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- SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs
- SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costsPlease be careful when you claim "paid support"Dennis, Unless you have a copy of the invoice from IDC, you shouldn't flatly state that she was paid or otherwise compensated for her quote in a press release. Bad form from an otherwise reliable...
- Tags: Firewalls, Dennis, SAP AG, support cost, financial relationship, trigger
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Once again......late to the game. The "alternate" browsers have had these for a while. Competition breeds improvement, apparently. ;)It will still suckBeing a MS product, it will still suck.RE: Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Why would...
- Tags: Web browsers, cross-site scripting protection, Anti-malware blocker, Anti-Malware, IE 8, blocker, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?
- Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?I don't see the problem with getting cash back on my purchases. If it saves me some money then so be it. I see it as...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Wants, Microsoft Corp., neutrality, toolbar
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- RIP OLPC
- RIP OLPCWintel is a bit - well, 'legacy'Those kids that get XP rather than OSS olpcs will miss out on the rather more interesting experience. Certainly, for learning about computing, XP can hardly be regarded as an honest opportunity.Agree about editing and recompiling software though - it luckily isn't...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, RIP OLPC, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship
- Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorshipThis is nonsense ...Any company wanting to do business anywhere in the world has to abide by the laws of that nation. We cannot imposed the First Amendment on the Chinese Government any more than they can imposed censorship on us. ...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, censorship
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Whispers will not kill fair use
- Whispers will not kill fair useDon't discount the power of briberyThe amount of money and influence poured into Congressional coffers by the media cartel is huge. Add to that the fact that both elected officials and bureaucrats suffer from "star worship" as the general populace. Just look at the Hilary...
- Tags: Government, GWB, fair use, international law, epitome, indifference
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the voteIt's capitalism, all right!A capital offense against mankind.And all the sheep bleat happily as they line up to be sheared.This is fantastic newsThis means that the man on the street can sponsor Penelope and Rupert's riches through their...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is tickingRe:IMHO, it should get standardized as technically it's superior again anyone will argue so I'll say it's supports a superset of features than ODF and can accomodate all the features Office offers. But I doubt it will be standardized by ISO. Foolish Governments...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Open XML, FUD, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, ISO
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- OOXML standard vote down to the wire
- OOXML standard vote down to the wireFor the latest OOXML vote news...unfettered by potential or imaginable gravitational warpage by commercial interests, visit Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/.Thanks for the link........And..... For all the poor deluded people who cannot think outside the Microsoft box... here is a roundup of current events: The world grew...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Chotskies+-+promotional+marketing+tools%3F
- Chotskies+-+promotional+marketing+tools%3FThe mug with the logo may not influence purchasing decision...but it may help in keeping the company in the purchaser's mind, seeing it all the time on the desk.RE: Chotskies - promotional marketing tools?Everyone is entitled to his own opinion and Dan's opinion of Advertising Specialties may have been complicated...
- Tags: Dan
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Microsoft antitrust oversight and a changed market
- Microsoft antitrust oversight and a changed marketPast actions speak louder the future promises!Most of us DO NOT trust anyone who has taken advantage and harmedus in the past. An abusive parent does not deserve a "get out ofjail free" card just because they raised the abused child.Courts seem to...
- Tags: antitrust, Microsoft Corp., windscreen
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Novell: Microsoft open source deal has halo effect
- Novell: Microsoft open source deal has halo effectAny way you view it, this was a winning movefor Novell. Well, other than the Linux zealots crying that is.Novell is learning the basics of Creative AccountingFrom the masters of deception. But they failed to see the horns underneath the Halo.Soon they...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Office, Operating systems, open source, Sheep, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Office Update, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Why regulations are important
- Why regulations are importantWhy did the roaming charges exist?Or, more precisely, why didn't competition stop the dominant players from colluding?In the US, roaming charges are for the most part a thing of the past. Competition eventually squashed them, even though the number of players in the US market isn't...
- Tags: Regulations, regulation
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Applying the transparency taste test
- Last week I was in Berlin as the guest of SAP and Transparency International. For those that are unfamiliar, TI is a pressure group that addresses issues around corruption. It operates in some of the most difficult parts of the world. It tends to focus on the governmental factors impacting...
- Tags: Software, Tax, Industry, Texas Instruments Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Reality, Tools & Techniques, Taxes, Strategy, Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers won
- Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers wonSomething elseThe first order of business is to make sure that people who [b]want[/b] to do business with you aren't prevented from doing so.I spend a lot of money on WebScription e-books. No DRM, and all...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, content company, music, advertisement, Warner Music Group Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Tags: JEDEC, Specification, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, Session, Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- And on the Microsoft legal circuit...
- And on the Microsoft legal circuit...Tick, tick, tick[i]California and a handful of other states told the judge overseeing Microsoft’s compliance with the terms of its antitrust settlement with the U.S. government that the Consent Decree has done little to curb Microsoft’s anticompetitive behavior.[/i]And this matters any more -- how?Come November,...
- Tags: Linux, Corporate law, Processors, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
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