Microsoft is issuing a stark reminder to the developer community: support for Visual Studio 2015 is drawing to a close, marking the end of an era for one of the company’s most influential software development platforms. As the deadline looms on October 14—coinciding with the retirement of...
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GitHub Actions users and Windows developers alike should brace for some far-reaching changes beginning this September. With the global popularity of GitHub Actions—GitHub’s industry-leading CI/CD platform—increasingly becoming central to enterprise development and open-source collaboration, even...
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The world of enterprise app development is experiencing a paradigm shift with Microsoft's recent introduction of generative Power Apps—tools that blend AI-powered agents, open code, and robust governance into a unified, enterprise-grade platform. At the heart of this evolution lies a new...
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In a move emblematic of the evolving relationship between Microsoft and the open-source community, Fedora Linux has officially joined the array of distributions available through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows. This noteworthy milestone, widely reported and confirmed by trusted...
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Few stories in the computing world capture the complex evolution of Microsoft's relationship with open source like the saga of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). With the company's recent move to open-source “almost everything” in WSL, this announcement represents both a technical milestone...
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In Episode 2 of the Countdown Show, Link Removed and Link Removed talk Pre-Day Sessions and share more of their favorite places for refreshment (read: coffee, beer, steaks, and cocktails) in Chicago!
First up: Pre-Day Sessions, presented Sunday, May 3, 9:00am – 5:00pm.
There are 17 Pre-Day...
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Link RemovedOne of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites don’t particularly want to create an account management system, but they need to...