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		<title><![CDATA[Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratchKeeping it simple is good.Thanks for your attention to my post requesting a definition of Red Dog yesterday.I was hoping it might be in the introduction.  But I did encounter more later:Calling Red Dog an ?operating system? is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brand]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brandWell, it is a good brand name for a cheap, tired, worn out search engine.Kuhmo is a brand of cheap tires that quickly wear out. The marketing guys at Microsoft are brilliant in finding brands to fit the products.Microsoft rename Microsoft...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A report card: Microsoft's Ozzie grades his three years of 'disruption']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report card: Microsoft's Ozzie grades his three years of 'disruption'ozzie has been just greatYou can just see on how microsoft has been executing last 4 years. Dev studio 2005,dev studio 2008 had great features for developers. .NET 3.0 .NET 3.5 had lots of cool WCF and WPF features. C#...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?Groove is cool but it lacks one important thingGroove is about synchronization of files on the client. They need to take it a bit further (maybe via "Mesh?") and synrhonize files to the client nodes (PC's, Servers, Phones) and to the Web. That way...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3F]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3FOf course not.MSFT is run by the corporate equivalent of a rogue regime, the largest disinformation organization in the world.  Only when the financial hurt becomes too high and the regime is toppled by the shareholders will anything change.The current regime is far too filled with liars, cheats and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gates' Microsoft future of intense interest]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gates' Microsoft future of intense interestThey need SOMEBODY to be the public face of Microsoft. Balmer is viewed asa chair throwing idiot, they are keeping Ozzie sequestered, who else is there????But, this is an important role, as Microsoft is now forced to NOT give customers what they want in terms...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:47:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jury convicts Brocade ex-CEO in options trial]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jury convicts Brocade ex-CEO in options trialStatute of Limitations and Balmer  and GatesA sad addition to this story is that one of the first abusers of backdated stock options is Microsoft. It is their accounting firm that provided a list of clients to the feds who they knew also...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Novell worries that GPL 3 could foil Microsoft pact]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novell worries that GPL 3 could foil Microsoft pactMan, Richard Stallman has to be crying. Breaking up a deal with the devil,this is just plain sad. Poor Billy and Stevie, this is just too much, I am going to cry myself.And another thing, this is really unprecedented,  Bill Gates...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 06:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane'haha1. Microsoft's cash cows are mostly Windows and Office. Period. Everything else is pretty marginal. Lump the two above and call the "microsoft desktop", and there you have it. A one trick pony.2. Google is doing fantastically well. Their growth has been meteoric. Why would...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:14:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'Funny that Novell was infringing...But Microsoft paid them 150 million for it ???? Don't companies normally sue when you  infringe on their IP not give money to the infringer  ???Balmer is his own worst enemy.[B]I would not anticipate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:16:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized options]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized optionsThe beef...From the page you linked to-[i]Apple's board gave Jobs 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the approval of the company's board, and said the company later falsified documents that purportedly showed a full meeting of the board had taken place to approve the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer a patent troll?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer a patent troll?Not a threat to USERS, Other distros howeverare a different matter.Do yourself a favor, stop trying to whip up sympathy for the Linux distros by making wild a** claims of MS suing end users.  It just make you appear stupid...Big dealIf Linus is staying with GPLv2,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Microsoft's open to more Linux deals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer: Microsoft's open to more Linux dealsLike Loverock doesn't create FUD?Which is what he does quite often, a little too often which is why no one listens. Everyone with sense is sick of the Loverock BS.The FUD on both sides is deafening ...and you, Loverock, contribute a good deal more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A peace prize for Novell and Microsoft?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A peace prize for Novell and Microsoft?And I'm also surprised that...Hovsepian didn't catch him on that.Hmmm, sort of...How would you go about tracking down the thousands of contributors?  Even Linus T. said that would be impossible in responce to the changing Linux the GPL 3 draft.Ballmer misunderstands the GPL[i]"An...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IEThey might also...But they haven't apparently demanded that Microsoft reduce the frequency of and the amount it keeps paying up to all and sundry in settlement or fines and the accompanying legal bills. In case you didn't know, "good will" is considered essential for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 15:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer bets on new sales pitch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer bets on new sales pitchFriends for ConsumptionThis is the company that sells Visual Studio to developers and ISVs and then puts those customers out of business by competing against them via Microsoft Business Solutions. How long is this ultimate act of gluttony going to last? How many more firms...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:18:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sun plans patent protection for open-source Solaris]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun plans patent protection for open-source SolarisMan, Microsoft has to hate this. They attack Linux, and they just dirvecustomers into the open arms of Scott McNeally.Schwartz seems a bit jealous.I wish he would get on with it and we will see which method of licencing is better. GPL has worked...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:25:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Longhorn update: No promises]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longhorn update: No promisesExscusesthey have the money to hire more developers. No exscuse for delay.Even more painful ?Ballmer admits that windows upgrade cycles are painful.Why then do PHBs use easier upgrades as excuses to upgrade to m$ than to open source ?Whats going on here ? For me, upgrading from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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