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fromTheregister
2 days ago

Legacy Update improves its Microsoft Download Center archive

Legacy Update restores archived Microsoft Download Center files and provides automatic update discovery and installation for unsupported Windows versions and device drivers.
fromNature
2 months ago

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

But software evolves. Most open-source software used in research is refined both iteratively and collectively, and has no published 'version of record'. Updates can target various versions and releases, meaning that each aspect of the software - the project as a whole, a specific version or a single file - can require a different way to refer to it. This creates confusion.
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