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Microsoft is Down and Pretending to be "Open"
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of February 2019 12:04:10 PM Filed under

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Down productivity tools: Microsoft Teams takes a Monday tumble
Microsoft's collaborative Slack-alike, Teams, is having a difficult start to the week, with users unable to log in to share their hopes, dreams and Word documents with their co-workers.
Problems started at around 13:00 UTC, as users found themselves presented with connection errors as they attempted to hook up to the service. Naturally, they took to Twitter to share their experience.
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Microsoft is going all-in on 'Inner Source' [Ed: Microsoft's de facto PR person at CBS on how Microsoft will keep giving malicious software with NSA back doors while calling it "open". Dr. Glyn Moody, to his credit, warned about it over a decade ago in Linux Journal when he said Microsoft would bamboozle nontechnical people/officials by claiming it itself is its competition and is "open source" (even when it's proprietary, with back doors).]
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After Open Source, Microsoft Wants “Inner Source” For A Better Future [Ed: Having bribed OSI and others, Microsoft is now trying to redefine and totally control FOSS (all products proprietary but with openwashing for marketing purposes). Remember "Shared Source"? Microsoft keeps rebranding. Microsoft: we’re sort of kind of like “open”. We bought some things. BP: we’re sort of green. We changed our logo and mentioned words like “climate”.]
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GNU Leveraged for Spying
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of February 2019 02:39:11 AM Filed under

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Future version of Windows 10 lets you browse your Linux subsystem files [Ed: False. These are not “Linux”. It’s all Windows. Techrights corrected Microsoft propaganda sites like this one. Microsoft goes around calling Windows "Linux"; when you run applications compiled for GNU/Linux on Vista 10; that's like saying to GNU/Linux users who have Wine installed that they run Windows. They don't. The 'new' Microsoft: you want to use GNU/Linux ? Then 'upgrade' to Vista 10. Yes, we at Microsoft "Love Linux" when "Linux" is actually just Windows intentionally mislabeled.]
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Linspire Cloud Edition 8.0 Office 365 Officially Released, Here's What's New [Ed: Linspire works for Microsoft]
The Linspire team informs Softpedia about the availability of the Cloud Edition (CE) Office 365 of the latest Linspire 8.0 operating system release.
Targeted at corporate and education users, the Linspire Cloud Edition 8.0 Office 365 operating system brings together the security and stability of the GNU/Linux technologies and the standard Microsoft Office online platform called Office 365 into a single, affordable package that can be easily installed on a personal computer or deployed across a network in offices and classrooms.
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Microsoft Now Calls Windows "Linux" (Misleading People)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of February 2019 04:07:40 AM Filed under


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Windows 10 Will Let You Access Linux Files Using File Explorer [Ed: Misleading from Bogdan Popa, Microsoft News Editor writing in the "Linux" section of Softpedia. This isn't "Linux", it's Windows.]
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Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Access WSL Linux Files From Explorer, Other Improvements [Ed: Those are not "Linux files" but Windows]
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Updated WSL in Windows 10 version 1903 lets you access Linux files from Windows
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Windows 10 April 2019 Update Brings Linux File Access With Enhanced WSL [Ed: People are now supposed to think Windows is Linux and vice versa. This deliberate confusion serves Microsoft. It serves EEE.]
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Windows 10's File Explorer Will Soon Let You Access Your Linux Subsystem Files [Ed: Longtime (decades-long) Microsoft boosters are boosting this perception too]
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Microsoft and IBM Spin/PR
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 16th of February 2019 06:07:05 AM Filed under

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Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files [Ed: No, this is more WSL entrapment. They try to prevent people from using proper GNU/Linux with the actual kernel, either standalone or dual-boot. This is also about surveillance on one's files, keys, keystrokes, everything.]
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Zowe Makes Mainframe Evergreen [Ed: Swapnil Bhartiya greenwashing and openwashing 2-in-1]
Zowe also offers a vendor-agnostic experience allowing users to mix and match tooling and technologies. It provides interoperability, through the latest web technologies, products, and solutions from multiple vendors, and it allows developers to use the familiar, industry-standard, open source tools to access mainframe resources and services.
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The ibmvnic driver with SR-IOV is now supported by SLES 12 and SLES 15 on IBM POWER9 processor-based systems
The ibmvnic driver enables PowerVM Single Root I/O Virtualizations (SR-IOV) for improved network capabilities including reduced systems processor utilization, decreased network latency, and enforcement of network Quality of Service.
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Microsoft's Deterioration
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of February 2019 08:40:26 AM Filed under
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Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off
Oddly enough, for the second time this week, Microsoft has been spotted telling the world that its software is, er, not very good.
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I finally upgraded Windows 10 to Build 1809 - Results
Build 1803 was the first Windows update ever where I had big glitches and errors. Then, Build 1809 came, went, came back, and I never actually got it. A sign of clear deterioration in quality. Microsoft's software used to be the stuff of legends. Rock solid. I guess another old truth got eroded, another scar to my soul added.
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Microsoft Entering Linux to Promote Its Proprietary Traps
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 8th of February 2019 09:24:26 AM Filed under

