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Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation

In an announcement today the Linux Foundation announced that Microsoft had become a Platinum member of the organisation and as part of this John Gossman who is Architect on the Microsoft Azure team will join the board of the Linux Foundation. Continue reading

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America Finally relinquishes control of Internet to ICANN

After 47 years since the first message was sent over ARPA net the forerunner to the modern day internet America has finally given up control of the top level DNS and ip allocation Continue reading

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Russia Kicks Out Microsoft Software For Local MyOffice

In an Article by Ilya Khrennikov posted in Bloomberg Technology on 27th September 2016 Moscow City will drop Microsoft products in favour go home grown software Continue reading

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Microsoft Launches its own version of FreeBSD Distribution

Microsoft today announced it has launched a fully supported version the FreeBSD Unix 10.3 operating system and made it available in Azure.


Jason Anderson Principal PM Manager, Open Source Technology Centre said,


“One of our primary reasons for making these investments in FreeBSD on Hyper-V was to enable FreeBSD VMs to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure. You may be wondering, Why is it so important for FreeBSD to run in Azure? Many top-tier virtual appliance vendors base their products on the FreeBSD operating system.
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Russian Government makes plans to replace windows with Linux as its preferred Operating System

In a dispute more about taxes or the lack of payment of them by the Big IT companies German Klimenko’s Russia new Internet Czar has announced he is banning Microsoft Windows platform from government computers and will more than likely replace them with the Linux platform. It is already known Russia is working on bringing its own Version of Linux and a replacement for Android Continue reading

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This Week is hour of code week

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 30 languages. No experience needed. <strong>Ages 4 to 104.</strong> Continue reading

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