Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 ...

There's something in the air, and this time, it's not from Apple. Adobe announced today the official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, its technology for merging web and desktop application development, along ...

Try as they might, open source desktop apps never gained much ground against proprietary rivals -- and maybe they never will Fans of the open source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice.org breathed ...

Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows ...

That automation delivers a number of benefits, including expediting application development to improving the agility of change management. That agility will prove to be important for those developers ...