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Nice move Microsoft, good PR! Are you scraping the barrel?
#CERN #Microsoft #license #feeCERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' with Open Source Software - OMG! Ubuntu!
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, and also known as home of the Large Hadron Collider, has announced plans to migrate away from Microsoft products and on to open-source solutions where possible.
Why? Increases in Microsoft license fees.
Microsoft recently revoked the organisations status as an academic institution, instead pricing access to its services on users. This bumps the cost of various software licenses 10x, which is just too much for CERN’s budget.
Nice move Microsoft, good PR! Are you scraping the barrel?
#CERN #Microsoft #license #feeCERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' with Open Source Software - OMG! Ubuntu!
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, and also known as home of the Large Hadron Collider, has announced plans to migrate away from Microsoft products and on to open-source solutions where possible.
Why? Increases in Microsoft license fees.
Microsoft recently revoked the organisations status as an academic institution, instead pricing access to its services on users. This bumps the cost of various software licenses 10x, which is just too much for CERN’s budget.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, and also known as home of the Large Hadron Collider, has announced plans to migrate away from Microsoft products and on to open-source solutions where possible.
Why? Increases in Microsoft license fees.
Microsoft recently revoked the organisations status as an academic institution, instead pricing access to its services on users. This bumps the cost of various software licenses 10x, which is just too much for CERN’s budget.
WWW 30th Birthday Playlist
This morning (12 March 2019) Sir Tim Berners-Lee returned to CERN for a panel discussion as part of his 30-hour journey to mark the 30th anniversary of his original proposal for the World Wide Web. As he left, CERN gave him a gift of a playlist from 1989, recorded onto an audio cassette tape and presented together with a Sony Walkman.
Here's the playlist:
* Like a Prayer / Madonna
* She Drives Me Crazy / Fine Young Cannibals
* Desire / U2
* Devil Inside / INXS
* Don't Worry Be Happy / Bobby McFerrin
* Englishman in New York / Sting
* Got My Mind Set on You / George Harrison
* Peek-a-Boo / Siouxsie and the Banshees
* Where is My Mind? / Pixies
* The Race / Yello
* Eternal Flame / The Bangles
* Belfast Child / Simple Minds
* Like a Prayer / Madonna
#web #www #world-wide-web #anniversary #tim-berners-lee #cern #1989 #music #playlist #sony #walkman #cassette #tape
#TheRegister #WWW #NeXT #CERN #Internet #Vintage #Browser #HypertextWWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web
Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb code can't handle much, but hey, it now runs in a browserwww.theregister.co.uk
Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb code can't handle much, but hey, it now runs in a browserwww.theregister.co.uk
