Todd R. Weiss

Through the end of December, bank employees at HSBC Group’s flagship branch in Manhattan are using Samsung Gear S3 smartwatches to quickly communicate with each other to help meet the needs of customers who come to the three-story bank offices to do business. The pilot project, which began in early October, was designed to help […]

Microsoft is continuing its recent efforts to share some of its code as open source by announcing that its Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Windows Forms and Windows UI XAML Library will now have their code contributed as open-source projects. Announced at the company’s Windows Connect (); 2018 developers conference, the moves are being made to […]

Users of Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams are getting new capabilities and options thanks to new preview versions of the SharePoint Framework and of Microsoft Teams. For SharePoint Frameworks, the new preview edition adds easier deployment options across Office 365 sites and a new ability to use Office 365 to host application elements, according to […]

As 5G network testing, development, trials and deployments continue to proceed around the world, a new survey by communications technology vendor Ericsson says that by 2024, some 40 percent of the world’s population will be covered by 5G cellular networks. In its 2018 Mobility Report, Ericsson concludes that some 1.5 billion mobile users will have […]

Microsoft has released Release Candidate 1 of its new Azure DevOps Server 2019 platform for customers who have special requirements for running Azure DevOps as a self-hosted platform. The new server version is aimed at customers who want to run Azure DevOps on-premises, for users who require a guaranteed isolated instance of Azure DevOps and […]

Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) security platform has been bolstered with a series of improvements aimed at better protecting enterprise IT systems from malicious attacks and other security threats. The improvements, which include enhanced automation capabilities, expanded threat hunting, additional attack surface reductions and improved post-breach detection, were unveiled in a recent post […]

Microsoft has acquired app-provisioning vendor FSLogix to help bolster its recent plans to offer Windows Virtual Desktop services to business customers. FSLogix, which helps IT administrators manage their virtual desktop deployments, will be used by Microsoft to improve the performance of Microsoft Office 365 and other applications when run in virtualized desktop environments. The acquisition […]

Microsoft has updated its Quantum Development Kit with new features, including deeper integration with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code and a broad quantum chemistry library to help drive chemistry research using the power of quantum computing. The improvements, which also include new Q# language capabilities, were unveiled recently by the Microsoft Quantum Team in […]

Microsoft has updated its Quantum Development Kit with new features, including deeper integration with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code and a broad quantum chemistry library to help drive chemistry research using the power of quantum computing. The improvements, which also include new Q# language capabilities, were unveiled recently by the Microsoft Quantum Team in […]

Developers who want to build Windows 10 apps on ARM architecture now have access to an officially supported software development kit and tools from Microsoft, six months after a preview version first brought the possibilities to eager developers. The Microsoft-supported SDK for building 64-bit ARM apps was announced by Marc Sweetgall, senior program manager for […]