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Quit pickin' on Microsoft, EU

Quit pickin' on Microsoft, EUMedia Player is the least interesting partIf you look at the ruling, Media player is the least interesting part of the ruling. What's more interesting is what this ruling means. Some legislation concerning competition was put on hold, but will be implemented in the next year....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Bravo EU, WMP

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

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News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard

Why writing a Windows compatible file server is still hardThis article was more chatty...than SMB/CIFS. I was ready for the answer to the riddle about half way through. But other than that... interesting stuff. It makes me want to test the issue. Thanks.Good jobntLolSo A windows feature is...

Tags: File servers, Storage management, Servers, Operating systems, Windows CIFS, Is it Microsoft, Samba, Microsoft Corp., file server, server, Windows Compatible, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Microsoft, just give the protocols away

Microsoft, just give the protocols awayI wonder sometimesif this isn't Microsoft's entire problem these days.[i]Microsoft just needs to trust that is the case, and resist the jitters which naturally comes from any attempt at tinkering with the cash machine that is Microsoft.[/i]They used to laugh at IBM because they couldn't...

Tags: opposite, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

Opportunity and threat of open source hardware

Opportunity and threat of open source hardwareCall the Police[i]There are no police going through these programmers' code stacks. It's a civil agreement based on consensus. But in the heat of personal and corporate competition, will Asian programmers and companies live up to it?[/i]Yes and no -- as soon as a...

Tags: F/OSS, hardware, Linux, programmer, open source

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week away

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week awayWell, if so, it's just a counterbalance to the ABM zealots.And their whining that you're a 'tard if you use a product produced by Microsoft.Mostly right.But Microsoft did have documentation for aspects of their software that a business of Microsoft's size might be expected...

Tags: commission, compliance, Microsoft Corp., API

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

Microsoft changes Vista license terms

Microsoft changes Vista license termsThe coupon is for OEM versions.They are not going to upgrade you from OEM to Retail. You will be locked to the motherboard that shipped with the system.Oh yeah, until they employ the "changable"clause in their EULA and press ahead after suckers have already -...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, coupon, Microsoft Corp., computer, Microsoft Windows Vista, OEM, Microsoft Windows, sanity

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Ballmer: Not the time to scale back

Ballmer: Not the time to scale backBallmer has been NegligentDarn it -- if this fellow just paid attention to Microsoft rather than spreading himself so thin by also sitting on the board of Accenture, until recently, he would not have missed the great opportunities with multi-core business PCs/phones and consulting....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Micrsoft, Windows Live Era, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Live Era

Discussion threads 2006-05-01

Johnny can so program

Johnny can so programProgrammingToo bad you get paid by the word. It's not that Johnny can or can't program. Our programmers are paid less than a medial mid-level manager who doesn't know his a** from his elbow. Besides, the real engineers don't waste their time on simple logic these daize,...

Tags: free market, General Motors Corp., Microsoft Corp., programmer

Discussion threads 2005-05-11

Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing Windows

Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing WindowsWow a new name"The company demonstrated the software at a supercomputing conference in Pittsburgh and also unveiled a new name for the product: Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition."Great news from MS for all their super-computing users;-)Microsoft on the Cutting Edge Once AgainHow did Microsoft ever come...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Bill G., SC2004, Microsoft Corp., supercomputing, cracker, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-11-08

Linux ensnares another European city

Linux ensnares another European cityThe trickle is becoming a stream; the stream is becoming a tidal wave ...Microsoft is powerless to stop Linux now.Come on NoAx, ShadeTree, Seosamh. . . Can't wait to see how you spin this.The anticipation is killing me...Let'ssee how this is going to play out in...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., anticipation, Tuftedal, composer, Linux, Red Hat Inc., SuSE

Discussion threads 2004-06-17

Munich to stick with open source

Munich to stick with open sourceLet the flame wars beginIt will be interesting to see what TCO is after a year of using linux compared to MS. I am all in favour of it, I attended the MS roadshow and it was a thinly disguised marketing attempt, as they where...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, migration, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-17

EU's Monti stands behind Microsoft fine

EU's Monti stands behind Microsoft fineStatoil and Norsk Hydro, which faced fines of $3bn and $2bn respectively.EU don't like anti competive behaviorhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2134674.stmThe U.S. judicial system simply doesn't work !No reason to blame the EU for the shortcomings of the U.S. judicial system. We should be ashamed to let bullies like...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Strategy, IT Personnel, Monti Boy, Microsoft Corp., Monti

Discussion threads 2004-04-16