A special upgrade price for Visual Studio 2013 Professional saves $200 over regular upgrade price.
New Monitoring Agent uses IntelliTrace capabilities.
BrowserSwarm tests all major JavaScript frameworks for errors.
Telerik's Icenium compiles HTML/JavaScript/CSS programs into their iOS and Android counterparts.
A serious shortage of workers in big data is predicted for the future as well.
Pricing starts at $449, goes as high as $899.
- By Scott Bekker, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/23/2013
Best Practices Analyzer, command-line tool among new functionality.
The new OS will not come bundled with Windows Media Player.
The update appears to be bug fixes only.
Although there's a strong move in the direction of mobile, almost no one is giving up traditional desktop development.
It will RTM the same day Windows 8.1 hits general availability.
TechNet subscribers will also get early access.
Speculation has already started that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop may be in line to succeed outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/03/2013
The decision infuriates many developers, who won't be able to upgrade apps before GA.
The product is scheduled for an official release Oct. 17
No successor has been named, and no front-runners have appeared yet.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/23/2013
Scott Guthrie encouraged developers at the Visual Studio Live! conference this morning to take advantage of their Windows Azure credits through their Microsoft Developer Network subscriptions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2013
Many devs still miss the Microsoft-built installer included with Visual Studio 2010 and earlier versions.
Other additions include SQL Server AlwaysOn failover.
The Nvidia CEO let slip the information that it's working with Microsoft on an update to the Surface RT.