Microsoft's Windows Azure announcements this week are setting the stage for a Windows Azure Conference on Wednesday, Nov. 14, for app developers.
Microsoft announced the departure of Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live divisions, late on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/13/2012
Upgrades include improved business intelligence capabilities, Reporting Services support for SharePoint.
The collaboration tool had been in preview mode for a year.
Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8 developer tools on Tuesday as the company welcomed developers to its Redmond campus to dive deeper into its Windows 8 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/31/2012
Upgrades to the development suite include CoreCLR and async programming.
Microsoft says that more than 120,000 apps are available for the phone at launch.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/29/2012
Gartner predictions are at odds with others who think the new platform will win converts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/29/2012
Telerik Releases "Icenium", targeted at iOS/Android devs who don't want to run multiple development environments and SDKs.
The company also takes the wraps off of Surface, the first full computer it's ever created.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/25/2012
Forrester sees PC dominance continuing, but is skeptical of its chances in the mobile device market.
Microsoft execs took questions during a Reddit chat.
A new, free tool from JNBridge connects .NET developers with HBase, the database for Hadoop.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2012
Microsoft has three goals for the latest iteration of its flagship IDE.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/15/2012
Q1 2013 financial results coming on Oct. 18.
Update 1 is part of Microsoft’s new strategy of offering "continuous value" on a quarterly basis, in addition to Service Packs. The company released the final CTP on Monday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/10/2012
Steven Guggenheimer takes over for Abu-Hadba, who's leaving the company.
TypeScript has been released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Get a preview of the upcoming conference in this issue.
With more than 600,000 downloads of Visual Studio 2012 in a less than 4 weeks, the new IDE has the fastest download rate in the product's history.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/12/2012