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Microsoft shrugs off Windows 8 issues with record revenue

By tim, on April 19th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft released its financial figures for the first three months of 2013.

Quarter ending March 31st 2013 vs quarter ending March 31st 2012, $millions

Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 5703 +1070 3459 +480 Server and Tools 5039 +508 1979 +293 Online 832 +125 -262 +218 Business (Office) 6319 +477

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No more Delphi for .NET: Prism removed from RAD Studio XE4

By tim, on April 19th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero is removing Prism from the next version of RAD Studio, XE4, expected later this month.

Prism is actually a third-party product, based on RemObjects Oxygene. Prism and Oxygene let you code in Delphi and compile to .NET or Mono.

Marc Hoffman from RemObjects explains the change here:

Starting with the upcoming release of

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Xamarin acquires LessPainful, announces Test Cloud for mobile apps

By tim, on April 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Xamarin, a company which provides tools for cross-platform development in C#, has announced its acquisition of LessPainful and the creation of cloud-based testing for mobile apps based on LessPainful’s technology and the Calabash scripting language it created.

The Test Cloud will perform automated user-interface tests on real devices, hosted by Xamarin, will provide detailed reports

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Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on April 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools.

There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap.

There is an intriguing comment here:

The XDK

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The PC puzzle: does the sales drop implicate or justify Windows 8?

By tim, on April 11th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Gartner has joined IDC in releasing figures showing a steep drop in PC sales for the first quarter of 2013.

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 79.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, an 11.2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2012, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Global PC shipments went

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Microsoft takes aim at VMware, talks cloud and mobile device management at MMS 2013

By tim, on April 8th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

I am attending the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas (between 5 and 6,000 attendees I was told), where Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Windows Server & System Center, gave the opening keynote this morning.

There was not a lot of news as such, but a few things struck me as notable.

Virtualisation

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Office 2013 Home and Business requires a Microsoft account to activate, a nuisance for Office 365 users

By tim, on April 5th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

A small business contacted me with a perplexing problem related to Office 2013 and Office 365. The scenario looks like this:

All their staff have Office 365 E1 accounts (for small and midsize businesses) They normally buy laptops with Microsoft Office. That would normally be the OEM version or more recently the Product Key Card

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Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?

By tim, on April 4th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:

Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down

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Twilio integrates with Google App Engine for cloud telephony applications

By tim, on April 2nd, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Cloud telephony company Twilio has announced a partnership with Google to integrate its API with App Engine, Google’s platform for cloud applications. Google has a clear explanation of what this enables here. You can have your application respond to incoming SMS texts or voice calls, and send an SMS back, or for voice, play messages,

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Microsoft’s growth areas: Azure, Server with Hyper-V, Office 365, Windows Phone

By tim, on March 27th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has left slip a few figures in posts from PR VP Frank Shaw and platform evangelist Steve Guggenheimer.

Observers have tended to focus on Windows “Blue” and what is happening with Microsoft’s core client operating system, but what caught my eye was a few figures on progress in other areas.

Windows Azure compute usage

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