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- The Perils of Showboating
- My friend David Spark sent me the link to the above video while we were chatting online this morning, and I facetiously commented it was a little like TechCrunch vs ZDNet. The bizarre contest above, which appears to be between a Capoeira performer and a boxer,...
- Tags: Contest, Online Collaboration, Collaboration, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The company people want Microsoft to bewhat kind of compagny people want MS to beWell not very different that the one we have right now .... except no more fud ( if they have something again opensource just go to court and be done with it if linux...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...
- Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Costs: Wintel vs. open source
- One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years - and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing...
- Tags: Wintel, Hewlett-Packard Co., Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO
- The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISOHoly Spin, you must be dizzy![B]Those advocating greater sales of products other than Microsoft Office see this as their best opportunity to prevent the free market from operating as expected,[/B]There was no free market, this may well be the start of...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., ISO, free market, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Open source tells content owners adapt or die
- Open source tells content owners adapt or dieAnswer your questionDo they deserve to live? Sure. Everyone deserves a chance. Of course the traditional media is still strong, but it is becoming irrelevant a little more every year. It's partly the fault of the 24 hour news networks. How much news...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Now IT, music industry, Internet, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Not one, but two Windows service packs
- Not one, but two Windows service packs"Early" after "well into"?Quoting:That strongly implies that [Vista] SP1 won’t be ready for final shipment until well into 2008.and:Alas, no clues on the actual release date [of XP SP3], but I’m placing my bets on early 2008, after SP1 for Vista.Me, I'm guessing that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), service pack, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, SP1, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Who can declare a "new standard?"
- Who can declare a "new standard?"I think that they're using the phrase . . .in the way that you'd see a Car ad for Ford, or Chrysler, etc, say:"Here at Ford, we've set a new standard in Quality" . . .I seriously doubt they meant a real standard like ODF,...
- Tags: Quality, standards, agreement, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- A Digg riot and AACS
- A Digg riot and AACSRe: A Digg riot and AACSNo, Joe guitar player probably doesn't have the heft to go out and sell advertising for his songs. But he's not going to sell enough music on that $20 a month server to pay the cost to license the DEM...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), advertisement, digital-rights management, Digg
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Dissecting Silverlight
- Dissecting SilverlightMisrepresenting MSWhile your discussion of this product appears thoughtful, your comment:"This can be both good and bad. MS .NET is a nice elegant system that was designed after Microsoft and Sun had their famous falling out over what constitutes "real Java"."Is a wild distortion of the truth. This is...
- Tags: Programming languages, Microsoft Silverlight, MS .Net, Java, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- My favorite Web 2.0 themes: SOA and business applications as advertising platforms
- In my winding discovery tour at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week Im sniffing out two of my favorite themes these days. Im looking for how SOA and Web 2.0 relate, and Im listening for the rumblings of how innovative advertising will augment the subscription model for...
- Tags: Web Services, SOA Governance, SOA, search, SaaS, Microsoft, IT Management, IT Service Management, Google, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- California may adopt OpenDocument
- California may adopt OpenDocumentThis will make Billy and Stevie squirm some more.It will be fun to hear all of the reasons free and open standards are not good, and proprietary standards that can be used to disadvantage competitors are good.Here is where Microsoft's legal department kicks in.Bill Gates and Microsoft...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- If Linux violates Microsoft's patents, let's see the proof
- If Linux violates Microsoft's patents, let's see the proofNope, the patnet holderneeds to do absolutely nothing until they desire to.You're thinking trademark[i]I thought that it was the job of the patent owner to protect their patent against infringement - especially if they publicly state they know that it is happening...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, patent, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!
- IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!Pay attention[i]Tony Chor [...] stated that standards was a high on the agenda for IE7 along with things like security. He said that Microsoft will support "not only official standards, but defacto standards".[/i]And MSHTML is [u]the[/u] [i]de facto[/i] standard. You...
- Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, standards, XFORMS, CSS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- Office or Vista - pick one in 2007
- Office or Vista - pick one in 2007Is there a choice?The last I saw, MSO2K7 only runs on MSVista. MSO2K7 alone isn't an option.Are you kidding? Office 2007 is a disasterLook--I am NOT going to upgrade to Office 2007. Vista seems pretty cool even if it isn't anywhere near...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-07-09
- Microsoft's ODF shotgun wedding
- Microsoft's ODF shotgun weddingQuestion...Why do you dislike PDF?Adobe[i]Microsoft's PDF conversion add-in, though that product is a victim of Adobe deciding that antitrust is a useful way to prevent large competitors from implementing open standards which PDF supposedly is.[/i]Oddly enough, this "decision" by Adobe is only known to Microsoft. Adobe...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- The Java Desktop System and "real-technic"
- The Java Desktop System and "real-technic"Communists and real-technicI wonder who was really surprised to learn of this. Give a commie an inch and they take the mile! Makes you wonder about their commitment to uphold IP in ALL areas. China seems to be doing whatever they want - regardless of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java Desktop System, desktop computer
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff
- Stallman leads the GPL off a cliffClarification needed.Can the studios and their contractors continue to use Linux for special effects despite the antagonism between the studios and Mr. Stallman?Here's John's quote:It has been pointed out that a number of large production studios use Linux. How long do you expect that...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, OPEN SOURCE, digital-rights management, Stallman, GPL, software, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-01-27
- Why does ad-supported software inspire such antagonism?
- Phil Wainewright "responded" yesterday to my defense of ad-based software, or to be more specific, Microsoft's ruminations regarding the viability of offering free or low cost versions of some of their products using ad sales as a revenue source. I used quotes around "responded" because he delivered his arguments while...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., advertisement, software
- Blog posts 2005-11-17
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