Over the more than a decade that I've been hosting Coder Radio, there's been an evolving story about Microsoft's relationship with Linux. It's been a trend of at first resistance (think the Balmer era) and now full on embrace. Can it be? Well, if you followed Build...
It looks like the Octocat is out of the bag. Microsoft is acquiring Github for what one can only imagine is a few Brinks trucks of cash. There’s been quite a lot of response in the Linux and free software community already on this. One of Github’s primary rivals...
I've been spending some time with a Google Home at my office. It's. been a pretty interesting experience overall and makes me more confident in my previous assertion that of the big three in tech (Apple, Google, and Microsoft), Google is going to dominate the digital...
Apps are the newest thing! Apps are dead, long live the cloud! The cloud is old hat, it’s all about bots and machine learning now! If you follow the tech press like I do, you might be led to think that we have come through some sort of supersonic period of...
Microsoft briefly released an AI chat bot on Twitter that was intended to be a test of sorts for their machine learning technologies. This bot was called Tay and was meant to have the personality and likeness of a teenage girl and much like a real teenage girl, she...
Last week I mentioned that Microsoft is in danger of becoming IBM. This got a good deal of response from the Microsoft fans on Twitter and it was of course not meant to be provocative; in fact, I was just stating the fact that the recent releases of Windows RT and...
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