January 16, 2014
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Seriously, Microsoft? You want to get Windows 9 — Windows freakin’ 9 — out in 2015? I get that you want to distance yourself from the Windows 8.x train wreck. Who wouldn’t? But by upgrading Windows on a consumer pace, … Continue reading
January 13, 2014
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Windows 8: worse than Vista. Most people I talk to say so, the numbers back them up, and now it could be that even Microsoft sees the truth. So why did Windows 8 and the Interface Formerly Known As Metro … Continue reading
November 4, 2013
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Computerworld – Having seen Windows 8.1, I have a question I’d like to ask Microsoft: “Is that the best you could do?” My assessment: Windows 8.1 doesn’t suck as much as Windows 8. If you felt, when using Windows 8, … Continue reading
October 15, 2013
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The big file-sharing leap came with Samba 4. That release brought Linux an Active Directory (AD) domain controller. With that version, Samba gained the ability to share files with both old and new Windows systems by bringing its support up … Continue reading
October 7, 2013
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First things first. Google is not sneaking Chrome OS into Windows 8.x. With the right experimental version of the Chrome Web browser and right settings, it may look like it and act like it, but it’s not Chrome OS. A … Continue reading
September 17, 2013
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New Orleans: Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced at Linuxcon that it is bringing its Juju cloud orchestration program to Windows Azure. With it, cloud managers can easily deploy Web and network services on Ubuntu Linux in an Azure cloud. Ubuntu on … Continue reading