Tag Archives: Microsoft

Temurin – THE Java distribution! | Head Crashing Informatics 47

Posted on 5. March 2022 by Markus Karg

#Temurin is THE #Java distribution! It is built from #OpenJDK sources by a community including LJUG, iJUG, Microsoft, Azul and lots more, backed by the Eclipse Foundation. A distribution from the community for the community. Free of license fees. Free … Continue reading →

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Microsoft® Java®: Welcome at OpenJDK!

Posted on 31. October 2019 by Markus Karg

Microsoft officially is an OpenJDK contributor now, having a cool team on board with names like Bruno Borges, Reza Raman, Ed Burns and Martijn Verburg. That’s amazing, particularly if you know the troublesome history of both! So finally the Java … Continue reading →

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Microsoft joins Jakarta EE working group

Posted on 23. April 2018 by Markus Karg

Today Bruno Borges, Principal Developer Advocate for Java at Microsoft, announced that his company likes to join the Jakarta EE working group. Why this is worth a note? Because Jakarta EE is the new trade name of the industrial standard … Continue reading →

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Today I was officially notified by Oracle that they started to move several projects from their own (failed) java.net platform to GitHub. This is really great news as it paves the way for simpler contribution, including usage of GIT and … Continue reading →

Posted on 18. April 2017 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on Oracle migrates from java.net to GitHub

One year ago I asked when Microsoft Linux will be done. After it learned docker, now bash was announced at build 2016. Mr Nadalla should simply announce Microsoft Linux finally.

Posted on 4. April 2016 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on Bash for Windows

Microsoft® Linux®

Posted on 21. April 2015 by Markus Karg

So after making their formerly proprietary Windows operating system POSIX compatible, integrating it into a UNIX environment by providing NFS etc., acquisition of two Linux distributors (Novell with Novell OES, and with it the subsidiary SuSE with SuSE Linux) and selling Linux (SELS) … Continue reading →

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