Microsoft is working on a new design language for Windows 10 codenamed Project NEON

Microsoft has made several adjustments to its design language over the last few years, starting with Windows 8 and evolving into what we now know as "Microsoft Design Language 2" or MDL2 in Windows 10. With MDL2 being the current design language used throughout Windows 10, Microsoft has plans to begin using a much more streamlined design language with Redstone 3, codenamed Project NEON. A Metro 2.0? Cassim Ketfi at Numerama.com confirms our information and has heard Project NEON called "basically Metro 2". That designation refers to the first Metro…

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Satya Nadella: Microsoft building the ‘ultimate mobile device’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has again reaffirmed the company’s commitment to developing smartphones. Unfazed by its market share dropping beneath 1 percent, Nadella said Microsoft is planning a revolutionary “ultimate mobile device.” Nadella made the comments during an interview with the Australian Financial Review. He visited Sydney last week to address a local developers conference about Microsoft’s cognitive computing systems and Azure cloud services. Nadella outlined his plans for Microsoft’s future involvement with smartphones. He suggested the company has stopped trying to rival the established leaders in the field. Instead,…

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Xamarin Forms and Google Mobile Ads for iOS: update

In my previous post I explaind how to add on your application advertising. In those days Xamarin has removed from the Component Store the component called Google Mobile Ads for iOS. Now you have to install another component called Firebase AdMob for iOS. After installed this component you can see in your Output window a similar info without see an advert in your app: 2016-11-18 11:28:14.853 WordBankEasy.iOS[11103:2250070] <Google> You must set the rootViewController property of <GADBannerView: 0x1034702c0; frame = (-10 0; 320 50); clipsToBounds = YES; layer = <CALayer: 0x174e39d40>>…

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Microsoft delivers test builds of Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio 2017 for Windows

Visual Studio for Mac is not a port of Visual Studio for Windows; it’s a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that will work on the Mac. (Microsoft bought mobile-tool vendor Xamarin in February 2016.) Visual Studio for Mac is available as of today as a preview for download. Visual Studio 2017 is the official name of the product Microsoft has been calling "Visual Studio Next" and/or codename "VS ’15’." As of today, a near-final Release Candidate version of that product is available to testers. The RC…

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Store and Ads to Deliver $189 Billion to Publishers in 2020

Apps are increasingly becoming the go-to resource for communication, entertainment, shopping, productivity and more. As a result, the time consumers spend in apps has exploded. Coupled with the growth of the global installed base of smartphones and tablets, this will set the stage for significant revenue growth. This expanding revenue opportunity will not be exclusive to the top apps and categories, but will be more widely spread across the app economy. In order to fully capitalize on the app economy’s exceptional growth, publishers need to anticipate future market opportunities when…

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Windows switching to differential patching in the Creators Update

Major Windows 10 updates, including this summer’s Anniversary Update and next year’s Creators Update, are distributed as essentially full operating system installs. The downloads are around 4GB, and installing them performs a complete in-place upgrade to Windows. That is set to change as Microsoft rolls out what it calls its Unified Update Platform (UUP). Major upgrades will be shipped as differential updates, where only the differences between the currently installed version and the newly installed version need to be downloaded. The company estimates that this will result in major version…

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Microsoft takes on Slack with its new Microsoft Teams app

Microsoft today announced a major new app at its Office event in New York City. The company’s new service, Microsoft Teams is its own take on the popular team communication tool, Slack. We reported about Microsoft Teams just 2 months ago, and Microsoft is officially launching it in a limited preview for Office 365 users today. Microsoft, however, is calling Teams a group chatting software which will be accessiblefrom the Web, Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. Firstly, let’s get the basics covered: Microsoft Teams lets you share…

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AWS public cloud is twice as big as Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services is utterly dominating the competition, taking 45 percent of worldwide revenues for public cloud services, according to a new analysis. Microsoft and Google might be increasing public cloud revenues faster than AWS, but they’ve also got a long way to go to come close to catching up, a new analysis from Synergy Research Group shows. The combined revenues from Microsoft, Google, and IBM amount to less than 20 percent of worldwide infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS, revenues in Q3 2016, compared with AWS’s 45 percent, the research firm reports.

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