures of easily-identifiable habit
There’s no such thing as an anonymous programmer: your coding style can unmask you, according to research led by Drexel University Comp. Sci. PhD student Aylin Caliskan-Islam.…
Open-source Java pals Groovy and Grails seek moneybags backer
Pivotal’s pulled out
Two major open source Java projects, Groovy and Grails, are looking for new sponsors.…