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Miguel de Icaza: don’t blame Google for Microsoft’s contempt for developers

By tim, on May 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Xamarin’s Miguel de Icaza (founder of the Mono project) has complained on Twitter about Microsoft’s Windows Division’s “contempt for developers” when it created the Windows Runtime and a “4th incompatible Xaml stack”, in a conversation prompted by the company’s spat with Google over the YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google wants this removed because it

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Official Google Android Studio is based on JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA

By tim, on May 15th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Back in January I asked IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android? Google says yes. At the IO conference today, the company announced the official Android Studio – and it a version of IntelliJ IDEA.

Android Studio is currently in preview.

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The pros and cons of subscription vs perpetual licenses

By tim, on May 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has caused a stir with its announcement that Creative Suite will no longer be available under a perpetual license, for versions beyond the current Creative Suite 6.

Given this, the CC applications will be available only as part of Creative Cloud. We will continue to sell and support Adobe Creative Suite® 6 applications, and

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Creative Pros prefer iOS says Adobe, explaining lack of Android support in new apps

By tim, on May 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has shown a new touch app for Kuler, its web application for creating and choosing colour themes, which will be available in June.

I asked Scott Morris, Senior Marketing Director of Creative Cloud, about Android and whether apps like this will also be supported there.

“That is coming out to begin with at

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Adobe announces next Creative Suite, now called Creative Cloud

By tim, on May 6th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced the next version of its all-conquering Creative Suite, now renamed (or subsumed into) Creative Cloud.

Availability is set for June 2013. There will not be any perpetual licenses for the updated applications:

Can I purchase a perpetual license for the new Creative Cloud (CC) desktop applications that were announced in

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Fixing slow network or wi-fi in Windows 8 with Hyper-V

By tim, on May 3rd, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

I had an annoying problem with my Samsung Slate running Windows 8. I use it while traveling, and every time I connected to a different wi-fi network, or even woke it from sleep while on the same network, I would get several minutes pause while Windows tried access the network. During this time, applications like

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Billion dollar revenue or not, Microsoft Azure is growing fast

By tim, on April 30th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Is Microsoft Azure now a billion dollar business? Maybe, maybe not. The milestone was announced by Curt Anderson, CFO for Server and Tools at Microsoft, in this Bloomberg piece:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time … Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure

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RAD Studio XE4 with Delphi for iOS is here. Who will use it?

By tim, on April 25th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero has released RAD Studio XE4, its suite of development tools for Window, Web and for the first time, Apple iOS. iOS support first appeared in an earlier release, but in preview, and the current effort works using a new LLVM-based ARM compiler so is somewhat unlike the preview. Individual products such as Delphi XE4

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Changes in the Delphi language for ARM and mobile support

By tim, on April 25th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Delphi developers should note changes in the Delphi language coming as a result of the move towards the LLVM compiler for mobile support. Embarcadero has released a paper describing these in detail. The just-released RAD Studio XE4 includes the ARM compiler for iOS, with an Android compiler to follow later this year.

It seems to

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Key Easy Assist feature of Microsoft InTune disabled on Windows 8, when will it return?

By tim, on April 21st, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s cloud PC management service, InTune, is aimed at smaller businesses and the resellers who support them. It brings some of the features of System Center to organisations who are too small to justify deploying it, or who want a simpler solution.

One of the features of InTune is remote assistance. End users click a

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