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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

” The longtime Microsoft hardware chief and executive vice president led the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams. Build silicon, systems and devices that span Windows, client and cloud for an AI world. He also led development of Windows 11. Please join me in wishing him well.

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Third time’s the charm? Countdown is on for another try to launch Boeing’s Starliner

GeekWire

But the two earlier attempts to launch this Crew Flight Test, or CFT, were due to problems with the Atlas V launch system rather than with Starliner. United Launch Alliance’s team replaced the hardware and verified that the system was “good to go,” in the words of the company’s CEO, Tory Bruno.

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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An artist’s conception shows the Space Systems Command’s SpaceDEN facility. Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. “This funding and customer validation is critical to helping us bring modern collaboration tools to the hardware world.”

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.

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What to expect in Windows 11: Former Microsoft PM Kevin Stratvert on the new upgrade

GeekWire

Stratvert is a former Microsoft program manager who left the company to focus full-time on his work as a YouTube creator, producing how-to videos about software and services from Microsoft and others. To paraphrase a certain Spinal Tap guitarist , is it really worthy of taking it up to eleven?

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. While the ads can be easily dismissed, they’re still a frustrating experience in an operating system that’s traditionally been ad-free.

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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

Hardware for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi can be seen in the background. As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back.