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Windows 10 Mobile Support Ends in December

January 22, 2019 by Stephen Foskett

Microsoft announced that support for Windows 10 Mobile ends in December. It’s a quiet end for an OS that always seemed resigned to playing for third.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @ArsTechnica, @Microsoft, mobile

Why Would Microsoft Buy Mellanox?

December 19, 2018 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

News came out today in The Marker that Microsoft is looking into an acquisition of Mellanox. This would likely mark a major shift to in-house hardware development for Azure, and could form the basis of a composable cloud offering in Microsoft’s cloud. But it would also take a major (if un-heralded) player out of the market for everyone else.

Filed Under: Exclusives, Featured Tagged With: @AristaNetworks, @MellanoxTech, @Microsoft, @XilinxInc, Composable Infrastructure, Ethernet, Infiniband, RoCE

Mozilla’s CEO Mourns the Death of EdgeHTML

December 12, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard wrote an interesting blog post in response to Microsoft adopting Chromium as the engine for their Edge browser. He makes the point that reducing the number of stakeholders among browser makes gives Google an even bigger influence with web standards bodies.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, chrome, Firefox

Microsoft Teams is Beating Slack

December 11, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Slack can often be seen as the de facto collaborative chat app. But a recent survey by Spiceworks shows that Microsoft Teams is a formidable competitor.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, slack

Microsoft Edges Toward Chromium

December 6, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Microsoft Edge is dead, long live Microsoft Edge! Microsoft has announced their browser will be rebuilt to run on the open source Chromium engine. This will lead to seeing the browser in more places, and could have major implications for Microsoft’s future OS plans.

Filed Under: Exclusives, Featured Tagged With: @Microsoft, Chromium, Microsoft Edge

Intel Losing FPGA Ground to Xilinx on Azure

October 31, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

You’ve got to hand it to Bloomberg. You’d think they might back off of anonymously-sourced stories involving server chips. But no, the publication is diving right in with a new report on the FPGA’s used on Microsoft’s Azure servers. 

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, @XilinxInc, Altera, FGPA, Intel

Microsoft Finalizes GitHub Acquisition

October 26, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Microsoft finalized their acquisition of GitHub today, paying a cool $7.5 billion in cash for the ubiquitous Git repository. It seems like the European Commission approval was the last step to get this deal done. We’ll see how the platform fares under Microsoft stewardship.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, acquisition, GitHub

EU Approves Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition

October 22, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Over the weekend, the European Commission approved with Microsoft acquisition of GitHub. Notably, the regulator imposed no conditions on the deal.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, EU, GitHub

Microsoft to Acquire GitHub

June 4, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Microsoft will reportedly acquire GitHub. Many developers are not exactly thrilled by the news. Is this a case of knee-jerk Microsoft hate, or are concerns over the platform’s future well founded? Spoiler: It’s complicated.

Filed Under: Exclusives, Featured Tagged With: @Microsoft, acquisition, GitHub

An Exegesis on Microsoft Hate

June 1, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

Ned Bellavance broke down the three types of Microsoft hates. The company has changed substantially under their new leadership, so question is now whether the company deserves their reputation.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @Microsoft, @Ned1313

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