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Microsoft follows in the custom silicon footsteps of Google's TPU and Amazon's Graviton. Just like the other AI chips, but this one is painted Azure
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Say hello to avatars, 3D meetings, and a change to the Microsoft Mesh platform. If only there were some other way to get together in 3D space for a meeting
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Microsoft has pulled cloud support from Office 2016 and 2019. The day of the standalone software you actually "own" is over. The future, my friends, is blowing in The Cloud(tm)
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Until its not. Ever since computers have been able to talk to each other in a "reliable" fashion, there's been a constant back-and-forth between centralized and decentralized software. Lets off load from the mainframe to minis! Distributed data sucks! Lets bring all the data back to the mainframe! PC's are the wave of the future, move all software out to the PCs! I can't get my monthly report because the internet is down? Repatriate everything back to the server farm! Why can't I run this stuff on my phone? yada yada yada ...
This is just the next round in this never-ending cycle. Eventually the CEO of MegaCorp is going to want to access something that's not available because either the cloud is not available, or a rental payment went astray. Or the CFO is going to do some math and realize a purchase with upgrade fees works out better for the bottom line, and software ownership will be considered best practice. Or rivals using a purchase model will start to eat MS lunch. Or ...
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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With the latest Windows 11 update on Sept. 26 we released a host of developer features as the core component of the Windows OS with an intent to make every developer more productive on Windows. You're getting a CoPilot, and YOU'RE getting a CoPilot, and...
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Google's default search deal with Apple is worth so much to the search giant that Google pays 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple's browser That's a better deal than me getting to keep 36% of the change I find in the cushions at work
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Does that mean that IE (or whatever it is called nowadays) gets Google as a search engine?
I mean, I use bing solely to get to google.com? Who hasn't binged Google?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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New research from Cisco reveals that just 14 percent of organizations globally are fully prepared to deploy and leverage AI-powered technologies. The other 86% are still trying to get ready for any intelligence
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And 100% have implemented both AS and NS (Artificial Stupidity and Natural Stupidity).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Management will be going crazy over it; our company *NEEDS* it, TODAY!
This makes the stock market so much more interesting 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And as management goes, they have no "klucking" clue what it means but they also want to share in the chat in the meetings on something related to AI, stating things like - "I told my team, that is how we will be gaining information from now on..., just do it!" 
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Did you give a kluck at that point? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Nope 
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Unlock New Heights in Developer Productivity: Optimized C++ Support, Enhanced Enterprise Capabilities, and Full .NET 8 Integration I ran out of Visual Studio jokes 0.6 versions ago
(OK, probably about 8.6 versions for decent jokes)
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Does it support C# 2.0?
We releasing new versions, with random features, to have a new version that management can tout? Where is the man, shouting "developers, developers, developers"? Can you say more bluntly to devs that you don't care?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I would think it should, they're usually pretty good for backward compatibility. I'm sure that none of the templates would use it though.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they're usually pretty good for backward compatibility.
Let me launch my VS2019 again, and see what I can develop in it.
Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Nichts. Niets.
Yup. Backward is right, just the compatible part ain't present 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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A new AI model from Google DeepMind is the world’s most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system, according to the London-based lab. "Winds light to variable"
I'm sure someone can insert a weather forecaster joke here (so I shan't bother). Where I am, it's pretty accurate as they can see it coming for days.
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You did ask for it - Quote: Why do hurricanes make great pirates?
Because they only have one eye!
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I can be 100% accurate for London also; it will rain today. And tomorrow. And next month.
Because. London
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Step by step, the Rust programming language is moving deeper into the Linux kernel. As opposed to rust in Linux (see elsewhere in newsletter)
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That is the purpose of rust, it moves in deeper and deeper until there is,,, well only rust left. 
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I’ve been diving into the Linux kernel scheduler recently. Eight cores ought to be enough for everyone?
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I am planning on an upgrade, 8 cores should suffice for my notepad script right?
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Since most software is targeting a single core, yes, 8 would be overkill?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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