Windows 10: Changing Paradigms

Windows 10 is the main discussion topic in the online development communities. This new operating system that is currently in the technical preview (and available through the Microsoft insider program) is a milestone in the platform unification journey that Microsoft embarked upon with starting with Windows Phone and Windows 8 operating systems. With Windows 10, developers and users are introduced to one development kit, one store, one application and one binary distribution package. Introducing Windows Core With Windows 10, developers are introduced to the new Windows Core concept. Windows Core…

What is HTTP/2 and is it going to speed up the web?

The web is about to get faster thanks to a new version of HTTP – the biggest change since 1999 to the protocol that underpins the world wide web as we know it today. Hypertext Transfer Protocol is familiar to most as the https:// at the beginning of a web address. It governs the connections between a user’s browser and the server hosting a website, invented by the father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is the next version of HTTP and is based on Google’s…