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Submission + - Did Microsoft secretly buy Parallels? (businessinsider.com)

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on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @03:57PM

Julie188 writes: "If you think that Stephen Elop was a Trojan plant from Microsoft into Nokia, you should see what Microsoft is doing with Parallels. Looks like the reason for Microsoft minions to take over Parallels has to do with its hosting software — as a way to squeeze Office 365 onto people already using cloud versions of Exchange. BUT Microsoft probably doesn't mind getting its fingers on Parallels popular desktop virtualization app, unbeknownst to all those Linux users of it."

Submission + - Cap for 2012 H-1B visas already hit (businessinsider.com)

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on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @07:07PM

Julie188 writes: "The jobless numbers don't reflect it, but there's a shortage of skilled workers available to fill high paying tech jobs. So it would seem by the rush to hire H-1B talent from overseas. It only took six months for U.S. companies to hit the 65,000 cap for visas (and this doesn't include 20,000 additional petitions for those who are exempt from the cap — or anyone already in the U.S. on a visa). And guess who leads the pack in overseas hiring?"

Submission + - Barnes & Noble names Microsoft's disputed Andr (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:35PM

Julie188 writes: "B&N is really blowing the lid off of what Microsoft is doing and how they are forcing money from Android. It has accused Microsoft of requiring overly restricted NDA agreements from those even entering into patent license talks. Because it is disputing Microsoft's claims, and the restrictions of its own NDA signed with Redmond, B&N has gone public. It has named in detail six patents that it says Microsoft is using to get Android device makers to pay up. Plus B&N is also trying to force open Microsoft's other plans for stomping out Android, including the agreement Redmond made with Nokia, and Nokia's patent-troll MOSAID."

Submission + - Survey shows IT certs are not a rip off (networkworld.com)

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on Monday November 14, 2011 @01:27PM

Julie188 writes: "Debate rages among IT professionals over the value of certifications, but a survey of 700 network professionals by Network World indicates that certs do improve IT careers. There's some caveats ... some certs are more valuable than others, for instance. The timing of when to get a cert is also important. Still, all told, the impact of certs on IT careers is impressive. Some 60% said a certification led to a new job; 50% said they earned more pay, with 40% saying their pay increased by more than 10% directly because of a certification; and 29% said a cert led to a promotion. Interestingly, respondents also named Cisco certifications as both the most, and the least, valuable."

Submission + - Test: Windows 8 on an old Asus Eee netbook (networkworld.com)

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on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:17PM

Julie188 writes: "Among the plethora of information regarding Windows 8 that Microsoft has so far disseminated is talk about a handful of optimizations meant to streamline, speed-up, or otherwise reduce Windows 8's footprint in comparison to Windows 7. So, blogger Marco Chiappetta set out to put these claims to a real world test on his old Asus Eee PC 900 netbook. The netbook didn't even meet Microsoft's minimum requirements for its W8 developer preview version. Yet Chiappetta was able to get W8 installed and running well. He logged some surprisingly good results verifying at least some of Microsoft's claims."

Submission + - Bing HTML5 app only for iPhone, Android (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:20PM

Julie188 writes: "Microsoft has rolled out a new mobile app for Bing built with HTML5 and available first only to iPhone and Android users. Guess even Microsoft isn't all that interested in developing for Windows Phone. It's also another indicator that Microsoft is turning away from its home-baked development platforms, .Net and Silverlight, and toward the industry-standard HTML5."

Submission + - Amazon, watch out, OpenStack is coming (networkworld.com)

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on Friday October 28, 2011 @04:22PM

Julie188 writes: "The open source cloud platform, OpenStack, promises to end cloud-vendor lock-in by making it easier to move workloads between cloud providers. Only problem was, there were no OpenStack cloud providers. Until now. Internap has launched the first OpenStack public cloud, and it chose the open source Xen as the base hypervisor. Rackspace, the official corporate champion of OpenStack, is in beta with its cloud as is HP. A stew of other OpenStack projects are ready to bubble over soon, too."

Submission + - Can Hyper-V finally best VMware? (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:00PM

Julie188 writes: "Hyper-V will get an overhaul as part of the release of Microsoft's Windows Server 8. At that time, it will offer features Microsoft claims that no one else in the market is doing — such as Share Nothing Live Migration, where virtual machines can be transfered from one server to another over just a network connection, no NAS or SAN required. Not surprisingly, VMware disagrees, saying there is nothing in the new version of Hyper-V that isn't available from VMware today. But it'll cost you, as these new Hyper-V features are not part of vSphere, but are only available as expensive add-ons from VMware."

