The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Microsoft has been working to bring win32 desktop apps and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps closer together in recent years. It’s the latest twist in Microsoft’s promise of universal apps that run across multiple Windows 10 devices, and Microsoft is now referring to traditional desktop apps and UWP ones as simply “Windows apps.”.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2021

The last 18 months have been an audio-visual adventure, requiring many of us to improve and refine our at-home tech setups for virtual meetings and remote work. Stepping out from behind the virtual booth to participate in this episode is Curt Milton, who edits and produces the GeekWire Podcast every week. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You may enjoy your favorite books virtually on your computer, laptop, or smartphone. If the ton of options across ePUB reading software intimidate you, and you are struggling to find the best ePUB reader, here’s a list of the most sought-after ePUB readers for iOS, Android, and Windows in 2023. How do you do that, you ask?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Gimp , for example, instead of Photoshop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

By 2019, with an SD-WAN in place, the firm had deployed video-enabled Microsoft SharePoint and Teams on its Windows-based corporate laptops and had migrated its accounting practice management to Microsoft Azure. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. It will be interesting to see how this acquisition affects the virtualization industry. TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.) So the big question becomes, “Will the Sanbolic acquisition change things?”

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Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2020

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella, has taken a new stance on open-source , which to some is a complete flip-flop from the Microsoft of the past. Windows Terminal. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Satya was key in transforming Microsoft from a Windows-first company to a cloud-first company. The 2018 GitHub acquisition brought the open-source development community into the Microsoft ecosystem, fostering collaboration while also demonstrating Microsoft’s commitment to open-source development.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Dustin Carlino released the alpha version of A/B Street on Monday, complete with a trailer on YouTube (above), writing in a post on Reddit that he has spent the past two years working on the open source computer game. “I kept going because I didn’t see light rail expansion saving the day soon enough. .

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Verge senior editor Tom Warren also joins the show to expand on the announcement of Microsoft’s Mesh mixed reality platform and how it may be the “virtual future” of Microsoft Team meetings. Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings. Microsoft’s Windows 10 UI overhaul continues with new system icons.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Developers will be able to select from a range of proprietary and open-source LLMs; choose data sources, including Microsoft Fabric OneLake and Azure AI Search for vector embeddings, enabling responses to be fine-tuned with real-time data without having to retrain the whole model; and monitor their models’ performance once deployed.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Christian Posta talks about how microservices are not the only approach to software design, and then walks through the recent shift in Istio—the open source service mesh—from a microservices-based architecture to a more monolithic approach.

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SPF13

JUNE 29, 2011

t compete with the lead amazon has, they turned the tables by open sourcing their technology and defining standards along with a group of other cloud providers to form OpenServer. VMware bringing their decades of virtualization experience to their offering. VMware disrupts with open source PaaS play. and Joyent.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Murano (a service for assisting in the deployment of Windows-based services on OpenStack). Inktank Ceph Enterprise will include: Open source Ceph (version 0.67).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Key excerpt (for me) from this article was this statement: “…creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the best interest of the companies most heavily investing in OpenStack’s development.”

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Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Nigel Poulton attended DockerCon EU and has an article sharing some early thoughts on the state of Docker and Windows containers. The Windows architecture is so dramatically different from UNIX/Linux that trying to adapt per-process containers is quite naturally going to be more than a little bit challenging. Virtualization.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Covering vista, Linux, Ubuntu, SQL server, mac os, enterprise, UNIX, open source, AMD, ERP – Techworld.com. Building Clouds.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Shifting gears a bit, Golub talks a bit more about the changes over the last 3 years in regards to Docker (the open source project) itself. Hykes says these rules are the impetus behind the separation between Enterprise Edition and Community Edition, and why there are tools like Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Michael Dales shares his experience trying out Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a Linux development environment. Chin-Fah Heoh has a write-up from Storage Field Day 19 about a range of open source projects and initiatives related to storage. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. Equifax also waited a week to scan its network for apps that remained vulnerable. [1]

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. As of January 14, Windows 7 is now End of Life (EOL), as pointed out here by Sergiu Gatlan. Virtualization. James Hamilton is back with a post on the AWS Graviton2 ARM processors.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. CloudTweaks.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Virtualization. Just in the last couple of weeks, the original author of TSClientX e-mailed me to say that he’d revived the project after 9 years so that users of OS X 10.4 Way to go, Daniel! Bill Ho shares a walkthrough to setting up vSphere Integrated Containers 0.8.0-rc3.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. CloudTweaks.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Virtualization.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

It was the beginning of something small but profound: the Uxn , a virtual ecosystem to make experimental tools and games that exists outside the revolving door of always-online tech anchored to subscriptions, needlessly complicated upgrades, and increasingly problematic forms of digital ownership. Pino, Hundred Rabbits’ 1982 Yamaha sailboat.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Mark Peek talks about Dispatch , the open source serverless framework VMware recently released. Virtualization.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment. Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

I used this to get started on my Linux migration journey, focusing on writing my blog and other open source efforts. I first went with Chromium (open source version of Chrome), and then realized that the 32-bit Iceweasel plugin was the way to go. Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? This was a problem for me.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Games aren’t unplayable on the tiny display — I actually found it a lot easier than I expected to see what was going on — but it’s still more comfortable with Sega’s micro-sized resurrection of its old Game Gear clip-on magnification accessory, the Big Window. Personally, I like what Sega has done here. The system software is very simple.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. Linux Study Group in May. What do you do next? Then this course is for you.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Virtualization. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license. This is such an invaluable resource. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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