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Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar

2021-04-23 KENNETH 0

Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar As people spend more time on their Windows PCs, working, learning, connecting and creating, we’re making it easier to access personalized content that is available at a glance and updated throughout the day.  News and interests on the Windows taskbar will begin rolling out to customers over the next several weeks. We are taking a phased and measured approach and broad availability will occur in the coming months. It should be easy to catch up on the things we care about. Yet, we’re often stuck juggling devices, jumping between websites and looking across sources before finally getting what we’re looking for: relevant and high-quality content. News and interests on the Windows taskbar simplifies this process with a convenient and personalized experience centered around you. News and [ more… ]

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Microsoft’s device partners help drive sustainability

2021-04-23 KENNETH 0

Microsoft’s device partners help drive sustainability “Each year on April 22, Earth Day is observed around the world by people, governments and organizations that acknowledge how important protecting the planet is and commit to creating a more sustainable future,” writes Nick Parker, corporate vice president for Global Partner Solutions, on the Official Microsoft Blog. “In early 2020, Microsoft put a stake in the ground to accelerate our own sustainability journey by announcing our commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 and to reduce our historical emissions by 2050. Since then, we’ve also committed to become water positive, zero waste, build a Planetary Computer, and to protect more land than we use.” In the post, Parker touches on the Microsoft 2020 Environmental Sustainability Report, partner innovations, smart places, more responsible supply chain practices and device partners. “Our hardware partners deliver innovative devices [ more… ]

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Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin Copy by Anne McCarthy (@annezazu) and Design by Mel Choyce-Dwan (@melchoyce) In WordPress circles (whether it’s your local meetup, a trusted publication, or your networking group), you may have heard terms like Core Editor, Gutenberg, and the Block Editor used interchangeably over the last four years. And if you’re following contributor work on the project itself, you may also have heard some additional nuances—Gutenberg plugin, Gutenberg, or Block Editor.  It can get a little confusing, so let’s take a look at four terms that will help you find your way:  WordPress – WordPress refers to the open source software but also to the community that surrounds it.  Gutenberg – Gutenberg is the code name for a multi-year project to update editing areas for the WordPress software. Editor – The editor refers to [ more… ]

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MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New?

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New? The MySQL team is proud to announce the general availability of version 8.0.24 of the MySQL Shell. In addition to a considerable number of bugs fixed, the following changes were introduced. Improved Command Line Integration Integrating the shell functionality in DevOps operations is a key feature and this release has introduced a big improvement on this area being the most remarkable improvements the following: No longer need to execute APIs using the –execute (-e) command line argument: all of the data required for any API available in CLI can be defined through command line arguments (including lists). … Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Source: MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New?

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InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11 Atomics (or GCC intrinsics) were first introduced in InnoDB (5.0) by a patch  from Mark Callaghan’s team at Google for mutexes and rw-locks. InnoDB code then was written in C.  When the code was ported to C++ ,  part of the 5.6 release, there was no C++ standard for atomics.… Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Source: InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11