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More Evidence That Microsoft Is Reaching Out to Linux with Azure
As noted here at the very beginning of this year, while Linux becomes more firmly entrenched in businesses, and as cloud computing advances in general, Linux will become a huge part of cloud infrastructure. While Microsoft hasn't made a lot of direct statements on the topic, Mary Jo Foley, who usually has a good bead on the company's projects, has been steadily writing about Microsoft's intent to enable Linux on its Azure cloud platform. Now she's uncovered additional signs that these are the Redmond giant's plans, and the whole idea makes a lot of sense for Microsoft.
Samsung's Earnings Illustrate the Economic Power of Android
Sure, everyone knows that Android is winning over developers at surprising rates and competing neck-and-neck with Apple's iOS on smartphones, but it's easy to forget that Android has become a powerful economic force, too. Because Android isn't tied to just one hardware maker, we don't get steady reports giving us the total amounts of money that Android is generating. However, Samsung's latest earnings report provides a good glimpse of how dependent on Android-based smartphones the company has become. Its report also sheds light on why Google can hugely benefit as it moves into the smartphone business through its Motorola Mobility acquisition.
More Automation With AutoKey
The more I use AutoKey, the more I believe it to be an essential piece of software for the Linux desktop. If you happened to miss my last article about it, AutoKey is a system-wide service that allows you to easily set scripts to run when certain key combinations are pressed. AutoKey also lets you set text shortcuts for longer words or phrases. Since AutoKey uses Python for its scripting language, it is incredibly simple to setup a few productivity boosting shortcuts.
GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer
GhostBSD 2.5 was released a few days ago and the headline on ghostbsd.org reads "Now with an Easy and Secure Graphic Installer." GhostBSD is obviously a free BSD (and not coincidently, a FreeBSD derivative), but it aims to be a user-friendly free BSD and to improve the GNOME experience on FreeBSD.
IBM Docs Could Compete with Both Microsoft Word and Google Docs
How unbreakable is Microsoft's lead in word processing? Microsoft Word, of course, is the world's most widely used word processor and has been for many years. But Google has been winning some enterprises over with Google Docs, there are a number of viable open source word processors that offer compatibility with Word, and Word has never faced so much stiff competition. Now, IBM is bringing its Lotus-drive suite of productivity applications to the cloud with IBM Docs, and while its unlikely to shake Word's hegemony right out of the gate, it is more evidence that powerful companies mean to compete with the Redmond giant in the cloud.
Chromium-based Browsers Continue to Proliferate
Quick, how old is Google's Chrome browser? You may be surprised to hear that the browser debuted as recently as December of 2008 (although a pre-release build was available a couple of months before that). Just a few short years later, Chrome is a formidable browser that is threatening to overtake Firefox's market share. The core of Chrome, Chromium, is also open source, though, and a number of different offshoots of Chromium are available. InfoWorld is out with a good assessment of these alternative flavors, and we've covered a few here at OStatic, too.
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Mark WalkerLinux and FOSS practitioner; always trying new apps. Writer. Podcaster. Facilitator. Preferred Linux distribution: Fedora
