Recognizing that many organizations are under competitive pressure to evolve their applications ever more quickly, Microsoft has been updating its programming tools to accommodate fast paced “devops”-style development environments.

“Everyone wants to go faster,” said Brian Harry, Microsoft technical fellow working as the product unit manager for the company’s Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management software.

Devops is an emerging IT practice of more tightly integrating the development cycle of an application with the subsequent operation of that application. It can cut the length of time it requires to update a customer-facing or internal application.

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