Lots of things can go wrong with Microsoft's latest OS, including lost files, apps and settings.
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 are hits, as is the Bing development platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
The company says more than half of the Fortune 500 is on Azure.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013 take center stage on the second day of Microsoft's flagship developer conference.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/27/2013
Numerous packages get a refresh with the Visual Studio 2013 Preview.
Steve Ballmer headlines as Microsoft shows off preview versions of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013, and positions Bing as a development platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/27/2013
The products are "go-live," so Microsoft will support them in production.
The latest update includes mostly bug fixes.
MongoDB is a popular choice for apps that use a Windows Azure back end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2013
The upcoming Build conference spurred the action.
It's a centralized hub for partners (including Microsoft) that extend apps.
The big update in the latest version is the introduction of generics.
Microsoft reportedly thought the purchase price was too high.
Microsoft provides a solution for compatibility issues with the NuGet package restore feature.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/18/2013
Microsoft also announces that every Azure customer gets a free 20MB database to use for a year with Web Sites and Mobile Services.
Updated dev tools bundle focuses on touch, enterprise and enabling "occasionally connected" devices.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/13/2013
The JavaScript-based platform allows developers to do remote testing and debugging on a Windows Phone through Internet Explorer 10.
The company calls this ability "round-tripping," and says that Visual Studio 2013 will be able to load projects as far back as Visual Studio 2010.
At Computex, Microsoft also showed off a growing number of devices for its newest OS.
At TechEd, Microsoft reveals the next release of Visual Studio will be available later this year.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/05/2013