Microsoft has now ended all support for Windows XP, but it can be replaced with a free alternative computer operating system that people have been using around the world for many years. Source: Tech
Day: April 8, 2014
How Microsoft can disrupt the tech industry again
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•FORTUNE Microsoft’s stock has stagnated as investors have lost faith in the company’s plans for its future. Source: Tech
Free Software Foundation statement on Heartbleed vulnerability
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•Today, news broke of a major security vulnerability in OpenSSL. The bug, which is being referred to as "heartbleed", allows unauthorized access to information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure much of the Internet. In response to the news, Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan made the following statement:…
Heartbeat SSL Flaw Puts Linux Distros at Risk
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•NEWS ANALYSIS: Hours after the flaw’s disclosure, many Linux distributions didn’t have a patch. Source: Tech
Intel and Cloudera: Why we're better together for Hadoop
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•Cloudera’s CEO and Intel’s GM of datacenter software explain what Intel’s $740m investment in Cloudera means for the future of the big-data analytics platform. Source: Tech
IBM Brings New Cloud Offerings, Pricing to the Mainframe
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•IBM announced new cloud offering, research projects and pricing options for mainframe users looking to deploy cloud workloads on IBM’s Linux-based mainframes. Source: Tech
How Git Redefined Open Source Software Development
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•It’s not hard to come up with a dozen different reasons why the rise of open source development has been a watershed event in both the software and hardware industries. All of us can build new web applications faster with our feet firmly planted on the shoulders of jQuery, Bootstrap, and Apache. Languages like Ruby,…