Software Year 2019 in review

This is what impressed me in 2019

  1. On 8 January https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
  2. On 21 January https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp : Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 released after January 2019 will not be available for business, commercial or production use without a commercial license.
  3. On 8 February Ie default browser
  4. On 12 February https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows95-v20-lets-you-play-doom-wolfenstein-3d-and-more/
  5. On 7 March Microsoft Calculator implementation
  6. On 13 March https://send.firefox.com/
  7. On 29 March https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/future-through-software-developers-red-hat-key
  8. On 3 April https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes
  9. On 18 May https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/microsoft-open-sources-algorithm-that-gives-bing-some-of-its-smarts/
  10. On 23 May https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/
  11. On 24 May Photo to OCR to Excel
  12. On 2 June https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-5/
  13. On 2 June https://blog.angular.io/version-8-of-angular-smaller-bundles-cli-apis-and-alignment-with-the-ecosystem-af0261112a27
  14. On 7 June https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/microsoft-and-oracle-link-up-their-clouds/
  15. On 11 June UIPath – with CoreWF
  16. On 11 June CoreWCF – community : https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/WCF-Decision/
  17. On 12 June Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
  18. On 24 June https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/
  19. On 25 July Oracle EF Core
  20. On 5 August https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-will-disable-vbscript-in-internet-explorer-11-from-this-month/
  21. On 2 September https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/dotnet/odtvscodequickstart.html
  22. On 11 September https://www.zdnet.com/article/java-finally-goes-all-in-on-open-source-with-the-release-of-jakarta-ee-8/
  23. On 14 October https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
  24. On 9 November TypeScript 3.7
  25. On 11 December https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Microsoft-Teams-is-now-available-on-Linux/ba-p/1056267
  26. On 11 December .NET Core 3.1