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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. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. Windows 7 arrived in 2009 to clean up the Vista mess.

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Fun Linux Things

CIO Musings

This server also runs the network computing software from Berkley called "BOINC", which is a distributed grid computing environment. On this I run the BOINC grid computing software and participate in projects to map cancer markers, sequence the ebola genome and do AIDS research. Circa 2009. Thats all it does. Sky's the limit.

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.

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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

The Verge

The company shifted from PowerPC to Intel chips in 2006, but ditched support for the former in 2009; OS X Snow Leopard was Intel-only.). Rosetta 2 is mostly there to minimize the impact on end-users and their experience when they buy a new Mac with Apple Silicon,” says Angela Yu, founder of the software-development school App Brewery. “If

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. It was one of the first software startups in Austin and the U.S.,

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Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial

The Verge

We’ve known for a while that Apple isn’t going to make iMessage available outside of iOS devices, but this trial showed exactly how thoroughly Apple has considered expanding iMessage into other operating systems — and exactly why the company doesn’t want to. 7] Apple gains a lot by slow-walking progressive web apps on the iPhone.

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