Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Linux head developer Linus Torvalds and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney will also have input. But the two aren’t going alone. However, the real threat to Intel and AMD lies on the client side.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 7, 2020

Microsoft is offering researchers $100,000 if they can crack the company's custom-built Linux OS for Internet of Things devices.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 26, 2020

Microsoft locks down the Internet of Things with its own Linux.

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2019

ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems. It was first implemented on Linux in 2005. In 2007, the technique was deployed on Microsoft Windows and MacOS. While ASLR provides the same function on each of these operating systems, it is implemented differently on each one.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. HiveIO Hive Fabric HiveIO is a Linux Kernel-based VM (KVM) that features an intelligent message bus, pool orchestration, user profile management, and shared storage. Heres a brief synopsis of each one: 1.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 24, 2020

Microsoft's security tools extend beyond the company's own platforms. While the ambition for Defender for Linux is broad, the first preview is aimed just at servers and does less than on Windows.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example. In fact, Gartner takes points away from Microsoft because, according to the report, Microsofts Azure Monitor doesnt yet offer support for automated ingestion of OTel data directly via a collector interface; it requires an additional exporter tool.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The newly formed Open Source Security Foundation includes titans in technology such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and more.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Read more about SONiC Aviz gives its enterprise SONiC offering an AI boost Cisco joins $10M funding round for Aviz Networks SONiC test lab gains industry support Cisco and Aviz coordinate support for enterprise SONiC networks eBay scores cost savings and a bandwidth boost with white-box switches running SONiC Microsoft shifts SONiC development to (..)

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Network World

AUGUST 15, 2018

Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it?

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Network World

AUGUST 15, 2018

Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it?

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Tech Republic Data Center

JULY 16, 2021

Microsoft Linux has arrived, but it's not what you imagined. Jack Wallen shares his take on this new arrival called CBL-Mariner and even shows you how to build it.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Being developed under the Linux Foundation, SONiC was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. Nokias SR Linux NOS supports a wide range of network protocols and features as well as third-party applications.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2021

IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technologies to let enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of private or public infrastructure, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud.

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Network World

OCTOBER 14, 2020

IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technologies to let enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of private or public infrastructure, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The AI sector needs a “Linux moment,” according to Manos Koukoumidis , a former senior engineering manager at Google Cloud who is CEO and co-founder of Oumi. Koukoumidis helped build generative AI models at Google, and also spent time at Meta and Microsoft. Venrock and Obvious Ventures led the seed round.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Microsoft is following the customers and the ecosystem, but pragmatic investment in Linux doesn't diminish the company's commitment to Windows.

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Network World

AUGUST 24, 2017

Many Internet of Things (IoT) product developers have ignored the traumatic early history of Microsoft Windows, Android and web platforms, and expoits of IoT devices — because software updates have not been designed in — are regularly reported. In the go-to-market IoT race, though, that often doesn’t happen.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel.

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Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Microsoft has open sourced the entire.NET framework, which is central to building Windows apps. Shared Uncategorized'

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Network World

JUNE 28, 2017

In the wake of yet another ransomware attack—this time named NotPetya —I have a special message specifically for those of you working in organizations that continue to run Microsoft Windows as the operating system on either your servers or your desktops: You are doing a terrible job and should probably be fired. . That’s harsh.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Infrastructure agents from Cisco and Microsoft simultaneously validate security, identity and access, costs, and SLO compliance. IBM and Microsoft looking at agent overload Cisco isnt alone in exploring the impact of the proliferation of agents. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to Windows 10 with WSL version 2 later this month, and it’s now planning to support Linux GUI apps that will run alongside regular Windows apps.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. In April 2022, Microsoft turned the project over to the Linux Foundation and its 450,000 developers. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC? We should see SONiC continue to extend into new use cases.”

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps. The first preview of support for GUI applications is available today for Windows Insiders, allowing developers to run GUI editors, tools, and applications to build and test Linux apps. Image: Microsoft. Linux GUI apps running on Windows.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen, left, and Bill Gates with an array of personal computers in the early 1980s. Microsoft’s decision to make software, rather than produce a PC of its own, defined its business in its early years. Learn more and register here for our Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle. trillion today.

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Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Container management no longer limited to Linux machines or virtual instances on Windows Read More. Cloud Computing Microsoft'

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Venture Beat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At Ignite 2020 today, Microsoft announced that Edge for Linux will be available in the Dev preview channel starting in October. Read More.

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Anoop

MARCH 22, 2018

Microsoft SCCM team released the new production version of SCCM 1802. In this post, I wanted to share surprise information (but expected) about Linux and Unix support of SCCM CB. Do you have more questions about Linux UNIX […].

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Network World

AUGUST 13, 2024

Only 21 of the enterprises I contacted thought Microsoft was even a contributor, and none thought Microsoft was primarily to blame. All of the 21 enterprises who said they believed Microsoft had contributed to the problem thought Microsoft’s Windows should not have responded to the CrowdStrike error in the way it did.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others. Standalone hypervisor There are a number of standalone hypervisors on the market, including Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, and open-source KVM.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

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Venture Beat

MAY 19, 2020

At Build 2020, Microsoft released Windows Terminal 1.0 and announced WSL 2 is getting support for GPUs, Linux GUI apps, and a simplified install experience. Read More.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2016

The million Android apps—which include popular apps such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Skype and games such as Clash of Clans and Angry Birds—will remedy the Chromebook’s relative app sparsity. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2024

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for August 2024 includes a fix for a security vulnerability in the Grub2 boot loader, which is used by many Linux operating systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-2601, this flaw, discovered in 2022, could lead to an out-of-bounds write with a potential bypass of Secure Boot protection. Read Entire Article

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The latest release candidate of Linux 6.12 was announced over the weekend, promoting some comments about grammar from Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Linux 6.12 Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. is expected to be released sometime in the second half of November.

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