Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source
It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop. Hadoop — an open source platform for crunching epic amounts of a data across an army of dirt-cheap...
View ArticleMan Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’
When Lucovsky walked into Steve Ballmer's office in 2004 and told the Microsoft CEO he was leaving the company for Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and chucked it across the room. Now, ex-Microsoft...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of the Future
Among Silicon Valley developers, The Next Big Thing is Node. Node is short for Node.js, a new-age programming platform based on an engine at the heart of Google's Chrome browser. It's suited to...
View ArticleSay Hello to Windows Azure, The World’s Most Misunderstood Cloud
In this, the age of cloud computing, Amazon's service is so popular, it now runs about one percent of the entire internet, according to research from independent outfit DeepField Networks. Another...
View ArticleThe Man Who Introduced Microsoft to Open Source Leaves For HP
Hewlett-Packard has hired the man who introduced Microsoft to the notion of open source. His job? To transform HP into a serious cloud player.
View ArticleClash of the Titans! Inside Microsoft’s Battle to Foil the NSA
When the NSA scandal broke in June, revealing that the U.S. spy agency was eavesdropping wholesale on the most popular services on the web, Microsoft turned to four or five of its top engineers for...
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