Software Development

Microsoft may finally have its Slack killer

The company reportedly is building Skype Teams, its first product to truly compete against hot group messaging apps

Tutorial: The joys of Windows Server’s group policies

Three examples show the power of GPOs that every Windows admin should be using

OCaml compiler brings type safety to JavaScript

BuckleScript from Bloomberg takes OCaml code and turns it into JavaScript

IT pros predict majority enterprise cloud uptake by 2018

Study shows workloads in cloud rising from 41 percent today to 60 percent in two years

Microsoft open-sources Bing components for fast code compilation

New open source projects from Microsoft's Bing division have applications beyond search, including a framework for generating just-in-time compiled machine code

Stealthy, tricky-to-remove rootkit targets Linux systems on ARM and x86

The Umbreon rootkit runs from user mode but hijacks libc system calls

Cloud Native Ambassadors and Docker Captains navigate users through the container ecosystem

Sophos false positive detection ruins weekend for some Windows users

Sophos antivirus products detected winlogon.exe as malicious, preventing some users from accessing their computers

Warning: iOS 10 makes email harder to use

Changes meant to be helpful instead get in users' way, especially on the iPhone

Linus Torvalds credits GPL with preventing Linux fragmentation

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Korora 24, and games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux