Microsoft Edge browser crashing soon after launch: this time, it’s IBM...
A common problem (I am not sure how common, but there are hundreds of reports) with the Edge browser in Windows 10 is that it gets into the habit of opening and then immediately closing, or closing...
View ArticleThe downside of “Windows as a service”: disappearing features (and why I will...
Microsoft has posted a list of features that are “removed or deprecated” in the next major update to Windows 10, called the Fall Creators Update. The two that caught my eye are Paint, a simple graphics...
View ArticleAn overreaching Office 365 integration from Sage
Sage, a software vendor best known for its accounting software, recently introduced an Office 365 integration in its products called Sage 50C Accounts (the “C” is for cloud). The integration offers...
View ArticleMicrosoft updates the .NET stack with .NET Core 2.0 and updated Visual...
Microsoft has released .NET Core 2.0, a major update to its open source, cross-platform version of the .NET runtime and C# language. New features include implementation of .NET Standard 2.0 (a way of...
View ArticleGenerating code for simple SQL Server data access without Entity Framework,...
I realise that Microsoft’s Entity Framework is the most common approach for data access in the .NET world, but I have also always had good results from a simple manual approach using DbConnection,...
View ArticleVMware Cloud on AWS: a game changer? What about Microsoft’s Azure Stack?
The biggest announcement from VMWorld in Las Vegas and then Barcelona was VMware Cloud on AWS; essentially VMware hosts on AWS servers. A key point is that this really is VMware on AWS infrastructure;...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite: where next for Microsoft’s cloud? The Facebook of business?
Microsoft has futuristic domes as part of its Envision event, running alongside Ignite here in Orlando. Ignite is the company’s main technical event of the year, focusing mainly on IT Pros but...
View ArticleMicrosoft announces Office 2019, Exchange Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019
This was not one of Microsoft’s most surprising announcements, but even so, confirmation that some of the company’s most significant products are to receive updates a year or so from now. The...
View ArticleWhich Azure Stack is right for you?
I went in search of Azure Stack at Microsoft’s Ignite event. I found a few in the Expo. It is now shipping and the Lenovo guy said they had sold a dozen or so already. Why Azure Stack? Microsoft’s...
View ArticleQuick thoughts on Salesforce and Google Cloud Platform alliance
Yesterday Salesforce and Google announced a strategic partnership: 1. Salesforce named Google Cloud as “a preferred public cloud provider”. Salesforce says it “continues to invest in its own data...
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