Author: Daniel Robinson

New 8in tablet is based on Intel Cherry Trial Atom and will ship with Windows 10 next month

Four Satellite ranges coming in July

Build 10136 offers fixes and UI tweaks, but will install only on Windows Phone 8.1

Power8 can deliver the same performance using fewer cores, leading to lower licence costs for key enterprise software

Developers can now write event-driven code in Java 8

Identity federation enables firms to manage how corporate IDs can be linked with those for public cloud services

On-premise file-sharing appliance now links to existing network storage assets

Microsoft continues to refine and stabilise Windows 10 as the world awaits the launch

Big Blue to offer Spark from the Bluemix cloud and invest in training data scientists to use it

New generation of general purpose instances ideal for in-memory databases and Microsoft SharePoint