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Stop quoting Steve Ballmer
Every tech press story on new Azure Linux release, a WSL milestone, a Microsoft Linux kernel contribution, a patent pledge, and somewhere in the first few paragraphs someone reaches back to 2001 to quote Steve Ballmer calling Linux "a cancer."Stop. It's p
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Don't ask Microsoft to do it all
dotnet/core#10448 was opened, and it has the .NET community debating this. Again. The issue: "Enterprise concern: .NET LTS support window too short for upgrade and adoption cycles." The dev who opened the issue is on a team that runs about 5 million lines
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Azure Linux "Desktop": A Build 2026 mashup of wslc, WinUI Reactor, and Azure Linux 4.0
I made a thing... 0:00 /0:49 1 I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026.Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window. It opens, starts an embedded Linux container, and a f
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Build a Custom WSL 2 Kernel in 2026
WSL 2 ships with its own kernel: a Microsoft-maintained fork of the Linux kernel, updated regularly and tested against Windows. For most workloads it is exactly what you want. But sometimes you need a module that is not compiled in, an out-of-tree driver,
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I'm running for the .NET Foundation Board
I'm on the ballot for the 2026 .NET Foundation Board election.UPDATE: Kevin Griffin has shared some updates on the .NET Foundation financial picture on LinkedIn. It's good news:Read more at the .NET Foundation site. Sometimes it's good to be wrong. I can
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