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Holiday ‘Bliss’: Microsoft’s latest ugly sweater features iconic Windows XP desktop image

GeekWire

The latest ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft features the Windows XP “Bliss” desktop image. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default desktop image in the time of Windows XP.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

From Windows 1.0 to Windows 10 The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. At the time, many complained that Windows 1.0

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

GeekWire

During his time as a partner at Madrona, Chakrabarti focused on investments in enterprise and cloud-based infrastructure companies. Founded in 2001, Slalom currently has more than 9,500 employees globally. Hoge spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as group program manager for the Windows 11 user experience.

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Guessing the next big technology career path

Virtualized Greek

I know now that investing in my Cisco certification in 2001 was a much better idea than updating my Novell Certification. OpenStack, DevOpps, Network Virtualization (SDN), Public Cloud manager, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and similar roles compete for your personal resources. However, it wasn’t so clear cut at the time.

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Database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL

Galido

Intelligent Converters is a software vendor specializing in solutions for database conversion, migration and synchronization since 2001. It supports all versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL including cloud solutions. The product provides command line version in order to automate and to schedule database conversion.

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Your move, PS5

The Verge

While Nintendo’s Switch, Wii U, Wii, GameCube, and N64 have kept up neatly with inflation to cost around $300 each in modern money, they haven’t competed on technical performance since the GameCube in 2001. ($299

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