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Bad Apps Plague the Windows Store

Several blogs and websites have recently noted that Microsoft’s Windows Store has been completely overrun by fake apps and scams. Whenever users search for well-known apps like iTunes, Firefox, Adobe

More Employers Offering Bonuses to Developers

According to Dice.com, more employers are offering developers bonuses and other special perks in order to attract and retain talent. Around 90 percent of the organizations surveyed by Dice offered

Visual Studio Adds Bing Developer Assistant

Microsoft has announced the release of a new extension for its Visual Studio IDE called Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio. The tool combines the power of the IDE’s sample

Microsoft Azure Experiences Downtime

On Monday, August 18, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service experienced an outage in several different worldwide regions. The problem began just before 2 in the afternoon eastern time with a

Visual Studio Online Experiences Outage

On Thursday, many developers experienced problems when they tried to log in to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online service. The IDE experienced several hours of downtime beginning around 9:30 a.m. ET.

Why Do Cloud Apps Crash?

While cloud computing can offer enterprises a greater degree of flexibility and, in some cases, lower costs, moving to the cloud doesn’t necessarily result in greater uptime. In fact, cloud

Report: M2M Adoption Grows 80%

In its M2M Adoption Barometer Survey, Vodafone reported that worldwide machine-to-machine (M2M) deployments increased 80 percent in the last year. M2M is another term for Internet of Things (IoT). In