The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. If you think that sounds like a pretty intense role reversal for Apple and Microsoft, well, you’re not wrong.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2017

The next version of Windows Server will let you run Linux containers using Hyper-V isolation (and connect to them with bash scripts), encrypt network segments on software-defined networks and deploy the Host Guardian Service as a Shielded VM rather than needing a three-node physical cluster.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Microsoft has released the first preview version of its Android apps support in Windows 11. It’s available to testers in the Beta Channel version of Windows 11, which means you’ll need to opt into the Windows Insider program to get access. The Windows Subsystem for Android powers the entire experience.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “We wanted to take all the savings that we could get from manufacturing and turn that into lower prices for customers overall.”

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Shortly after I announced my intention to migrate to Linux as my primary desktop OS , a number of other folks contacted me and said they had made the same choice or they had been encouraged by my decision to also try it themselves. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? I was a heavy Windows user due to corporate requirements.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, I’ve stepped up my work on a Linux migration, and I’m happy to report that I’ve made some progress. Linux Distribution. I’ve looked at a fair number of Linux distributions. I also went back and looked again at Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint. Here’s a quick update on where things stand so far.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Kano is releasing a second-generation model of its buildable Windows 10 PC, which keeps the $299.99 The overall form factor — a convertible 2-in-1 tablet with an attachable keyboard that also doubles as a protective case — is the same as last year’s model , but Kano has made big improvements to the internal hardware.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Microsoft is working on Office updates for the new Mac silicon, and Word and Excel are already running natively on the new Mac processors, with PowerPoint even using Apple’s Metal tech for rendering.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 10, 2022

The beleaguered cloud gaming service promised to usher in a new era of gaming free of expensive hardware, but like most too-good-to-be-true products, Stadia has overpromised and underdelivered. Google Stadia was slow off the starting blocks following its launch in 2019, to put it gently. In fact, after a year, Google… Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

That number might be surprisingly easy to grow over time, as Luna runs on Windows servers and Nvidia GPUs in Amazon’s AWS compute cloud, so developers can bring their existing Windows games over to those to get them running on Luna. Microsoft Game Pass Ultimate streaming, aka xCloud. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Microsoft offers a similar service called Microsoft Azure Stack. The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Virtualization. Here’s a great way.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Virtualization. Here’s a great way.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Here’s an article describing how to establish a site-to-site VPN between a Cisco ASA and Microsoft Azure. Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Thomas Maurer has a “first impressions” post on the Microsoft Surface Book 2. (I I must admit I’ve been considering adding a Microsoft device to my collection.). Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). Still, the idea is pretty cool.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows. Hand shows a Windows 8-based 8" tablet from Dell, the start of a new family of products that will be branded Venue.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Servers/Hardware. Does your head hurt yet?). Pete Lumbis shows you how. It’s pretty cool stuff.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. By the way, have you heard about Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration ?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Mark Church from Docker provides an update on Windows containers with Docker and Kubernetes , specifically calling out the support for Windows node as of the Kubernetes 1.14 configurations. Very handy!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Looks like Microsoft’s Nano Server is headed in a new direction.

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Sean Daniel

JUNE 12, 2012

Book Give-away : Win free copy of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide , just by commenting! I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer focusing on Infrastructure Products. Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS 2011 Configuration from PACKT Publishing. Good luck to all.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. is now GA and supported by Microsoft. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Nothing this time around.

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Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Before I joined Microsoft, I spent countless hours with my roommates with Windows NT4 server, Proxy Server, and more software, trying to share an Internet connection with my room mates. Posted by Sean Daniel.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon’s new Luna cloud gaming platform is powered by Windows servers and Nvidia GPUs. Luna supports more than 100 games thanks to this Windows support, allowing developers to quickly move their existing Windows games over to an AWS instance and provide cloud streaming access to subscribers. Image: Amazon.

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Over the course of the year, Microsoft’s proprietary programming language, C #, witnessed a decline in demand. C Sharp is a simple and modern general-purpose language – an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. It is available for GNU / Linux. It is used in different applications such as.NET.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

The first escalation occurred when Apple laid out in clear terms why it has no plans to ever approve cloud gaming services from its tech rivals Google and Microsoft. When the company explained why Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud can’t ever exist on iOS, condemnation of the move was swift even among Apple-focused sites.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. Thomas Maurer has a nice post on first steps with Windows Containers. Will van Antwerpen points out that Unity support for Linux has been removed from VMware Workstation 12 (per the release notes).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. Image: Microsoft Corp). Microsoft: 300,000 Servers in Container Farm. By: Rich Miller July 15th, 2013.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software.

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