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Difference between Firmware and Operating System (OS)

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will understand the difference between firmware and operating system. Most people consider firmware as the software, but actual firmware is not the software. However, they carry similar features near to the software components. They are the updated or the modified version of the software.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Operating System

The Crazy Programmer

An operating system is the heart of any computer without which it cannot withstand. It provides all the resources to software, manages the hardware, and implements all standard services for computer programs. In this article, we are going to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an operating system.

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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Virtual desktops are preinstalled copies of operating systems on the cloud. It helps in isolating the desktop environment from the existing system that is accessible on any device. All of the high-end processing tasks and heavy lifting operating system work is carried out on the cloud and not the existing system.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu.

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‘Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets

The Parallax

VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. The first vulnerability stems from compilers’ failure to always instruct software to clear mission-critical data from the computer’s memory.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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History of Oracle Database

The Crazy Programmer

Enterprise grid computing generally is a computer network where every resource of the computers is shared with another computer in a system; it’s based on the client-server technology. Most of the Oracle software generally runs on the server and this server makes shared and simultaneous data access possible. History of Oracle.

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