While most of the world has gone mobile, Microsoft thinks there are still roadblocks keeping businesses from following suit. As a result, the company has announced PowerApps, a new enterprise software service designed to create, deliver and share business apps. “The way we work is changing. We are more mobile than ever before,” said Omar … continue reading
At long last, Microsoft has released Team Foundation Server 2015. This version of Microsoft’s ALM collaboration platform packs a breadth of new features and capabilities, from a build system overhaul, the new Team Project Rename feature and Continuous Delivery capabilities in the Azure build pipeline, to Git and extensibility improvements, and revamped agile project management. … continue reading
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called Office 365 “the most strategic development surface area” for the company. With add-ins, Azure and the latest versions of the productivity tools inside the suite, Microsoft is sharpening its focus on what has come to be known as “the future of worker productivity.” Office 365 was first launched by … continue reading
Apple and Microsoft both have reported earnings from their latest financial quarters. Apple posted quarterly revenue of US$49.6 billion, with a profit of $10.7 billion, growing its revenue by 33% year-over-year. Microsoft reported revenue of $22.2 billion, but with a net loss of $3.2 billion due to the $7.5 billion accounting charge stemming from the … continue reading
Microsoft announced it has formed the Machine Teaching Group, a research project to advance “Machine Teaching.” Machine Teaching is described by Microsoft as the next evolution of machine learning (ML), wherein developers or even users without a data analysis or computer science backgrounds can teach a computer to perform tasks. The Machine Teaching Group is … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a public preview of Azure Data Catalog, an enterprise metadata catalog and portal, along with the general availability of the Azure Batch compute pool management service. Azure Data Catalog is a fully managed cloud service for storing, describing, indexing and providing information on accessing any registered data source. The catalog enables data … continue reading
Microsoft announced a slew of product news at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago, but in a conference of more than 23,000 attendees, the active expo floor offered arguably more news on software development tools and releases for developers in the Microsoft space. Below is a rundown of some of the interesting companies and developer … continue reading
Microsoft announced an array of products and updates during the keynote of its Ignite conference, including a second preview of Windows Server 2016 with support for Linux containers through Nano Server and Hyper-V features. “What containers give the developer is the ability to create this portable application package they can run everywhere: this self-contained capability … continue reading
Microsoft announced a great deal at the 2015 Build developer conference, from the new cross-platform Visual Studio Code IDE, to news on Azure, Windows 10, Cortana, and its next-generation browser. Build isn’t all about Microsoft itself, though, as the companies making up the third-party developer-tooling ecosystem around Microsoft products also rolled out updates, new features … continue reading
Microsoft today announced the availability of a new IDE built to run on Linux and Mac OS at its developer-focused Build conference, held in San Francisco. Scott Hanselman, principal program manager with Azure, debuted Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform IDE that runs on Linux and Mac OS. It includes many of the features developers have … continue reading
Dice has released its latest analysis of its online job postings, which revealed the fastest-growing technology skills. The Top 10 trending skills, according to Dice, are Cloudera Impala, Adobe Experience Manager, Ansible, Xamarin, OnCue, Laravel, RStudio, Unified Functional Testing, Pascal and Apache Kafka. (Related: Five key skills for Linux job seekers) “Skills rise and fall … continue reading
Microsoft has announced Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud platform for developers and ISVs to build scalable cloud services. According to a blog post from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, Azure Service Fabric has been in production for more than five years and underlies Microsoft services like Skype for Business, DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and … continue reading