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OpenChain Project Adds Microsoft as Platinum Member [Ed: More Microsoft money for Zemlin's PAC; has the annual salary of Jim Zemlin reached $1 million yet? Do they recognise that Linux has rivals or do they just try to cash in as much as possible?]
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Visual Studio Code 1.31 Released! No Restart on Extension Install [Ed: Microsoft's free bait that helps sell an IDE that adds surveillance to compiled code]
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Visual Studio Code 1.31 Adds Screencast Mode, Better Navigation + More [Ed: Why even promote Microsoft to developers in Linux-centric sites?]
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Going Retro With Electron and FreeDOS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of February 2019 07:05:15 AM Filed under
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Running Windows 95 on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 Just Got a Lot Better
Developer Felix Rieseberg released a new version of his Windows95 Electron app that lets users relive the old Microsoft Windows 95 experience on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 computers.
Windows95 v2.0 saw the light of day earlier this week and it appears to be the biggest update to the application since its initial launch in August 2018. The new release introduces support for sound, better support for HiDPI/4K displays, as well as the ability to "reset" a machine, according to the developer. -
FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate Available For Retaining MS-DOS Compatibility In 2019
The first release candidate of FreeDOS 1.3 is now available, which is the open-source effort continuing to maintain compatibility with classic MS-DOS.
FreeDOS developers considered moving towards being 32-bit with this release, but instead they have opted to remain 16-bit in order to retain full compatibility with classic DOS. FreeDOS is still committed towards preserving classic support, but at least they have promoted zip/unzip support to being part of their "base" package group.
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Real Cost of Windows (TCO)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 6th of February 2019 07:32:03 PM Filed under
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How much will staying patched on Windows 7 cost you? Here's the price list [Ed: Real TCO (what you think is cheap will empty your pocket, even without virus infection)]
Microsoft said last Fall that it would offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates on a per-device basis for big customers willing to pay for them after the company ends Windows 7 support on January 14, 2020. Microsoft officials wouldn't talk about how much those updates would cost, beyond saying they'd get more expensive over time.
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Windows Server 2019 Users Expect the Fix for Mysterious Shutdown Issues in the Next Update
Most of the users have experienced the same problem and it is continuously being reported since December 2018. Even selecting “Shut down the guest operating system” option in hyper-v settings didn’t seem to resolve the issue at user’s end. Apparently, the problem has arisen just because the guest VMs failed to shutdown gracefully.
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Microsoft Deleting Databases, Deprecating MSI and LibreOffice Developers Speak Out
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 4th of February 2019 07:33:40 PM Filed under

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Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs
The Azure outage of January 29 claimed some unexpected victims in the form of surprise database deletions for unlucky customers.
The issue afflicted a number of Azure SQL databases that utilize custom KeyVault keys for Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), according to a message sent to users seen by The Register. Some internal code accidentally dropped these databases during Azure's portal wobble yesterday, forcing Microsoft to restore customer data from a five-minute-ago snapshot.
That means transactions, product orders, and other updates to the data stores during that five-minute window were lost. That may warm you up with red-hot anger if you're in the middle of a particularly nasty cold snap.
The note explained that the cockup happened automatically during what Redmond delicately called an network infrastructure event: a CenturyLink DNS snafu that locked essentially half of Microsoft 365 customers out of their cloud accounts, a breakdown that began at 1045 UTC.
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Microsoft deprecates MSI
Well – obviously. At least, their current actions tell that: they deprecated CRT MSMs (which is reiterated in VS 2019 RC2 release notes), a technology designed to allow MSI-based installers to install the CRT libraries in a centrally-managed manner; and the only recommended way now is using vcredist executable, which is not MSI-compatible.
What else, if not deprecation, might it mean, when an installer technology made unable to deploy applications created using vendor’s own flagship development tool?
Well – I thought: maybe that was an oversight? Why not inform them about the problem that MSI-only installers would be left without any viable option?
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Improving SmartArt import in Impress FOSDEM talk
The next step in the recent SmartArt story is my Improving SmartArt import in Impress talk at FOSDEM 2019, in the Open Document Editors devroom. The room was a bit far away from the popular places, but the livestream worked out nicely.
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Microsoft Entryism/EEE: Latest Examples
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of January 2019 11:17:34 PM Filed under
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There's more to WSL than Ubuntu [Ed: Longtime Microsoft propagandists like Simon Bisson promote Microsoft's agenda of 'owning' GNU/Linux desktops and controlling them entirely]
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Github Hires ex-Google Exec to Lead its Product Team [Ed: Shanku Niyogi decided to move from one surveillance company, Google, to a company that hands over private code to the NSA]
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Typescript, PostgreSQL and Visual Studio Code all get slathered with a little Microsoft lovin' [Ed: Microsoft is hijacking FOSS projects and making everything about Windows and its surveillance network, Azure, just as per the strategy noted by Ballmer]
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