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Microsoft Loomed Large Over WWDC (Premium)

Microsoft quietly had an outsized impact on the WWDC 2019 announcements. Not bad for a…

Microsoft Previews New Visual Studio Code Icons

Microsoft finalises new Visual Studio Code icon for Windows, Mac, and Linux, coming to the…

GitHub Now Lets You Financially Support Contributors, Introduces New Enterprise Features

GitHub is testing a new Sponsors feature that lets you financially support creators and contributors…

Microsoft Releases Xamarin.Forms 4.0

The latest version of Microsoft’s Xamarin.Forms cross-platform UI toolkit for developers provides a simpler way…

Google Clarifies What’s Happening to “Works with Nest”

Google’s surprise announcement that it would replace its Home brand with Nest was well-received. Then…

You Can Create Flutter Apps on Chrome OS

You can now write software on Chrome OS. Including, apparently, Android apps made with Flutter…

Windows 10 + PWAs: A Progress Report

In October 2017, I spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s…

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps

As I predicted, Microsoft is effectively killing UWP by ensuring that all its capabilities are…

Google Pushes Chrome OS to Developers

Chrome OS and the Chromebooks on which it runs are now sophisticated enough for web…

Google Brings Flutter to the Web in Technical Preview

Google had previously announced plans to bring Flutter, its cross-platform mobile development framework, to the…

Google I/O Announcement Roundup

I’m plenty-busy here in Seattle for Microsoft Build, but I wanted to at least provide…

Google Launches Android Q Beta 3

Coincidental with the first day of its I/O conference today, Google launched Android Q Beta…

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Build is (Not) Boring (Premium)

If you think Microsoft Build is boring, you’re missing the point. This isn’t a consumer…

Build 2019: Microsoft Announces .NET 5

The next .NET release after .NET Core 3 will be branded as .NET 5, with…

Build 2019: Windows 10 to Pick Up Tabbed Terminal, More

Today at its Build 2019 developer show, Microsoft announced several coming improvements to Windows 10.

Here Comes Build 2019

Microsoft is hosting its Build 2019 developer conference this week in Seattle. And yes, Brad,…

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