Bill Gates reveals views on Windows 8, Surface Pro, and Apple

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	Bill Gates reveals views on Windows 8, Surface Pro, and Apple Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates took to Reddit yesterday for an "Ask me anything" style interview with the site's users. While a goodly part of the conversation focused on his work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates fielded plenty of questions about his views on Microsoft and its current offerings, on Apple, and about his perspectives on the state of information technology. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: OSBC OSBC - Open Source Conference – 4/29-4/30 Register Now! Connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open-source, mobile and cloud technologies, including HTML5 frameworks like jQuery and SproutCore, NoSQL databases like Mongo, Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Cassandra, and cloud platforms like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. Click to continue In this Issue How Facebook Connect took down the Web Linux Foundation releases secure boot loader Intel releases SSD cache acceleration software for Linux servers Nokia and LG debut dual-SIM phones WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required Wish you could get 50% or more application performance on your VMs…without having to purchase more expensive hardware to get it? This guide offers insight to the I/O explosion brought about by virtualization, addresses the problem of unnecessary I/O at the source and how you can solve it without hardware to go up to 50% faster or more. Read Now! How Facebook Connect took down the Web From the beginning, Facebook has helped popular websites become even more popular by allowing people to post status updates full of links that have guided their friends to the Web pages they visited. Then last Thursday, the websites that were closest to Facebook started crashing, and the world learned the potential downside to giving Facebook such a central role on the Internet. Read More Linux Foundation releases secure boot loader Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware. The Linux Foundation Secure Boot System solves a fundamental problem for many Linux distributions, by providing a way for a Linux-based OS to run on new hardware controlled by UEFI firmware, also known as "secure boot" technology. Read More Intel releases SSD cache acceleration software for Linux servers Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which it said can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing systems. Additionally, Intel's CAS now supports caching to NAND flash (solid-state drives and PCIe cards) in storage arrays. And it supports VMware vMotion, which allows virtual machines to migrate between systems while maintaining hot data on cache, regardless of the host machine. Read More Nokia and LG debut dual-SIM phones Nokia and LG Electronics have both launched new phones that can handle two SIM cards. Offering dual-SIM products has become increasingly important in the last couple of years. They allow users to get better tariffs or switch between SIMs for personal or work use. Read More
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