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Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. Developments Coming In AI. The Windows Terminal App.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

Image Credits: GitHub Star History (opens in a new window) Let’s give some more context to the graph above. From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. That said, we must keep in mind that COSS and developer tools still only occupy a niche.

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ispace wants to stake its claim to the moon with November launch

TechCrunch

Founded in 2010, ispace is one of many emerging companies that want to foster new markets on and around the moon; on its website, it describes its goal as becoming “a gateway for private sector companies to bring their business to the moon.”. ispace’s lander being loaded onto the cargo plane. Image Credits: ispace.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

TechCrunch

Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons. Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. in 2008. .”

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010. Introduce gen AI capabilities without thinking about data hygiene, he warns, and people will be disillusioned when they haven’t done the pre work to get it to perform optimally. But it was.

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Extra Crunch roundup: The Nuro EC-1, early-stage growth tactics, understanding Salesforce+

TechCrunch

In 2010, Google’s autonomous vehicle project placed self-driving cars on Bay Area streets and freeways, but practical applications were thought to be at least a decade away. Image Credits: Peter Dazeley (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Jasmin Merdan (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

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Offering users customer support or consulting services are common revenue streams, according to product development consultant Victoria Melnikova, who also says devs should form partnerships and use platforms like Reddit and Hacker News to reach potential paying customers. “Gable weaves its story together with ease.”

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