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Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device 

An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. The fork is called Open Live Writer (also known as OLW) and it is part of the .NET Foundation and managed by this group of volunteers.  

Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016  

• Microsoft will change how it reports financially.
• Microsoft will become a “consumer-focused enterprise company.”
• Windows will converge into a single code base capable of running on any platform.
• Application development will converge into allowing developers to maintain a single code base for an app that will run on any device capable of running Windows.
• Release frequency will dramatically increase.
• The “modern” user interface is here to stay.  

Today is a pretty exciting day if you’re an enterprise developer. . . Red Hat and Microsoft have  announced  that the two companies will be working together to bring a supported version of the  .NET r untime to Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux and OpenShift 3

Surprise: Microsoft Is Agile

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Microsoft, sees potential of new technology

Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer science for all youth worldwide.