Just wants to get through next 6 months
LinuxCon 2015 Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds isn’t thinking about where his creation will be ten years from now – in fact, he claims he doesn’t even think ahead one year.…
Software update borked radar, delayed hundreds of flights, says US FAA
Contractor blamed for weekend chaos
The Federal Aviation Administration has blamed a software upgrade to its next-generation radar system for the hundreds of delayed and cancelled flights from Washington DC airports on Saturday.…
Microsoft kicks off ‘Windows as a service’ with new Insider build
Compressed memory, and look, now you can change the colors!
Less than a month after releasing the General Availability version of Windows 10, Microsoft is back with a brand-new experimental build of the OS for its Windows Insider guinea pigs.…
Microsoft will explain only ‘significant’ Windows 10 updates
Microsoft is offering the choice between terrible or woeful security
+Comment Microsoft has explained its policy about how much information it will offer on the content of Cumulative Updates to Windows 10.…
Forget Big Data hype, says Gartner as it cans its hype cycle
Even the nerdy kids understand it now, so it’s time to move on to cooler stuff like ‘smart dust’
Analyst outfit Gartner has decided that Big Data hype is so last year and canned its hype cycle for Big Data.…
Salesforce back in the red, reviews future black ink orders
But hey, at least overall profit ratio is up to 0.1 per cent of sales
After a brief interlude in the black, Salesforce is back in more familiar loss-making territory, according to the financials for its second financial quarter this year.…
Amazon to trash Flash, as browsers walk away
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, Adobe
Amazon – the retail juggernaut, not the cloud juggernaut – has flicked Flash ads citing the increasing number of ways they’re blocked at the browser as its reason.…
Does Linux need a new file system? Ex-Google engineer thinks so
Bcache author says it’s nearly ready for prime time
Former Googler Kent Overstreet has announced that a long-term project to craft a new Linux file system is at a point where he’d like other developers to pitch in.…
ShoreTel shooting for cloudy consistency with new suite
Sky, schmy: it’s all about one GUI everywhere this time
Back in 2012, unified communications outfit ShoreTel acquired a rival named M5 in order to get itself into the cloud. M5 had unified communications as a service (UcaaS) at the time and ShoreTel didn’t.…
Windows 10 market share growth slows to just ten per cent
There’s good news and bad news for Microsoft because Windows 8.1 is slipping fast
Windows 10 now has 5.95 per cent of the desktop operating systems market, according to the folks at StatCounter.…