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Microsoft to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac support in August 2024, suggests other alternatives

Microsoft has announced that the company plans to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac next year. The latest version of the company’s IDE (integrated development environment) for Mac will continue to be supported by Microsoft through August 2024. Microsoft offered the following statement: “With today’s announcement, we’re redirecting our resources and focus to enhance Visual Studio […]

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Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac out the door, includes macOS Mojave support, smaller file sizes, extended Windows tools

The new Parallels Desktop is out and it includes some fairly useful new features. Parallels Desktop 14 for the Mac was released on Tuesday, the new version featuring virtualization tool includes support for Apple’s macOS Mojave operating system, improves overall performance, and adds in support for more Windows features. The new version also improves storage […]

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Microsoft releases Visual Studio development tools for Mac

If you’re interested in writing Visual Studio code on your Mac, this might be for you. Following an extended preview for developers, Microsoft has released Visual Studio for Mac at the company’s Build 2017 developer conference this week. Microsoft offered the following comment about the release today: We are happy to announce the release of […]

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Microsoft hints at bringing Visual Studio to macOS, launch date unknown

It’s a sign of both Microsoft and Apple growing up to the point that they’re sharing development tools for each other’s platforms. Microsoft has announced that it will be launching Visual Studio, its primary coding interface, for macOS. This has been a long time coming, but it’ll allow developers to easily write for platform-independent cloud […]

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Parallels Desktop 12 announced, will be released August 23rd

The perpetually useful Parallels Desktop has just hit version 12. The new version arrives with support for macOS Sierra alongside a new standalone app called Parallels Toolbox, which allows users to perform some simple tasks that aren’t necessarily tied to virtualization. New features include a Windows 10 “always on” function wherein Windows 10 continues to […]