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Microsoft open-sources .NET framework and offers Visual Studio Community 2013 for free

Nov12
by on November 12, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Microsoft has been swiftly moving towards being a more open company. For example, when CEO Satya Nadella told the audience at the Windows 10 preview event that Microsoft loves Linux, it wasn’t a surprise, but rather a bold statement for a company that at one point saw Linux as a threat to its business. Now the company has announced that it will be open-sourcing its full server-side .NET stack and making it available for use on Linux and OS X systems, in addition to Windows. Now developers can use the .NET framework on three of the largest operating systems on the planet. Plus, Visual Studio…

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Microsoft open-sources .NET framework and offers Visual Studio Community 2013 for free

Nov12
by on November 12, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

1022_Microsoft
Microsoft has been swiftly moving towards being a more open company. For example, when CEO Satya Nadella told the audience at the Windows 10 preview event that Microsoft loves Linux, it wasn’t a surprise, but rather a bold statement for a company that at one point saw Linux as a threat to its business. Now the company has announced that it will be open-sourcing its full server-side .NET stack and making it available for use on Linux and OS X systems, in addition to Windows. Now developers can use the .NET framework on three of the largest operating systems on the planet. Plus, Visual Studio…

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Why economic uncertainty is not a bad thing for entrepreneurs

Nov12
by on November 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Gregg Schwartz is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Strategic Sales & Marketing, an industry-founding lead generation company specializing in major account B2B lead generation. The past few years have seen a lot of economic turmoil. Ever since 2007, we’ve witnessed the bursting of the real estate bubble, the stock market crash of 2008-2009, the Great Recession, high unemployment and a few years of painfully slow economic growth. Now it’s 2014 and it seems that in many ways, the US economy is finally starting to return to “normal.” Job growth is up, the stock market has recovered and people are feeling more…

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Why economic uncertainty is not a bad thing for entrepreneurs

Nov12
by on November 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

uncertainty
Gregg Schwartz is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Strategic Sales & Marketing, an industry-founding lead generation company specializing in major account B2B lead generation. The past few years have seen a lot of economic turmoil. Ever since 2007, we’ve witnessed the bursting of the real estate bubble, the stock market crash of 2008-2009, the Great Recession, high unemployment and a few years of painfully slow economic growth. Now it’s 2014 and it seems that in many ways, the US economy is finally starting to return to “normal.” Job growth is up, the stock market has recovered and people are feeling more…

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Google’s DoubleClick for Publishers is down, removing ads from sites across the Web [Update: Back!]

Nov12
by on November 12, 2014 at 2:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Around 9:40 AM EST, several websites using Google’s DoubleClick ad service started experiencing problems as Google’s servers apparently went down. This includes issues from ads appearing blank to entire websites not loading at all. It’s likely affecting millions of advertisements across the Web and could cause advertisers to lose a whole lot of money collectively. Indeed, the shutdown is currently affecting ads on The Next Web itself. We reached out to Google and were told “the team is aware and is looking into it.” We will update you once we receive an official statement on the issue and its cause. Update 10:33 AM: It looks…

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