Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed “Blue”) will be released to manufacturers in late August. Citing unnamed sources, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says it is likely that
In the past, Microsoft used to go years between major updates to its key products. But now, its major desktop and server software packages are getting updates every year, while
Interest in DevOps, a management philosophy that encourages close collaboration between developers and IT operations, continues to grow. It aims to break down traditional “silos” in IT and to foster
On July 9, Atlassian will release Bamboo 5, the latest version of its continuous integration (CI) server. The release adds a number of new features related to DevOps, and the
Microsoft has announced that the Windows Store officially has 100,000 apps for the Windows 8 operating system. It reached the milestone about eight months after release of Windows 8. That’s
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, already uses OpenStack to power its private cloud environment. Now, its openlab group is partnering with Rackspace to build a large hybrid cloud
The Eclipse Foundation has quietly issued Eclipse 4.3, codenamed Kepler. According to the Foundation, more than 420 developers from 54 different organizations worked on more than 58 million lines of
On the second day of its Build 2013 developer conference, Microsoft announced a new partnership with platform as a service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard. Now, those who use Engine Yard’s
Google has launched a new cloud computing service for developers that it calls the Cloud Playground. The idea is to give developers a place where they can experiment with their