As per Gartner Worldwide Cloud IaaS Spending to Grow 32.8% in 2015. The new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS report released on May 2015 places IaaS companies under the following categories: Leaders: Amazon AWS and Microsoft Challengers: Unfortunately there are no challengers for Amazon/Microsoft as per the report. Visionaries: Google, VMWare, CenturyLink, IBM SoftLayer… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5) RC–Released
Microsoft has released an release candidate version for VS2013 Update 5 (short: 2013.5). This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013. What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Current iteration query token Team Project Rename support for Local Workspaces : – [ability to… Continue reading
Office 2016 Preview available
Microsoft has released Office 2016 Preview Download links Get Office 2016 Preview (32 bit) Get Office 2016 Preview (64 bit) Obtain license key from: https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2016-preview#howToGet Read more about features available from official blog: http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/04/office-2016-public-preview-now-available/
Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio 2015 RC
Microsoft has announced that with Visual Studio 2015 – Apache Cordova tools will be integrated within the main install bundle. Using Apache Cordova Tools for Visual Studio you will be able to develop cross-platform mobile applications using single codebase for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. With support for native device capabilities (e.g. camera, accelerometer, contact),… Continue reading
Microsoft Developer Program for IoT & Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview
Microsoft has introduced a new developer program to enable the developers working on Internet of Things(IoT) based implementations. As part of this program developers would be able to try out – Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview. If you are an enthusiast working on IoT, you can signup @ https://www.windowsondevices.com/signup.aspx allows you to be early… Continue reading
Introducing Visual Studio Code
As part of Microsoft’s focused approach to bring in more value to Cross platform & Open Source based initiatives Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code IDE along with .NET Core runtime for Mac, Linux and Windows. Visual Studio Code, a new, free, cross-platform code editor for building modern web and cloud applications on Mac OS… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2015 RC–Download
During #Build2015 event Microsoft has unveiled Visual Studio 2015 RC (Release Candidate) with lots of improvements and fixes to CTP version of Visual Studio. RC would be a near release quality and your see it is stable than ever. Release Date: 29/APR/2015 Release Notes: View Release notes Download Visual Studio 2015 RC Community Edition –… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2015–Editions
With Visual Studio 2015 Microsoft has changed type of editions available as part the Visual Studio product line up, also made some changes to MSDN Subscription levels. Changes in Visual Studio Editions No more Premium and Ultimate edition of Visual Studio. There will only be 3 editions available: Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition – Free,… Continue reading
Azure App Service–create Web + Mobile + Logic + API apps with ease
Microsoft today announced availability of new azure cloud services named as Azure App Service. Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a replacement of old Azure Websites / Azure Mobile Services, earlier these services were delivered separately and Microsoft has integrated all these capability in to single service and made it easy to configure. Azure… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2015 – ctp6
Microsoft today has released Visual Studio 2015 Community Technology Preview 6 (CTP 6), which includes some new features and improvements, such as new UI debugging tools for XAML, new Control Flow Guard security tool, and feature updates to ASP.NET framework. For more information about what’s new in this release, please see the release notes. Visual Studio 2015… Continue reading