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Windows Community Toolkit 8.1 Updates Dependencies for .NET 8 Support
Microsoft released version 8.1 of the Windows Community Toolkit in August 2024. The new release has updated dependencies, .NET 8 support, two new controls and several changes to existing controls and helpers.
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Podman Desktop 1.13 Launches with Hyper-V Support and Additional Enhancements
Podman Desktop 1.13 introduces key updates, including Hyper-V support for managing Podman machines on Windows, an integrated image search feature, and redesigned empty state pages for containers, images, pods, and Kubernetes. The release also includes a reorganized Kubernetes navigation and an Image Layer Explorer extension.
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Swift 6 Officially Available
The Swift team has officially announced the availability of Swift 6, a new major version of Apple open-source language with focus on low-level and embedded programming, concurrent code safety, new cross-platforms APIs, and extended Linux and Windows support.
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Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift across Platforms
While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platforms where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.
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CrowdStrike Update Bricks Estimated 8.5M Windows Machines Worldwide
CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company, recently released a product update that bricked an estimated 8.5 million computers running Windows globally, affecting businesses, individual users, and software companies. The company provides cloud workload protection, endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.
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AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times
AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate. Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy. The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times.
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Microsoft and IBM Release MS-DOS 4.0’s Source Code under the MIT License
Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced on git the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. In addition to the source code for MS-DOS 4, the public git repository contains unreleased beta Multitasking DOS binaries, the ibmbio.com source, and the scanned PDFs of the Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 (MT-DOS) documentation.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.
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Sudo for Windows - Elevating Command Execution in Windows 11
Microsoft announced that Sudo for Windows will be available in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. This tool transforms how users execute elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. Sudo for Windows provides an intuitive and familiar solution, eliminating the need to open a new elevated console and enhancing the user experience.
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AWS Launches AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory
AWS recently launched the AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) Connector for Active Directory (AD). It is a new feature that allows enterprises to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Dev Box, a service providing developers access to preconfigured and centrally managed dev boxes.
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Windows Dev Drive - Storage Volume Customized for Developers with Improved Performance
Microsoft released Dev Drive at the Build 2023 developer conference, a custom storage volume geared for developers. Built on top of Microsoft's proprietary ReFS (Resilient File System), Dev Drive is optimized for heavy I/O operations and has improved performance and security capabilities.
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Microsoft Build 2023: Bing AI and Copilot Plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric and More
This year's Microsoft Build was focused on artificial intelligence, with new Copilot experience additions for Windows 11 and Edge, as well as new Bing AI and Copilot plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI. Key announcements also included the Microsoft Fabric analytics platform, the introduction of the Microsoft Dev Box for development environments, and upgrades within Microsoft Azure.
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Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to the Edge with AKS Edge Essentials
Microsoft recently announced the general availability release of AKS Edge Essentials, a new Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offering designed to simplify edge computing for developers and IT professionals.
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Windows Terminal 1.17 Preview Released
Windows Terminal preview version 1.17, released on January 24th, brings various features and bug-fixes to Microsoft’s own open source terminal application. Notable features include Dropdown Menu Customization, Process Restart support and an improved Color Schemes Page.