Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more
Microsoft declares ownership of all Open Source software
Using the “Finders Keepers clause” of the GitHub Terms of Service. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - October 26, 2022
Listen now (43 min) | macOS Ventura, Ubuntu 22.10, Microsoft looking to control how Linux boots, Windows ARM dev box, and… Linux dropping 486 support? ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
Listen now (40 min) | Microsoft kills “Office”, iPads get USB-C, and Firefox wants to know your feelings. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Windows predicts the end of the world…
OR DOES IT?! ⌘ Read more
Microsoft apologizes for Windows, returns to DOS
“We’re really sorry about that whole GUI thing.” ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: A complacência com que tratamos empresas monopolistas deixa-me sem palavras para qualificar estas práticas. Isto viola quase todas as regras de concorrência e boas práticas de mercado. href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23microsoft”>#microsoft**
A complacência com que tratamos empresas monopolistas deixa-me sem palavras para qualificar estas práticas. Isto viola quase todas as regras de concorrência e boas práticas de mercado. #microsoft
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Microsoft Announces “Start Menu as a Service”
The company is also reportedly considering a free, ad-supported option. ⌘ Read more
Traf-O-Data: The company before “Microsoft”
Before Windows… Before DOS… Before BASIC… there was… Traf-O-Data ⌘ Read more
Exclusive: Microsoft revealed to be creator of Snap Packaging for Ubuntu Linux
“See? I told y’all we love Linux,” snickered the Microsoft CEO. ⌘ Read more
Watch as the Microsoft / Open Source apologists push a narrative
The Register says, “stop being so harsh on Redmond.” ⌘ Read more
Microsoft: “Using an open-source solution may introduce risks”
Remember how Microsoft used to warn against using Open Source? Turns out… they still are. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source.
Embrace? Check. Extend? Check. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s growing control of Linux
Embrace… Extend… what was that next part? I forget. I think it rhymes with “Shmextinguish”. ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel
Linux would join Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook in usage of Rust as a disciplinary tool. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft supports Hong Kong start-ups in partnership with Science Park, Cyberport
More than 40 local start-ups have joined the programme, including AI-powered marine trash-collecting robot maker Clearbot and algorithmic trading marketplace AlgoBot. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
Before MS-DOS, Microsoft helped CP/M run on the Apple II. ⌘ Read more
Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
Watch now (51 min) | Yelled at by Gates. Spit on by Ballmer. NT 5, DEC Alphas, Office for Mac, Windows Media Player for Mac, and more. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Word… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
And it all dates back to… Microsoft Xenix. ⌘ Read more
An optimist, a pessimist, and Microsoft Excel.
(Those three are the start of all great jokes.) ⌘ Read more
Microsoft open sources 1995’s “3D Movie Maker”
Including the BRender 3D engine used in games like Carmageddon. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft attempts to block Elon Musk purchase of Linux
“Hey! We already bought Linux,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (also released for Mac and… Atari ST?)
That’s right. Microsoft made Write for Mac and Atari ST. Weird, right? ⌘ Read more
Microsoft announces “Total Darkness Mode” for Windows 11
“Windows has never looked better!” says Twitter user ⌘ Read more
Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal… and much more.
Tandy Color Computer 3, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Emacs, and… Microsoft Word? Yup. Wordle is there too. ⌘ Read more
Documenting Microsoft’s funky attempts at porting software to UNIX
Listen now (15 min) | I was there for part of it. Trying to preserve that weird part of computing history. ⌘ Read more
Internet Explorer… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
Microsoft built Internet Explorer for both Solaris and HP-UX. Outlook Express and Windows Media Player are here too! ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Buys Zork (and Kings Quest)… and I have thoughts about it.
Listen now (18 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #13 ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s bad history disrespecting classic video games (a firsthand account)
The Redmond giant just purchased some of the most historically significant video games… but will they respect them? ⌘ Read more
Microsoft now owns: Zork, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and After Dark
And Pitfall! Plus River Raid. Also Heretic and MechWarrior. Wait. Wait. WHAT?! ⌘ Read more
Microsoft acquires Daniel Radcliffe in historic $73 Billion deal
Suggests MS-Radcliffe integration with Call of Duty, World of Warcraft. ⌘ Read more
The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming… and it’s actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you’d think
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more
If Lunduke ran Microsoft…
What would Lunduke do if he were the CEO of Microsoft? Awesome things. That’s what. Here’s what Lunduke’s first week would look like. ⌘ Read more
Join Docker This Month at KubeCon and the Cloud Engineering Summit
Two cloud-related conferences are coming up this month, and Docker will have speakers at both. First up, Docker CTO Justin Cormack will present at KubeCon next week. The week after that Peter McKee, Docker’s head of Developer Relations, will speak at Pulumi Cloud Engineering Summit. At KubeCon, Justin and co-presenter Steve Lasker of Microsoft will […]
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Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/open-source-cloud-compose/
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model | VentureBeat ⌘ https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-gets-exclusive-license-for-openais-gpt-3-language-model/
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-10-announcing-the-github-integration-with-microsoft-teams/
DockerCon 2020: The Microsoft Sessions ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/dockercon-2020-the-microsoft-sessions/
Running a container in Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) with Docker Desktop Edge ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/running-a-container-in-aci-with-docker-desktop-edge/
Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/
White Mirror: How did Microsoft’s 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/how-did-microsofts-2009-predic.html
Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? – The Old New Thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063
Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-doublespace-history/
The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf