Peter Bright at Ars Technica has a lengthy article on Microsoft’s adoption of agile software development methodologies, and it’s well worth a read. Microsoft development teams had long been mired
Microsoft has released a third update for its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2013. The most eagerly anticipated new feature is CodeLens for Git repositories. It allows developers to seem more
CIO Strategic Marketing Services and Triangle Publishing Services have released “The Connected Enterprise: Keeping Pace with Mobile Development,” a new Oracle-sponsored report based on a worldwide survey. Key takeaways from
For the second month in a row, the percentage of the world’s PCs running Windows 8 or 8.1 has declined slightly. According to Net Applications, 12.5 percent of desktops and
Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan has ruled that Microsoft must comply with a federal search warrant and hand over a customer email?even though that email is stored
The 2014 Big Data & Advanced Analytics Survey from Evans Data finds that the batch processing capabilities of Hadoop aren’t enough to meet developers’ needs. In fact, only 16 percent
Recently, more enterprise application development teams have been embracing devops?a philosophy that breaks down the barriers between development and operations to speed processes and simplify application management. However, some misperceptions
In another sign of the growing importance of APIs, enterprise software vendor SAP will begin reselling API management software from Apigee under the name SAP API Management. The tool controls
Market research firm Gartner is reporting that supply chain management (SCM) software is on track to generate $10 billion in revenue in 2014. That’s a 12.2 percent increase from 2013;