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 […]
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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 […]
Read more →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/
Read more →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), […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
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