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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

Not only that, but Microsoft’s initial crop of first-party games will also be playable on its last generation Xbox, the Xbox One, as well as Windows PCs. And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games.

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Technology Short Take #62

Scott Lowe

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Servers/Hardware. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Yes, you could run Docker on bare metal and achieve (the author’s words) “massive CapEx benefits” by “eliminating expensive licensing” for VMware. The post also mentions a new version of Windows, Nano Server.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. And now, what has happened is we've got much more massive hardware, much more massive memory, much more massive applications. And software?

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Designs that seem well-suited to virtual and augmented reality headsets, even if they usually support other hardware as well. And if companies approach them with deals for licensed characters or items, they could find a world already populated by knockoffs. Links with outside economic systems so people can profit from virtual goods.

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox

The Verge

The decision to do hardware SKUs was really centered on that. But] if it’s, we’re going to go compete with one hardware competitor and we just want to make it as easy as possible to compare our one product to their one product, that was the thought process that would have you push to say, no, just do one thing. Is it playing out?

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

Vox

Microsoft’s problems with antitrust enforcers began in the early ’90s, when it was investigated by both the FTC and the DOJ over how it used licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to cement the dominance of its Windows operating system. In 1994, Microsoft entered into a consent decree with the DOJ.