By Jim Lynch Is Xfce better than Windows 10? One of the best things about Linux is the range of choices it offers when it comes to desktop environments. There really is a Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Microsoft’s R tools bring data science to the masses
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•By Simon Bisson One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company that built tools for working with big data problems using the open source statistical programming language …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How Linux scared Microsoft into improving Windows gaming
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•By Jim Lynch How Linux scared Microsoft into improving Windows gaming A former Valve developer recently shared some of the history behind the company’s interest in Linux for gaming. He notes on his blog …read more Source:: OpenSource
‘Hackable’ hypervisor provides lightweight virtualization for Windows and Linux
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Linux kernel developer Ahmed Samy has released an open source hypervisor project that aims to be “simple and lightweight.” KSM is being touted as a way for Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft toolkit eases the agony of WinRT C++ development
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft’s drift away from the proprietary and toward the universal is making its mark on all aspects of Windows software development, including writing C++ software that uses the Windows Runtime …read more Source:: OpenSource
5 lessons from a Chromebook deployment
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•By Galen Gruman Microsoft has been making major strides in allowing management of devices, users, and information across the Exchange and Office 365 ecosystem, with an emphasis on eventual shift to Office …read more Source:: OpenSource
Win-win: Open source .Net pays off for devs
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•By Paul Krill Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .Net server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .Net Core. The announcement was surprising, …read more Source:: OpenSource
EU regulators approve Microsoft’s LinkedIn purchase with concessions
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•Microsoft expects its deal to acquired LinkedIn to close ‘in the coming days,’ now that EU regulators have given the pending acquisition their approval. …read more Source:: Legal
Visual Studio toolkit will build bootable apps
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•By Paul Krill The Cosmos open source OS “construction kit” is looking to create fast, small-footprint applications that are less dependent on hardware. In development since 2006, the kit is not …read more Source:: OpenSource
Azure customer saves Microsoft from an RHEL disaster
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Broken authentication, improperly secured configuration files, and poor certificate management: Attackers could have exploited these issues to compromise any RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) instance on Microsoft Azure. Ian …read more Source:: OpenSource