A bevy of news from TechEd today: Visual Studio 2013 will be available later this year (with a public preview available at Build 2013 later this month); Microsoft has agreed to acquire InCycle’s InRelease Business Unit; and MSDN subscribers now have use rights to run Windows Azure for virtual machines, websites, cloud services, mobile services, and more.
“These improvements help to make development teams more agile by providing them with simple and scalable access to development and test cloud-based resources,” says S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, today on his blog.
Somasegar detailed each of the announcements, including sharing some of his favorite features of Visual Studio 2013, which focus on agility and productivity, enabling teams to support the continuous delivery cadence that today’s shorter build cycles demand.
“There are many great opportunities to advance the state of the art for developers and development teams building modern apps and managing the modern app lifecycle,” Somasegar says. “With multi-year release cycles vanishing and being replaced by shorter build/measure/learn cycles, development teams are more earnestly incorporating operations and other stakeholders into the development process.”
Brian Harry, a Microsoft Technical Fellow, announced (and demonstrated) the new application lifestyle management capabilities and features in the TechEd keynote today, and also provided extensive details on his blog.
“It’s an exciting time now that we can start talking more openly about what’s coming in our next major release,” Harry says. “As usual, there’s so much I will only be able to just skim the surface with this post. Stay tuned for many more posts on my blog, the ALM blog, the Visual Studio blog and others as we reveal more detailed information about all of the new capabilities.”
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Jennifer Warnick
Microsoft News Center