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Connected Cloud Step Into the Future with Grey Matter Grey Matter Issue 69 | Summer 2016 Building on 33 years of software know how Connected Cloud Step into the future with Grey Matter Cloud services The top providers compared Bing Maps V8 What’s new for the mapping control See page 8 WIN! for details STREAMING RESULTS YOU CAN COUNT ON Intel® Video Pro Analyzer Part of the Intel® Media Server Studio Product Family Improve video quality with the ability to inspect the entire decoding process with the new Intel® Video Pro Analyzer. Analyse, compare, test, and debug streams in developing high-quality media encoders. Get deep video coding analysis for HEVC, VP9, AVC, and MPEG-2. • Test/debug media encoders • View and analyse, compare, and debug streams • Innovate for the next-gen colour gamut supporting Ultra HD content Intel® Video Pro Analyzer supports Microsoft Windows*, Linux*, and OS X*. For more information, contact us. Phone: 01364 654100 Email: [email protected] Visit: greymatter.com/hc/imss-2016 Copyright © 2016, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Contents Welcome 4 Software News Microsoft, Parallels, SmartBear and more. Editorial In March 1995, some five years after Tim Berners-Lee created 6 News in brief Editor: .....................................................................Matt Nicholson the first World Wide Web server, Microsoft announced a new Technical editors: .. Sean Wilson, Paul Edwards and competition winner. “design environment for online applications” codenamed ‘Blackbird’ Editorial advisor: ............................................Julia Hopkins 8 Competition News editor: ...................................................... Paul Stephens which would allow developers to create content for the forthcoming Publisher: ..................................................................Andrew King Microsoft Network. MSN was promised to be “more sophisticated” Win a Drone or a FitBit! Contributors: ........Tim Anderson, Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe, Kay Ewbank, Jon than anything the nascent World Wide Web could offer, and accessible Honeyball, Graham Keitch, Paul Stephens directly from the desktop of Windows 95, which was launched that 10 Connected Cloud Design and layout: ..................................... Jason Stanley August. However, in the intervening months, Bill Gates had a change Grey Matter’s solution to Illustration: ............................................................Sholto Walker of heart, taking Microsoft through what BusinessWeek described as “a cloud computing. Web Design: ........................................................Jason Stanley massive about-face.” By the time Windows 95 launched, ‘Blackbird’ had Advertising & Circulation become Internet Studio, MSN was just another website, and Windows Marketing: ................ Ash Khagram, Leanne Bevan NT was showing off its new Internet Information Server (IIS). Gates is no longer involved, but Microsoft watchers cannot fail to Tel: 01364 654100 observe that the company is in the midst of another about-face of Email: [email protected] even greater proportions in its acceptance and indeed embrace of HardCopy is edited for Grey Matter three cross-platform and open source. As Grey Matter’s Connected Cloud times a year by Matt Publishing. It is printed initiative demonstrates, Microsoft is now delivering applications that by Pepper Communications in Plymouth. run not only on Windows but also on iOS, Mac OS and Android, and is Copyright © 2016 Grey Matter Ltd. All rights encouraging developers to do the same through its integration of reserved. No part of this publication may be Xamarin into Visual Studio. It’s even announced a version of SQL 16 Heads in the cloud reproduced in any form without prior Server that will run on Linux. The top cloud service consent of the copyright holder. providers compared. All trademarks acknowledged. As a long-term strategy, this makes a lot of sense. Windows still HardCopy is a trademark and Grey Matter a rules the desktop, but the desktop is becoming less important and it is 20 Bing Maps V8 registered trademark owned by Grey Matter Android and iOS that hold sway on tablets and phones. Windows What’s new for Microsoft’s Limited. While all reasonable attempts are mapping control. made to ensure accuracy, Grey Matter and Server and associated applications such as Exchange are important Matt Publishing disclaim any liability earners, but can be delivered more effectively as subscription-based 23 The latest on ASP.NET whatsoever for any use of information services through Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft Office is a significant Major changes for herein. Prices exclude VAT unless specified. Microsoft’s web platform. source of revenue, but will remain dominant thanks to the sheer Cover Images: Jason Stanley weight of Office documents out there, regardless of platform. 