Submission + - Happy Tenth Birthday, XP. Now Please Die (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @03:17PM

Julie188 writes: "Windows XP – the XP stood for "Experience" — was released October 25, 2001. With Windows XP, Microsoft hoped to have one codebase that would span everything from consumers to corporate desktops. Microsoft was fairly ambitious with XP. There was an embedded version that went everywhere, from phones to information kiosks. Banks in particular embraced it as a way to migrate off IBM's dead-end-but-once-great OS/2. Consumers have been quicker to ditch XP for Windows 7 while businesses hem and haw and slowly test a decade's-worth of custom apps on Windows 7. Some estimates show that XP still has a hold on 48% of the Windows market."

Submission + - Cloud driving Microsoft to open source? (networkworld.com)

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on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:04PM

Julie188 writes: "Sam Ramji thinks the days where Microsoft's, (and Apple's, and Oracle's) love-hate relationship with open source are numbered, thanks to to the cloud. Whereas some open source advocates say the cloud may kill open source, because users won't have access to the source, Ramji says the cloud will be its salvation. Ramji, Microsoft's original internal open source dude, thinks companies building clouds won't be able to keep up if they don't participate in open source communities because that's where the developers building new cloud infrastructure are doing most of their work. The main thing standing in the way by both cloud builders and users of free software are legal fears, he contends. These include fears of the GPL's copyleft provision and fears of being sued by downstream users. Is he right ... or full of FUD?"

Submission + - Gluster drags Red Hat into OpenStack (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:51PM

Julie188 writes: "One of the more interesting aspects of Red Hat's acquisition of virtual storage vendor Gluster on Tuesday is how it drags Red Hat into bed with its cloud competitor OpenStack. Red Hat made waves over the summer in the open source community when one of its executives threw punches at OpenStack's community saying the community amounted to not much more than a bunch of press releases. In July, Gluster contributed its Connector for OpenStack. It enables features such as live migration of VMs, instant boot of VMs, and movement of VMs between clouds on a GlusterFS environment. While Fedora has already said that its upcoming Fedora 16 would support OpenStack, Fedora is a community distro and "maverick" from Red Hat, if you'll forgive me for quoting Sara Palin. However, Red Hat today promised that it would continue to support and maintain Gluster's contribution to OpenStack. It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk."

Submission + - How Microsoft can lock Linux off W8 PCs (networkworld.com) 3

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on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:20PM

Julie188 writes: "Windows 8 PCs will use the next-generation booting specification known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). And actually Windows 8 logo devices will be required to use the secure boot portion of the new spec. Secure UEFI is intended to thwart rootkit infections by using PKI authentication before allowing executables or drivers to be loaded onto the device. Problem is, unless the device manufacturer gives a key to the device owner, it can also be used to keep the PC's owner from wiping out the current OS and installing another option, such as Linux."

Submission + - Windows Server 8 a radical departure (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @12:46PM

Julie188 writes: "While the world is distracted with the Window 8 client, Microsoft is simultaneously working on Windows Server 8. At BUILD, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation server OS under heavy secrecy to a room full of analysts and product testers. WS8 is radically different thanits predecessors. There's an argument to make that it's notactually Windows. The code they saw was pre-beta and an obvious attempt to put an arrow in the heart of former-'softie-turned-VMware-CEO Paul Maritz. Windows 8 Server editions are to be run in Server Core format — the GUI will be optional. PowerShell has gotten an overhaul and its command list will exceed 2,300native commandlets in Windows Server 8. Hyper-V has also been revamped and will become massively scalable in the number of VMs supported and in the size of each VM."

Submission + - Mapping the Price of Pot Across the Internet (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:55PM

Julie188 writes: "You might not have known that you are paying $526 to get buzzed when that same high, same pot, costs $97 in different areas; but this and other important information can now be found, thanks to a site called FloatingSheep and the mashups it posts. FloatingSheep analyzes geocoded data provided by web users to discover stuff that would normally go unseen, like the maps of the price of pot, of business and sex, of religion, bowling alleys, guns, and strip clubs — yes, all in one map. One of the project's founders, Dr. Matthew Zook, says that FloatingSheep is interested in fighting censorship in all its forms, not just the state-sponsored kind but also "soft censorship or citizen censorship. I'm thinking of things such as the editing wars that can break out in Wikipedia (or rating websites like Trip Advisor) in which less prevalent opinions/viewpoints have a tougher time being heard.""

Submission + - Jim Zemlin: Only idiots don't give back to FOSS (networkworld.com) 1

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on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @11:11AM

Julie188 writes: "Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. So the time for cajoling those users — even commercial projects like Canonical — into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says."

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