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Kathleen Richards

Kathleen Richards is the editor of RedDevNews.com and executive editor of Visual Studio Magazine.
Emerging Tech

Microsoft plans major update for 'Mango' Windows Phone

Microsoft on April 13 unveiled a major tools update to come for Windows Phone "Mango," plus other developer news, at its MIX 11 developer conference.

Infrastructure

Windows Phone, IE 9 dominate developers' conference

Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.

Digital Government

Microsoft's new TFS 2010 template is pure Scrum

With Team Foundation Server 2010, Agile project management is greatly improved. Scrum developers now have another option. Microsoft announced a new Scrum process template at Tech Ed.

Infrastructure

Microsoft puts its focus on the cloud

The day-one keynote at TechEd North America centered on product enhancements to the Windows Azure platform, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows Server and Communications Server, among other technologies.

Infrastructure

Developers rank Microsoft .NET ahead of Google and other frameworks

Evans Data conducted a global survey of 425 developers earlier this month to find out their overall satisfaction with software frameworks and Web platforms.

Infrastructure

Microsoft rings in 2010 with commercial cloud services

Microsoft is starting the initial phase of commercializing its cloud-computing platform this month, as planned. The company announced on Monday that developers can now upgrade their Windows Azure preview accounts to commercial subscriptions or register for new services.

Infrastructure

Microsoft issues Release Candidate 1 of ASP.NET Model View Controller

Release Candidate 1 of ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.