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We can learn from the Sony hack
Well that stinks, doesn’t it? Sony Pictures goes and scrubs the launch of a $44 million movie after being hacked, potentially by North Korea. Almost reads more like a James Bond plot than a news story, but there it is. And this time, it doesn’t seem likely that Bond, James Bond, is going to show up at the eleventh hour to save the day
Three ways enterprise software is changing
IT issued computers and laptops to employees, and maintained enterprise software, databases and servers that supported the company, which we
e mostly run in-house.
These days, IT's basic firmament is giving way to a more breathtaking geography that the IT pro must traverse, based on pay-as-you-go cloud computing, building applications and performing deep data analysis. Perhaps more fundamentally, IT operations are moving from merely supporting the business to driving the business itself, which requires agility and making the most of resources.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Microsoft has announced a pre-release version of F# 4.0 and the latest Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Preview.

Microsoft Open Sources .NET?
t looks as if Microsoft just unexpectedly gave away the farm. Of course, this being Microsoft it did no such thing. What has Microsoft just done?
Microsoft has recently seen the sense of open source, but mainly where there is a big payoff to it. You can't blame it for this attitude, after all it isn't a charity.
The recently formed .NET foundation currently looks after the C# and Visual Basic ("Roslyn") compilers, Visual F# tools, ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework. Now you can add the .NET Core Framework to the list.
This effectively means that what looks like a very large chunk of .NET is now open source. more
WPF Lives!

In the early days it was obvious that WPF was the way to build any new project's UI. In addition many already established projects put in the effort to convert their existing WinForms UIs into WPF UIs.
.NET Core The Details - Is It Enough?Written by Mike James Friday, 05 December 2014 Microsoft has just provided some more details about .NET Core - the open source project it recently created. There is some good news and some bad, but possibly more bad in the short term. In a long and detailed blog post the nature of .NET Core is revealed. However, although Immo Landwerth provides a lot of detail, it isn't an easy job making sense of it. First of all the ancient history of the forking of .NET is explained. In case you didn't live though the experience, .NET currently comes in a number of flavours that have a range of incompatibilities. Perhaps the most irritating was the desktop/Silverlight split, but as Silverlight is no more this is just a memory. more
Valve enables region locking in Steam, to stop you buying cheap games from Russia

Netflix says offline viewing will never happen, but fails to give a good reason why

Microsoft is finally allowed to (once again) set IE as the default browser in Windows
For the past five years, Microsoft has been forced to offer first-time Windows users in Europe a choice of web browser. This was a result of an EU ruling in 2009, which found that Microsoft had been unfairly abusing its operating system
monopoly to push Internet Explorer into the hands of millions of unwitting, unfortunate users. The deal only required Microsoft to play fair for five years, though — and that period of imposed atonement has now concluded. Once again, Microsoft is free to make Internet Explorer the default web browser in Windows.
The Open Bay: Now you can download and host your own copy of The Pirate Bay

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Who really hacked Sony Pictures? It probably wasn’t North Korea (updated)

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Researchers build room-temperature memory that doesn’t need a current to retain data
All modern computer memory works on basically the same principle — an electrical current is used to change the charge state of a cell. That charge state is then “read” by the memory controller. Whether we’re talking about NAND flash or RAM, this basic property is identical between them. Now, researchers at Cornell have announced and demonstrated a device based on bismuth ferrite that can store data and retrieve datawithout needing an electrical current to do so. The implications of such a room-temperature breakthrough could be profound — a long time from now.
Recover Files

http://download.cnet.com/Recover-Files/3000-2094_4-10715455.html?tag=main;lsr
Windows XP support has ended
Microsoft first released Windows XP on October 25, 2001 and after over twelve years of supporting the operating system announced it is ending Windows XP support April 8, 2014 which means that they will no longer be providing any further updates.
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