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#Microsoft attempt to corner the game market met by federal opposition https://nu.federati.net/url/289048 [www cnbc com]
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How have I not seen any of these? Someone should have posted these links already.
US #FTC sues to block #Microsoft's #Activision #Blizzard purchase. https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/08/ftc_microsoft_activision/ [www theregister com] #gaming #monopoly
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Oh, good grief, #Microsoft. https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/microsoft-confirms-server.html [thehackernews com]
Source: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/109213542275494102
#security #breach #Azure #cloud
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I'm starting to wonder whether operating a shared #code-hosting platform is only possible with sponsorship. #Gitorious collapsed because their paid hosting couldn't cover their costs (which includes the cost of free hosting). I don't believe #Github ever publicly released figures, but I do remember hearing a rumor that they were not profitable before #Microsoft purchased them. #Bitbucket still persists, but #Atlassian has made so many changes to their offerings that IMO, using their platform is putting everything that touches it at risk. #SourceForge went to all sorts of dangerous extremes to try to monetize the huge number of repositories they host (most of which appear to be residue of projects that have either died or moved their active repos elsewhere).
#Darcs_Hub ( #Darcs ), #The_Nest ( #Pijul ), and #ChiselApp ( #Fossil ) are all too small to experience the tremendous cost factors.
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https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jul/07/microsoft-bans-commerical-open-source-in-app-store/ [sfconservancy org] #Microsoft's new rules ban commercial FOSS in their app store.
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@bobjonkman As far as I am aware, #Minecraft is not FOSS. It was created by someone called Notch and developed by a company called #Mojang. It required a Mojang account, even on privately host servers.
Mojang was purchased by #Microsoft, and their accounts were replaced with Microsoft accounts.
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https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
#Microsoft's #Github announces coming end for their #Atom code editor.
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Really big patch Tuesday this month. https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-128-windows-flaws-new-zero-day-reported-nsa [www securityweek com]
#microsoft #updates #time_to_update
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https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/108024686457445956
#Microsoft among major corporations less active in fighting bribery than they should be.
https://nu.federati.net/url/285535 [www theverge com]
#MSFT ${NASDAQ[MSFT]}
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I closed my (basically unused after one day) #Minecraft account a long time ago. I'm not going to create a #Microsoft account in order to play a game that I don't play.
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I also looked at #Dell and #Microsoft Surface "2n1" tablet-laptop units. Over $1,000 for the cheapest in-stock models, plus all the pain and suffering that goes with using #Windows.
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We talked a lot about #Microsoft's purchase of Activision-Blizzard and other game studios and about price comparisons between #Walmart, #Target, and #Amazon.
If an item is available at all three places, I generally prefer to buy it in person at Target, even if it costs more than either Walmart or Amazon.
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Today is a very slow day. Ordinarily, I'd be using the company-paid #LinkedIn / #LockedOut Learning subscription to learn more about #MSAzure, #AWS, #PowerShell, or even #PHP.
I take courses on both #Microsoft and #Amazon clouds, but never #Google, #IBM, #CenturyLink / #Lumen clouds. I need to look into those clouds.
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@geniusmusing @bobjonkman
#Microsoft has patched the Y2K-alike bug in #Exchange. https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/03/exchange_servery2k22_flaw/
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@geniusmusing
> this is caused by Microsoft using a signed int32 variable to store the value of a date, which has a maximum value of 2,147,483,647
This is basically a Y2K / Y2K32 bug. We’ve known such things could happen since the late 1990s, so I’m really surprised that #Microsoft didn’t use a wider datatype (int64 at least).
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#Microsoft demonstrates its sense of fair play. https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-tells-edge-users-chrome-is-so-2008 [www pcmag com]
#Bing #Edge #Chrome
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/11/latest_windows_11_build_enforces_edge_links/ #Microsoft using tricks to force URLs to open in #MSEdge instead of user's chosen default browser. #Win11
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#Microsoft subsidiary evades taxes on $300B of profits https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-subsidiary-used-bermuda-dodge-taxes-315-billion-profit [www windowscentral com]
#MSFT … that’s rather tone-deaf; the world is asking corporations to pay their fair share of the tax burden and you’re doing this?
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https://honeypot.net/post/bing-is-censoring-tank-man-search-results/
https://nu.federati.net/url/281415
https://nu.federati.net/url/281416
#Microsoft #Bing censors Tienanmen Square "Tank Man" search results, even outside of PRC (where they are required to censor such results). Naturally, since most of #DuckDuckGo's results come from Bing, #DDG searches are also censored.
This is a good reason for DDG to switch from being Bing results with a little additional from Yandex and Baidu results to either fully independent or at least being more of a metasearch engine.
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#Microsoft, #Apple, #Google fight against users' #right_to_repair the devices the user paid for. https://nu.federati.net/url/281249 [www bloomberg com]