Desktop development features of .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 

The .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1, version numbers and global.json 

WPF Begins its Long Goodbye 

• They lost to Kubernetes. Docker was pushing Swarm hard, but couldn’t keep up with Kubernetes and the ecosystem.
• Their private container repository was bypassed as every cloud provider on the planet created their own. 

The future of gRPC in C# belongs to grpc-dotnet 

I can tell at least that in 3 years, JavaScript will gain more the status of a VM and lose the status of a language. Already today, not many people use raw JavaScript. You usually have some transpilation, at least e.g. Babel. In the future, Web Assembly will enable more innovation in that regards, and existing transpiling languages like Elm, TypeScript, PureScript will continue to improve. 

The latest round of layoffs in Microsoft’s Windows Phone business— 1,850 jobs will be cut, according to an announcement earlier this week—seems to signal the final death gasp of a segment of the company’s business that has long struggled. Windows phones currently make up less than one percent of smartphones sold worldwide. 

We are implementing a new extension API, called WebExtensions—largely compatible with the model used by Chrome and Opera—to make it easier to develop extensions across multiple browsers.