Ace Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley swears she’s not drinking. Microsoft really is getting ready to enable customers to make Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Windows Azure, its public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud service. That Microsoft was going to enable users to set up persistent VMs on Azure came as no surprise. While [...]
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Microsoft reluctantly bows to Linux users
January 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Microsoft · Operating System · Server · Virtualization · Windows
Operating systems don’t matter much anymore
December 5th, 2011 · Comments Off
For decades now, we’ve been fussing about operating systems. “Mac OS X is better than Windows!” “Why upgrade to Windows 7 when XP works just fine?” “You’re all wrong. Linux rules.” Such arguments are about to become history. Thanks to advances in virtualization, cloud technology and the Web, it matters less and less to users [...]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Desktop · Infrastructure · Internet · Linux · Mac OS X · Network · Network Services · Operating System · SmartPhone · Tablet · Virtualization · Web browser · Web Services · Windows
Fedora 16, Red Hat’s new community Linux distribution, arrives
November 8th, 2011 · Comments Off
If you want to see the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you need only no farther than Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, Fedora. In its brand new release, Fedora 16, Verne, Fedora comes with multiple cloud and virtualization improvements. Of course, what most Fedora users, as opposed to RHEL system administrators, will be [...]
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Red Hat’s biggest enemy? VMware
August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off
Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its big break into corporate Linux? All good guesses, but Red Hat [...]
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Novell’s patents bought by Microsoft, Apple, EMC, & Oracle
December 16th, 2010 · Comments Off
When CPTN Holdings appeared out of the blue to snap up Novell’s patent portfolio, the only thing anyone knew about them was that Microsoft was behind the group and that’s all Microsoft had to say about its Novell intellectual property (IP) purchase. Now, thanks to Germany’s anti-trust body, the Bundeskartellamt, we know that Microsoft’s CPTN [...]
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