Tim Anderson's IT Writing

[...] The popular media playback app VLC is coming to Windows Phone as well as Windows tablets, according to an email sent to supporters of its Kickstarter [...]

[...] its acquisition of Nokia today, a milestone in the turbulent story both of Nokia and of Windows Phone, which Nokia adopted in the hope of establishing a “third ecosystem” to challenge [...]

[...] Developing for Windows Phone is now closer to developing for the Windows 8 runtime, according to information from Microsoft& [...]

[...] I attended an event in London which was a kind-of UK launch for Windows Phone 8.1. The first Lumia device running 8.1, the Lumia 630, is now on sale, though this was not [...]

[...] Microsoft’s Soma Somasegar has announced the next version of Visual Studio, currently known as Visual Studio 14, but likely to be fully released in 2015 (and, I am [...]

[...] At TechEd this week, Microsoft announced Apache Cordova support in Visual Studio 2013. A Cordova app is HTML and JavaScript wrapped as a native app, with support for multiple [...]

[...] in Visual ...continue reading Hands on with Xamarin 3.0: a cross-platform breakthrough for Visual Studio [...]

[...] you can create and modify a GUI in ...continue reading Xamarin 3.0 brings iOS visual design to Visual Studio, cross-platform XAML, F#, NuGet and more [...]

[...] Microsoft’s Todd Brix has posted about misleading apps in Windows Store: Every app store finds its own balance between app quality and choice, which in turn opens the [...]

[...] built into the standard controls, so if you do ...continue reading Getting animated: basics in Windows Store apps [...]

[...] -specific functions. Microsoft’s ...continue reading XAML and C#, or HTML and WinJS for Windows Store, Universal and cross platform apps? [...]

[...] , a Windows Runtime API that wraps Direct2D (part of DirectX), for accelerated graphics in Windows Store apps. The new API is described here and you can download the current binary here. It is in its [...]

[...] Web Sites Azure Blob Storage Microsoft .NET 4.5 with ...continue reading Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections [...]

[...] Satya Nadella and VP of cloud and enterprise Scott Guthrie offered ...continue reading How is Microsoft Azure doing? Some stats from Satya Nadella and Scott Guthrie [...]

[...] Dave Coplin as I heard the very same talk earlier this month, so ...continue reading Microsoft Azure: growing but still has image problems [...]

[...] services through PowerShell scripts. My view is the opposite though. ...continue reading Microsoft Azure: new preview portal is “designed like an operating system” but is it better? [...]

[...] April 2013 Xamarin acquired a company called LessPainful, specialists in functional testing for mobile apps, which had created a mobile app testing tool called Calabash. Calabash is based on Cucumber, [...]

[...] Amazon Web Services has announced an updated AWS Mobile SDK, which provides libraries for mobile apps using Amazon’s cloud services as a back end. Version 2.0 of the SDK supporting iOS, and Android [...]

[...] , which includes core applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver, mobile apps for Apple’s iPad, and the online portfolio site Behance. Creative Cloud is also the mechanism [...]

[...] 4382 +30 3906 -23 Devices and Consumer Hardware 1973 +571 258 -135 ...continue reading Microsoft financials: strong quarter especially in cloud services. We have a very different way to think about [...]

[...] licences to subscription, even in the consumer market. It also ...continue reading Microsoft financials show robust performance, Office in transition to subscription, both cloud and server [...]

[...] Licensing 4167 -1377 3876 -1105 Computing and Gaming Hardware 3997 ...continue reading Microsoft Financials [...]

[...] Microsoft financials are hard to parse these days, with figures broken down into broad categories that reveal [...]