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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products.

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6 uncertainties that will shape the future of mobile operating systems

Trends in the Living Networks

I began by looking at the mobile operating system landscape, showing the forecasts recently made by Gartner, as below. I would not make the same forecasts for a number of reasons, however Gartner’s figures are a reasonable stab at what mobile operating system shares might be. Growth of Bada app market.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans has a lovely article on Git commits that is well worth reading.

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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. With Windows 1.0, Where it all began: Windows 1.0

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other. It provides consulting and product and solution support services.

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Five new features Android 11 borrows from the iPhone

The Verge

Android 11’s first public beta has arrived today, and it brings a bunch of big new features to Google’s operating system — including a few that should look pretty familiar to iOS users who have had similar functionality for some time. Easy media switching controls. Photo by Avery White for The Verge.

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Microsoft Surface business surges as upcoming dual-screen Android device surfaces in FCC filings

GeekWire

Revenue in Microsoft’s Surface hardware business jumped 28% to more than $1.7 Microsoft executives including Chief Product Officer Panos Panay have been offering glimpses of the Surface Duo device on social media in recent weeks. billion in the quarter ended June 30 , its biggest result ever outside the holidays.