29 Inside Data MJgraphics/Shutterstock Data integration solutions. venimo/Shutterstock In order to get a taste of this new world, I recently acquired a Samsung Galaxy Tab A on which I installed the Android version of 30 Straight talking Advertisers Index Microsoft Office, available free of charge from Google Play. So far I’ve We talk to Miguel de Icaza about Xamarin. 2 Intel Media Server been very impressed by the tablet itself, but not so much by the Office 7 Adobe Acrobat DC apps. The most full-featured is OneNote, although I did need to move 32 And Another Thing Jon Honeyball ponders 9 Embarcadero my Notebooks from DropBox to OneDrive before it would recognise the 180 second rule. 12 Office 365 them. More disappointing is Word, which seems barely to offer the 15 Microsoft Dynamics features already available through existing apps such as MobiSystems 34 Short Cuts Views from the edge. 19 Grey Matter Services OfficeSuite Pro. You do get more if you subscribe to Office 365, but 22 Visual Studio even then you don’t get things like Outline or Draft views - features I’d 25 Microsoft Azure happily pay for if the option was available to me. 27 Bing Maps I appreciate it’s early days, but it does seem to me that Microsoft Register Now! 28 Veritas has some way to go before it fully embraces its new strategy. 31 GFI Matt Nicholson, Editor, HardCopy HardCopy magazine is published three times 33 Paessler a year. Make sure you don’t miss out by 35 Intel Parallel Studio XE registering or updating your details at 36 Citrix www.greymatter.com/hc/subscribe Grey Matter Limited Prigg Meadow, Read HardCopy online Ashburton, To view buyer’s guides, news, blogs and Devon, TQ13 7DF, UK forums go to HardCopy online at [email protected] www.greymatter.com/hc/hardcopy Matt Nicholson grey matter Editor, HardCopy @GreyMatter_News software know how Grey Matter • 01364 654100 • HardCopy 3 News Software News Microsoft buys Xamarin – then gives it away Microsoft • www.greymatter.com/microsoft/ Microsoft has underlined a significant for a cross-platform system it doesn’t abstract change in its cross-platform app native APIs, its purpose instead being to let development strategy with the acquisition of developers use C# features such as Linq queries Xamarin, developer of tools and runtimes which while calling local APIs directly from C#. For nevertheless represents a change of attitude for allow apps written in Microsoft’s C# language to those who prefer a write-once route there’s the Microsoft, who viewed the Mono platform with run on Android and iOS. The tools will now be XAML-based Xamarin.Forms, which allow direct some wariness in its early days. It’s also a included in Visual Studio at no extra charge, API calls as necessary. Development is via either change of direction; the day after buying while the code has been made open source and a Visual Studio plugin or Xamarin’s own Studio Xamarin Microsoft abandoned its Android donated to the .NET Foundation. IDE, along with the Xamarin Test Cloud and Bridge project, which allowed Android apps to Xamarin grew out of the Mono project, an Xamarin Insights analytic tool. run on Windows, and is instead focussing on open source .NET framework designed to allow Microsoft and Xamarin have been allowing C# apps to run on Android. Microsoft is C# apps to run on Linux, and still uses a Mono collaborating for some time, particularly on thought to have paid around $400 million for framework for Android deployment. Unusually Visual Studio integration. The move Xamarin. Embarcadero tightens focus, releases RAD Studio 10.1 ‘Berlin’ Embarcadero • www.greymatter.com/embarcadero/ In our Winter issue we reported that connectivity, multi-device previews and make changes and see the results in real time. database and programming tools improvements to native platform support. A long list of detail updates includes vendor Embarcadero had been acquired by “Core technology enhancements” to Android 6.0 support, address book access in high-end database tools supplier Idera. Change Embarcadero’s ThingWare, ThingConnect and Android and iOS, CLANG 3.3 and C++ 11 came quickly, and in March Embarcadero ThingPoints components include more language support, improved APIs for Amazon announced that it was focusing exclusively on Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi and Android Wear support Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and compatibility its developer tools, while its database and and features, while the company says its GetIt with the WinRT Bluetooth API. There’s also a design products were moving to Idera. Now libraries provides easy access to
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