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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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
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.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz