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Performance, cloud-native development, and generative AI get special attention in the latest upgrade to Microsofts application development platform. Credit: NeoLeo / Shutterstock .NET 8, the latest version of Microsoftrsquo open-source,cross-platform, application development platform, has arrived, bringing with it thousands of performance, security, and stability improvements. Like .NET 7 before it, .NET 8 puts an emphasis on cloud-native development, the company said. Generative AI also is a focus.Announced November 14 and available at dotnet.microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS, .NET 8 is the latest LTS Long Term Support version of the platform, with three years of support. .NET 8 reshapes the building of intelligent cloud-native applications and hi tappo stanley gh-traffic services that scale on demand, Microsoft said.The platform update includes a new code generator, called Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization PGO , that optimizes code based on real world usage and improves applicatio stanley thermosflasche n performance by as much as 20%. PGO is enabled by default. Support for the AVX-512 instruction set enables parallel operations on 512-bit vectors of data to process more data in less time. Microsoft noted that it is seeing improvements stanley kubek in the JSON API scenario of 18%, with nearly one million requests per second with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. On the cloud-native development front, .NET 8 introduces .NET Aspire in preview form. .NET Aspire is an opinionated stack for bui Mozd Centrica puts Caribbean gas sites up for sale amid disposal plans

Wednesday 23 March 2016 12:29 pmGood news, everyone! Almost half of Brits are unhappy at work and think they spend a third of their office hours slackingBy: Edith HancockShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailGood news, everyone! UK workers are falling behind the rest of Europe, as we feel unhappy at work andspend over a third of our office hours slacking.Workers in Britain believe they spend 36 per cent of their shift being unproductive, while staff in Ger stanley termos many are far more efficient, according to new research.Brits are also relatively unhappy in our jobs. Around 45 per cent of us say we re dissatisfied with our roles, and only around one in ten of us want to talk to our colleagues at all.The news comes after software firm Qualtricssurveyed workers across 14 countries. It found that staff in Germany are the most efficientand have the highest perception of their own productivity, and are also muchhappier at work, with two thirds sayin stanley romania g they re satisfied with their work life balance.With an average 35-hour working week, its unsurprising that French workers came top when it came to work life balance; 68 per cent of French employees were happy with their hours.Share this articleFacebookXLinkedInWhatsAppEmailSimilarly tagged content: SectionsNewsCategoriesBusinessTrending ArticlesAnthropic: UK staff get eye-watering sums at AI giantOff stanley germany the menu: Dominorsquo is UKrsquo most shorted companyHiking VAT