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Microsoft revenue climbs 13% to $38B as stay-at-home orders boost cloud and games businesses

GeekWire

However, traditional Office software licensing continued to suffer, and the company said LinkedIn and search advertising were impacted negatively due to the slowdown in jobs and the economy. “Server products revenue was relatively unchanged, with growth in hybrid and premium solutions, offset by a slowdown in transactional licensing.”

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

However, certain environments are inherently bound to hardware and/or tested for performance, and these may need to remain "in-house" on specific hardware (see below) Inherent application functionality N Apps that are inherently "internal" Such as internal back-up software, "edge" applications like printer servers, etc. Ken Oestreich.

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Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history

GeekWire

She worked on projects like the Surface Table, Xbox, and MSN products, and started Microsofts Competitive Intelligence program, establishing legal and ethical guidelines for data collection. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A library scientist with an MBA, Engelkes was hired as a researcher at Microsoft in 1998. Thibodeau said.

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Someone stop DeepSeek: Meet Janus-Pro-7B, another free AI model

Dataconomy

Image: DeepSeek In purely factual terms, Janus-Pro-7B is licensed under a permissive MIT framework , with added usage guidelines from DeepSeek. Depending on your hardware, you can choose between CPU-only mode or harness GPU acceleration for faster performance.

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. The Internet Era: 00s • Internet changes everything • Open source movement gains traction (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) • Tech selling ads, bits, hardware & services • Google Dominates. @spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? ?

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license. Networking. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux.

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Why DRM-Protected eBooks Are the Preferred Choice for Educational Publishing Today?

Kitaboo

Just like a lock on the door that protects your home, DRM ensures that only consumers who pay for a license will receive access to the content. This makes DRM a good option for educational publishers/authors to control how their data, hardware, or software is used. Furthermore, the kind of access each user gets can also be customized.

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