Microsoft, in collaboration with a number of educational institutions across the country, concluded an appfest in which more than 3000 complete apps were submitted by students from various colleges.
Microsoft is making a large push to help web developers with the launch of Modern.IE. This new site will aim at helping the developers code more efficiently by offering two tools to do so.
System Center’s new service pack and Windows Server 2012 will help an IT administrator to create Hyper-V virtual machines and deploy them to internal data center, remote hosting service provider or public cloud.
Microsoft has released information about their upcoming embedded edition of Windows 8, and also a preview version of the OS.
It was only a matter of time, but it has happened, Windows RT has been jailbroken, kind of.
We may see Surface 2, Windows Blue, Windows Phone 8.5, Office 2013 and a new Xbox in 2013.
Microsoft says that there has been a rise of more than 40pc in the developer revenue of the past 30 days since the launch of SDK. Reflecting on the previous year, it said that more than 75000 new apps have been published and users are installing more and more apps than ever before.
It seems that at present Google has little interest in developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 versions of its business apps.
Google is in direct competition mode, as it ends support for access to Google services on Exchange ActiveSync, stating that with open standards such as CalDAV and CardDAV, these technologies are no longer relevant.
