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25Jan 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Microsoft Windows 10 upcoming features

At this writing things may change either losing some of these features or gaining a few more with the Microsoft Windows 10 preview release. As always Microsoft will show you a batch of nice features which could be in the final release or if they are truly buggy they will get dropped. Top features on Windows 10 1. The Desktop Houston, you have a desktop! Yes, Microsoft finally understood the vital mistake they made by throwing out the desktop which is why people did not drop XP, Vista or Windows 7 to jump to Windows 8. Win10 will fix that by giving the desktop the top priority. 2. The Start menu Windows 10 returns the Start menu to its rightful spot in the lower left-hand corner of the desktop. Windows…

25Jan 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Microsoft: Windows 10 will be free for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 users for 1 year after launch

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Microsoft has announced that all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 for the first year of its launch. Sorry XP and Vista users you most likely will have to purchase a new machine. This is a good move by Microsoft to show that they are willing to admit that the Windows 8 release was a disaster and it is time to move on. As always, Microsoft claims on numbers is very loose but they claim that over 650 million people have upgraded to Windows 7 SP1 and 200 million people updated to Windows 8.1 Update which means that they'll be getting Windows 10 for free. The Windows 10 release will be a big effort to indicate to the world that…

24Jan 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Embarcadero Acquires Castalia and Usertility from TwoDesk Software

Rad Studio Delphi Development

Embarcadero has announced that it acquire Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software. Embarcadero will integrate the productivity features of Castalia into RAD Studio's integrated development environment (IDE) to enhance and optimize the coding experience for both Object Pascal and C++. RAD Studio will also feature Usertility, a powerful and easy to integrate service for monitoring app usage. This acquisition delivers on Embarcadero's commitment to developer productivity by enabling RAD Studio users to get integrated support for these great third-party solutions, which will be sold and supported by Embarcadero. Castalia provides the Rad Studio Delphi developer live syntax checking as well as other assorted IDE software tools. Usertility provides drop-in application usage analytics for software written in Delphi, where and how many active users, does the software crash, version…

07Jan 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Lazarus Version 1.2.6 for Windows is available!

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The Pascal compiler Lazarus has released version 1.2.6 for Windows. The suggestion is to install the 32-bit Windows version due to the instability of the 64-bit version. Lazarus comes in 2 other flavors, one for Linux and one for Apple OSX. The concept is that you write and use one source code base with only having to recompile on the operating system you are using at the moment which could be Linux, Apple OS or Windows. You can install Lazarus based on your operating system by going to Sourceforge Installation procedures The Windows and Linux installation are pretty straight forward allowing you to remove the previous version or you can maintain multiple versions. That is up to the developer. The Apple OS needs 3 different files to be installed to…

07Jan 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Vote for your favorite programming language at Code2014

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Vote for you favorite programming languages as well as viewing what others are up to for the year 2014, Click Here What does a programming language mean in today's market is vastly different than 10 years ago where in universities you were still learning how to design / develop with a compiler but after you review code2014, you will see that Javascript is a top contender for a language. With that being said, do you think a scripting language is similar to a programming language. The vote is up to you. Remember you can twitter #Code2014 and vote today!