Nano Diet Windows | Tech Talk Today 159

Posted on: April 17, 2015

In Microsoft’s attempt to capitalize on container excitement they be rushing to ship a subpar product. We’ll discuss the possible weakness of Windows Server’s Docker implementation.

Plus new interesting details turned up by the Sony Hack, a tip of that hat to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews & more!

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Microsoft Is Making a Stripped-Down Windows to Rival Linux | WIRED

Microsoft’s flagship operating system operates quite differently from Linux—which could be a problem as containers become the preferred way of computing in the cloud. But now, as so many others follow the lead of giants like Google and Twitter, Microsoft is reshaping Windows so that it doesn’t get left behind.

Wikileaks publishes hacked Sony emails, documents | ITworld

It’s made up of 173,132 emails and 30,287 documents, including some that contain highly personal information about Sony employees including home addresses, personal phone numbers and social security numbers.

After fifteen years, Ars says goodbye to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews | Ars Technica

For your reading enjoyment, here is the grand John Siracusa OS X Ars timeline:

Mac OS X DP2, December 14, 1999
Mac OS X Update: Quartz & Aqua, January 17, 2000
Mac OS X DP3: Trial by Water, February 28, 2000
Mac OS X DP4, May 24, 2000
Mac OS X Q & A, June 20, 2000
Mac OS X Public Beta, October 3, 2000
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), April 2, 2001
Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma), October 15, 2001
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, September 5, 2002
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, November 9, 2003
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, April 28, 2005
Five years of Mac OS X, March 24, 2006
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, October 28, 2007
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, August 31, 2009
Here’s to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews, May 12, 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, July 20, 2011
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, July 25, 2012
OS X 10.9 Mavericks, October 22, 2013
OS X 10.10 Yosemite, October 16, 2014

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