Microsoft takes unusual step of providing direct support to unupported systems as targets in 74 countries – including vast swathes of UK hospitals – have been impacted by ransomware attack …read more Source:: Open Source S
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Windows 7
Windows 10 Edge: Watch your printouts until Microsoft fixes wrong number bug
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•Edge displays ‘123456’ in PDF but then prints the numbers ‘114447’. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Why Windows 10 rollout is happening faster than shift from XP to Windows 7
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•Gartner finds that 85 percent of enterprises will have started a Windows 10 deployment by the end of 2017. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Don’t want Windows 10? Dev helps new PCs bypass Microsoft’s block on Windows 7, 8.1 updates
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•A developer has released an unofficial patch to undo Microsoft’s block on updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on newer silicon. …read more Source:: Open Source S
IDG Contributor Network: 8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS
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•By Jim Lynch 8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS Windows has its virtues, but many people simply don’t like it and don’t want it running on their computers. Nor do they wish to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Discover the power of Bash on Windows
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•By Adam Bertram Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market—especially for admin and dev tools—clearly favors Linux. Not to mention the mobile …read more Source:: OpenSource
Kubernetes rounds out Azure options, paves way for Windows Server Containers
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s Kubernetes container management system is now generally available for users of Microsoft’s Azure Container Service. The ACS support is one of a set of changes Microsoft is rolling out to …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Wine 2.0 released: Run Windows apps in Linux
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•By Jim Lynch Wine 2.0 released The Wine developers have been hard at work and now Wine 2.0 has just been released. This version offers thousands of individual changes, support for Microsoft Office 2013 …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: Is Xfce better than Windows 10?
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•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
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