Microsoft’s ‘contextual operating service’ promises hakuna matata across devices
Microsoft has revealed more details of just how its personal assistant Cortana will work in Windows 10.…
Death knell for Windows with Bing, licences carved up
Microsoft ‘over-egged’ Chromebook response
Microsoft is effectively killing off the Windows with Bing notebook market less than a year after it was created.…
Why 1.6 million people will miss Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 date with fate
You want to do what? Again?!
Upgraded your Windows Server 2003 yet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.…
MongoDB’s feline brains trust sink their claws into NoSQL
Relational payoff in the wings?
By any measure, BerkeleyDB was a hit. It became the world’s most widely deployed embedded and open-source database, meaning that the company which did the most work to maintain it, Sleepycat, got swallowed by Larry Ellison’s database giant Oracle in 2006.…
Swift gets swifter: Apple updates its new programming language
Better Objective C interop, fixes and new features in Swift 1.2
Apple’s Swift programming language has been enhanced with new features and an upgraded compiler, in the just-released beta version of Xcode 6.3.…
Joyent: Never mind those other forkers, Node.js has a foundation now, too
But io.js says ‘nothing has changed’ – yet
The popular, open source Node.js JavaScript runtime engine is getting a new foundation to manage its development, in a move that could help mend the recent schism in the project’s community.…
Brit Linux distro CrunchBang calls it quits
Developer decides to move on to pastures new
The British developer behind the CrunchBang Linux distribution has called it quits.…
Linux 3.19 released for your computing pleasure
3.20 is next and 4.0 is nowhere in sight
Version 3.19 of the Linux kernel has been signed off by Linus Torvalds.…
Microsoft explains Windows as a SERVICE – but one version remains a distant dream
All users on the same version? Not in our lifetime, chum
Windows chief Terry Myerson proclaimed the advent of Windows-as-a-service at an event last month. But what does that mean? A more recent post from Enterprise and Security Directory Jim Alkove offers some clues.…
RIP SPDY, we hardly knew ye: Google to retire next-gen web protocol
HTTP/2 to take its place
Google has decided to mothball its home-grown SPDY internet application-layer protocol in future versions of its Chrome browser, in favor of the Internet Engineering Taskforce’s HTTP/2 spec.…