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It’s rather hard when your biggest success is also your biggest millstone, but for Microsoft the x86 Win32 platform has been both their biggest blessing and biggest curse, leading to their ubiquitous presence in every office and most households around the world, and also leaving them with an insecure platform which is difficult to monetize and manage.Microsoft has been trying since Windows 8 to move Windows users onto a more controlled platform, but efforts like Windows RT and Windows 10 S have invariably floundered due to the lack of power offered by the Windows Store when compared to the estimated 8 million Win32 apps available easily and often freely on the inteet.Microsoft is not well kn...

Speaking to Venturebeat, Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research explained one of the major problems Microsoft wanted to solve for developers was the discoverability for their new chat bots. Microsoft’s Bot Frameworkis being used by 45,000 developers but Cheng noted that surveys found one of the top issues for developers was “Hey I made this bot, how am I going to get it promoted?” Microsoft therefore wanted to work on an open cross-platform bot directory which did not just include bots made with their own technology but was more a kind of bot search engine. Cheng noted:“We’re still trying to figure out how that would actually work in practice. I think there’s some sta...

Microsoft is plaing to its App-V virtualization client into Windows 10 with the upcoming Redstone release. For those unfamiliar with App-V, it’s a management system for IT pros which allows them to “better administer a catalog of existing Win32 apps including techniques for app-to-app isolation, consistent lifecycle management mechanisms and usage tracking”. Now, Microsoft is apparently plaing to “tightly” integrate App-V with Windows 10 Redstone. Microsoft will be working on integrating Windows 10 Enterprise, and they will continue to use App-V 5.1 Server infrastructure toensure the integration works perfectly without causing any issues for existing users. Here’s my Microsoft’s timeline for...