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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

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Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating.NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows.

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Microsoft releases Windows as a subscription, announces pricing, launching its ‘Cloud PC’ era

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Microsoft released Windows 365 for business users this morning, making its flagship operating system widely available as a subscription for the first time. ” Using the service, business customers will be able to stream Windows 10, and later Windows 11, to any device, including Mac, iPad, Linux, and Android. .”

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With Windows 365, Microsoft realizes its vision for Cloud PCs, streaming its OS to any device

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Inspire virtual partner conference. Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service , promising to stream the operating system to any device in an attempt to create what the tech giant describes as a new category of computing called the Cloud PC.

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Microsoft unveils its own Cloud PC: ‘Windows 365 Link’ device will sell for $349 to businesses

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A Microsoft Windows 365 Link device with a dual-monitor setup. Microsoft will offer its own device that automatically connects to Windows 365, the subscription service that lets business users stream its PC operating system to devices over a network connection. Microsoft introduced Windows 365 in 2021. ”

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Microsoft and OpenAI built a supercomputer with 285,000 CPU cores and 10,000 GPUs

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At its virtual Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft revealed several interesting sneak peeks into its latest efforts to unify Windows 10 app development, offer more useful tools for power users, and integrate more Linux goodies via the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Interview: Steve Ballmer is still Microsoft’s largest individual investor — and its most loyal fan

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Clippers-themed conference room at the Ballmer Group s Seattle-area headquarters. The IBM partnership didnt end well, I pointed out, alluding to the bitter split over OS/2, which saw Microsoft pivot to Windows in the late 1980s while IBM struggled to gain traction in the PC market. Satya Nadella is taking Microsoft into adulthood.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

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Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference in which he handicapped the size of the server platforms for the world’s leading cloud computing providers. Posted July 15th, 2013.