--- title: Best Microsoft posts — August 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Microsoft posts from August 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft/best-of/2022/08 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft/best-of/2022/08 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Microsoft posts — August 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Microsoft posts from August 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Microsoft — August 2022 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/free-ai-for-beginners-course-dgut6tegy "Free AI for Beginners Course") Article KDnuggets · 4y Free AI for Beginners Course A 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum designed to introduce learners to the world of AI. You can see specific course content, laid out lesson by lesson, here. If you are interested in knowing more, you might want to get to know the instructors for the course. 76 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/docusaurus-2-0-meta-s-static-site-generator-to-build-beautiful-documentation-websites-kr5y6mza1 "Docusaurus 2.0 🥳️: Meta's static site generator to build beautiful documentation websites") Article Hashnode · 4y Docusaurus 2.0 🥳️: Meta's static site generator to build beautiful documentation websites Docusaurus 2.0 is a documentation static-site-generator, based on Node.js and React. It allows you to focus on content: just write Markdown files. It is already powering many great docs sites you know: React-Native, Redux, Tauri, Electron, Courier, Figma. 38 10 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/explain-in-5-levels-of-difficulty-linux-ily2bepri "Explain in 5 Levels of Difficulty: Linux") Article Hashnode · 4y Explain in 5 Levels of Difficulty: Linux The Linux kernel was first released to the public in 1991 by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds. The kernel is the core of a Linux operating system and provides basic services such as memory management, process management, device drivers, and system call handling. 22 4 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-package-manager-1-3-g-s58jdze "Windows Package Manager 1.3") Article DevBlogs · 4y Windows Package Manager 1.3 The Windows Package Manager Community Repository will begin accepting submissions for other portable packages after the upgrade has rolled out to a majority of the user base. This should take about one week. If you want to submit a pull request, go ahead. 22 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/ex-microsoft-ux-director-blasts-windows-11-start-menu-0pukwrv-v "Ex-Microsoft UX director blasts Windows 11 Start menu") Article The Register · 4y Ex-Microsoft UX director blasts Windows 11 Start menu Ex-Microsoft UX director Jensen Harris blasts Windows 11 Start menu. Harris: "It should represent the very best UI design the company is capable of... Design matters. 13 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-deepspeed-deepspeed-is-a-deep-learning-optimization-library-that-makes-distributed-traini-boyuf8vjh "microsoft/DeepSpeed: DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.") Article Pointer · 4y microsoft/DeepSpeed: DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective. DeepSpeed trained the world's most powerful language models (MT-530B, BLOOM) Azure and DeepSpeed empower easy-to-use and high-performance model training. DeepSpeed is an important part of Microsoft’s new AI at Scale initiative to enable next-generation AI capabilities at scale. It is not tied to specific PyTorch or CUDA versions. 13 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/fauxpilot-like-github-copilot-without-microsoft-telemetry-xaf6jsqoh "FauxPilot: Like GitHub Copilot without Microsoft telemetry") Article The Register · 4y FauxPilot: Like GitHub Copilot without Microsoft telemetry GitHub Copilot is a tool for generating programming code suggestions with the help of AI models. It relies on OpenAI Codex, a natural language-to-code system based on GPT-3 that was trained on "billions of lines of public code" in GitHub repositories. Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days. 14 1 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/net-6-is-now-in-ubuntu-22-04-eanccgilk ".NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04") Article DevBlogs · 4y .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) and can be installed with just apt install dotnet6.NET in Chiseled Ubuntu Containers.NET delivers the smallest container footprint while still being the Ubuntu you know and trust.NET is similar to conventional distroless, with a tool that is customized for slicing.deb packages. The images will be offered in our nightly repos. 12 9. 9 [](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-2022-17-3-is-now-available--z-ayisr8z "Visual Studio 2022 17.3 is now available!") Article Visual Studio Blog · 4y Visual Studio 2022 17.3 is now available! NET Multi-platform App UI has graduated from preview in Visual Studio and is now available on Windows. Pick Azure as the deployment target and Azure Container Apps will be one of the options available to you. 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