On May 25th, 2021 with 104 comments
Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release,...
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On October 25th, 2020 with 52 comments
"No one asked Microsoft to port its Edge browser to Linux," writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, adding "Indeed, very few people asked for Edge on...
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On October 20th, 2020 with 97 comments
Last month, Microsoft officials said they'd release a preview of the new Chromium-based Edge browser for Linux some time in October. On October 20, Microsoft...
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On October 17th, 2020 with 98 comments
Last month Eric Raymond suggested Microsoft might be moving to a Linux kernel that emulates Windows. ZDNet contributing editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols...
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On October 16th, 2020 with 102 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier, Microsoft released the source for Windows Calculator. And now, that calculator app has been ported to Linux by...
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On October 11th, 2020 with 239 comments
Following up on speculation from Eric Raymond and ZDNet contributing editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, open source advocate Jack Wallen imagines what would...
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On October 3rd, 2020 with 89 comments
ZDNet reports:
At the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual developers' conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0 would soon...
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On September 27th, 2020 with 276 comments
Most of Microsoft's money now comes from its cloud service Azure, points out open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond. Now he posits a future where Windows...
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On September 26th, 2020 with 56 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah quotes iTnews:
A software engineer in Melbourne is whiling away the city's lockdown by creating a tool that DOS users so...
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On September 19th, 2020 with 40 comments
"Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers," reports ZDNet, "requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its...
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On September 15th, 2020 with 105 comments
Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to the Linux kernel with its aim being "to create a complete virtualization stack with Linux and Microsoft...
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On June 24th, 2020 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is moving forward with its promise to extend enterprise security protections to non-Windows...
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On June 6th, 2020 with 88 comments
"The trend towards open-source software on government computers is gathering pace in Germany," reports ZDNet:
In the latest development, during coalition...
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On June 6th, 2020 with 37 comments
"A newly uncovered form of ransomware is going after Windows and Linux systems," reports ZDNet, "in what appears to be a targeted campaign."
Named Tycoon after...
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On May 19th, 2020 with 117 comments
At Build 2020 today, Microsoft gave developers a slew of new tools to coax them into using Windows over macOS or Linux. From a report: Windows Terminal is now...
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On April 8th, 2020 with 111 comments
Microsoft is planning to fully integrate Linux file access into the built-in File Explorer. The Verge reports: A new Linux icon will be available in the...
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On April 7th, 2020 with 89 comments
Microsoft has revealed details about a new project it has been working on for Linux kernel. From a report: Named Integrity Policy Enforcement -- or IPE -- the...
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On March 25th, 2020 with 51 comments
couchslug shares an excerpt from Ars Technica: When software and operating system giant Microsoft announced its support for inclusion of the exFAT filesystem...
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On March 16th, 2020 with 168 comments
ZDNet reports that there'll be some changes in Microsoft's second version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, WSL2:
Microsoft has decided to remove the Linux...
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On December 10th, 2019 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today launched Microsoft Teams for Linux in public preview. No, that's not a typo -- Microsoft Teams is indeed the first...
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On November 10th, 2019 with 194 comments
"Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux, for all the Microsoft fans running Linux," jokes the headline at the Inquirer. ("We can just imagine the amount of...
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On November 10th, 2019 with 100 comments
Microsoft is planning to bring its Defender antivirus to Linux systems next year, reports ZDNet:
Microsoft announced the brand change from Windows Defender to...
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On October 7th, 2019 with 141 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference, I talked to Linus Torvalds and several other of the Linux kernel's top...
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On October 5th, 2019 with 93 comments
Microsoft appears to be porting its Edge browser to Linux, reports ZDNet:
"We on the MS Edge Dev team are fleshing out requirements to bring Edge to Linux,...
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On August 28th, 2019 with 119 comments
An anonymous reader writes: For years, Microsoft used its patents as a way to profit from open-source products. The poster-child for Microsoft's intellectual...
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On July 1st, 2019 with 83 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Three and a half years ago, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Microsoft's cloud, said, "One in four [Azure] instances are...
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On June 28th, 2019 with 113 comments
Microsoft's transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that...
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On June 1st, 2019 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Russian authorities have moved closer to implementing their plan of replacing the Windows OS on military...
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On May 11th, 2019 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quote CRN:
IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared the keynote-session stage with Red Hat CEO Jim...
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On April 4th, 2019 with 61 comments
Following the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac platforms, Microsoft today is releasing a snap version of Visual Studio Code. A report adds:...
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