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- Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?
- Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft's Bill Hilf right, now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was "revealing" the company's open source strategy. In fact he did nothing of the kind. He claimed proprietary software offers a "guarantee" it works...
- Tags: Information Week, Microsoft Corp., Bill Hilf, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell
- (This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?
- Bill Hilf, Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, has finally blogged about Microsoft's decision to go public with its claims that it has found 235 patent violations by open source software on various Microsoft products."Our IP strategy has not changed," said Hilf and Microsoft's head of the company's open-source-software...
- Tags: Linux, Legal, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
- Can Bill Hilf change the Microsoft culture?
- Can Bill Hilf change the Microsoft culture?When Caesar went to war in Gaul...... he gathered up every scrap of information he could find about his adversaries. Even spoke to a number of tribesmen.Not that open sourcers are like Gauls. More clothes, less torque.Change of diet[i]But I think the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Gaul, Bill Hilf, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Can Bill Hilf change the Microsoft culture?
- Microsofts open source strategy is at last in open source hands.They are in the hands of Bill Hilf, a former C|Net architect who now carries the exalted title of general manager, platform strategy at Big Green. He has had a quick rise in the company -- he was Linux Lab...
- Tags: Bill Hilf, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Microsoft-Novell: Oracle's the elephant in the room
- Microsoft and Novell did, indeed, announce a collaborative partnership deal, as expected, on November 2. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized throughout his remarks during the press conference announcing the deal that Novell and Microsoft have been discussing the particulars for months. But there's no way anyone can tell me that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- MS platform chief: closed-mindedness about open source continues
- While Microsoft has been increasingly tip-toeing into open source via SourceForge projects, Shared Source licenses and Linuxlab, getting to this place where Open Source is no longer considered a pejorative by Microsoft has been a slow and deliberate process that must be massaged both internally and externally.At Microsoft, that massaging...
- Tags: Bill Hilf, open source
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Microsoft's Linux and open source labs
- "At the end of the day, we're in it for business reasons. I exist for business reasons. I do not exist as a PR stunt or as sort of an olive branch." --Bill Hilf, Microsoft director of platform technology strategy, who heads the company's Linux and Open Source Software Lab,...
- Tags: Linux
- Blog posts 2005-08-12
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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from KentuckyHypocrites and anti-competitionWhat exactly is Kentucky's problem with online gambling? It must not be the gambling part because these same people admit to trying to get casinos into Kentucky. So it must be an effort to do away with the competition...
- Tags: Games, Domain names, Taxes, Poker Sites, Hypocrites, game, domain name
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Microsoft shows interest in WaMu bankruptcy over software agreements
- When Microsoft filed a "notice of appearance" in the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings - which is basically a request to be kept updated on developments of the case - and then initially declined to comment about its interest in the case, the speculation began. (Silicon Alley Insider wondered if Microsoft...
- Tags: Software, Washington Mutual Inc., Enterprise Software, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Bankruptcy, Times, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- $236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...
- Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Apple dominates the teen vote, but...
- Teenagers just love their Apple gear as the iPhone and iPod widen their lead among this fickle set. According to a Piper Jaffray report Apple is dominating teenagers' buying patterns. The high level details of a survey of 769 teens: 22...
- Tags: Teen, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, 401(k), Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (for Pocket PC 2002) (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Pocket PC 2002, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Pocket PC, Investment, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Hardware, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
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