To the barricades, taxpayers, they’re GIVING IT AWAY (as open source)!
The United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has built a Unicorn Herder, plays with puppets and is messing about with pretend (virtual) computers.…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Will the fickle finger of fondleslab fate help Windows 10?
Even if it does, Microsoft’s price genie is hard to rebottle
Just two and half years ago Microsoft dropped Windows 8 on the world, playing Redmond’s card in the touch-tablet game against Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android.…
Facebook: Yo ‘people’! Zap fake news on our giant ad farm, would’ja?
But ridiculing Zuck is FINE
Facebook has asked its users (sorry, people) to flag up posts on the free-content ad network that they think are hoaxes masquerading as news items.…
Windows 10: TODAY is Microsoft’s date with destiny
Putting success on hold for another two years?
Remember 21 January, 2015: it will go down in history either as the date that made Microsoft or the reason why victory in mobile was put on hold for another two years.…
Evernote says goodbye to Hello, shuts lid on Peek
Oddball experiments canned
Evernote, which makes a useful free form database with over 100 million users, has taken an axe to some little used services and platforms, while extending its new chat service to iDevices.…
Microsoft to give away Windows 10 free for first year
Plus, Cortana gets ‘Yoda mode’
Microsoft is planning a big push for Windows 10 and will be giving away the new operating system to Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8 users in the first year of release.…
Pull up the Windows 10 duvet, and pretend Win8 and Vista NEVER happened
SO cosy and safe, mummy
Each time there’s a new version of Windows, Microsoft bills it as “the best Windows yet,” understandably enough.…
Canonical goes all Internet of Stuff with Ubuntu for DRONES
Robots and such will dance to our tune, hopes Shuttleworth
Getting Ubuntu onto everything from your home router to commercial drones is the next target of Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth.…
Apache retains perch atop global web server market
Microsoft goes OVER A CLIFF
Microsoft Internet Information Server’s (IIS’) tilt for the title of the planet’s most-prevalent web server has ended, with Apache well and truly back of top of Netcraft’s survey.…
Buggy? Angry? LET IT ALL OUT says Linus Torvalds
‘I’m not a nice person and I don’t care about you’: LinuxLord
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has articulated views on security at Linux.conf.au, and seems to be closer to Google’s way of thinking than Microsoft’s.…