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- DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business
- M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
- M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Google plugs ‘high-risk’ holes in Chrome browser
- Google plugs ‘high-risk’ holes in Chrome browserBig Brother (spy-eye) is monitoring you.....With the Google desktop search, google tool bar, google toilet paper you are covered from head to toe monitoring!Plus, ALL of the private data is being scanned and sheep follow it because it is so cool.I use a scrapper...
- Tags: E-mail, Social Security, Benefits, Web browser, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-29
- Open source wah a game both parties can play
- Open source wah a game both parties can playFollow the money.In this country, Democrat or Conservative, follow the lobbyists and the incredible slush fund of "incentives" to keep everyone on one proprietary OS and all things related.The DOJ was bought lobbied and MS has never been remotely in compliance.http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/09/battle-brewing-between-states-doj-over-microsoft-settlement-expiration.ars[B]The consent...
- Tags: compliance, Microsoft Corp., open source, game
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
- I’ve been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I’ve tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. In this article and accompanying gallery, I list...
- Tags: Program, Folder, Password, Page, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Product, Microsoft Windows Vista, Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, RoboForm, FeedDemon, FinePrint Software, Process Explorer, Clipboard, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Microsoft antitrust oversight and a changed market
- Judge Kollar-Kotelly announced yesterday that she would extend to November, 2009 the non-documentation related sanctions imposed on Microsoft in its 2002 consent decree, matching the extension of the documentation provisions she had made earlier in the month. The extension isn't of the duration for which the State Attorneys-General had hoped - they...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Antitrust, Protocol, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Internet, Web Browsers, Corporate Law, Business Operations, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft IE may fly in Europe
- It's the brower war v. 2.0. No doubt, Opera’s antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft today to the European Commission is causing huge headaches in Redmond. The Norwegian company, whose pioneering open source browser rose to prominence on mobile devices, claims that...
- Tags: Business Operations, European Commission, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Paula Rooney, Quality, Software, Standards, Web, Web Browser, Web Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Poll: Is Microsoft still dangerous?
- Poll: Is Microsoft still dangerous?Love those pollsOne result gets 100%, another gets 50%The question is......if MS were to triple the OEM price of Windows to vendors who sold systems preloaded with rival systems or who merely promoted or contributed to such systems, would any of them tell MS where to...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Windows, Vertical industries, Mainframes, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2007-10-25
- Microsoft formally withdraws remaining EU appeals
- Microsoft formally withdraws remaining EU appealsMicrosoft won, so why appeal?Microsoft got everything they wanted... an expensive and encumbered information release that open source developers can't use in good faith, rather than publishing their essential protocols openly as the court originally required. They won, why would they endanger that by continuing...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- States ask court to extend oversight of Microsoft
- States ask court to extend oversight of MicrosoftThe questions are...1. Have the illegal anticompetitive practices stopped? I think the ones mentioned in the findings of fact probably have, but MS is actively looking for replacements.2. Would they resume if oversight were to end? I think yes,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- States ask court to extend oversight of Microsoft
- Parts of a consent agreement by which a federal court provided oversight of Microsoft's market behavior are due to expire Nov. 12. And although federal regulators and attorneys general from several states now say the judgment should be allowed to expire, six states and D.C. are asking the court to...
- Tags: Redmond, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- U.S. defends Microsoft remedy at international meet
- U.S. defends Microsoft remedy at international meetMicrosoft is a beacon to the world...The rest of the free world should look to Microsoft as a beacon of hope and a bastion of innovation. Why is it then that Europe continues to throw mud in the face of this benevolent and most...
- Tags: Corporate law, NETWORKING, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Barnett
- Discussion threads 2007-09-29
- 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
- And on the Microsoft legal circuit...
- For those who like their long weekends peppered with a little legal sauce, here are a couple of links: Eolas and Microsoft settle patent case; Terms not yet disclosed The abridged history: Eolas claimed Microsoft's Internet Explorer violated its patent for accessing interactive content...
- Tags: Eolas Technologies Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- The realities of municipal Wi-Fi
- While, in principle, I agree with my colleague, Chris Dawson (Why municipal Wi-Fi is an educational expense), the problems with this approach are huge -- and have nothing whatsoever to do with education. In the 1930's the rationale for providing ubiquitous radio, electrical, telephone, and water resources to everyone was motivated by the...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Google petitions again to weigh in on Microsoft-DOJ case
- If at first you don't succeed, complain, complain again.Google has filed a second request to be considered a friend of the court in the Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust case.As noted by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop, Google filed its latest five-page request on July 2, a week after Judge Collen...
- Tags: Google, Legal, Search, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Microsoft to Google: Take an antitrust lesson from us
- Microsoft to Google: Take an antitrust lesson from usGood pointIf MS had taken a softer line with the DOJ and the states in the late 1990s, they would almost certainly not now be under a consent decree.Computerworld's Frank Hayes did suggest a voluntary breakup. He may well have been...
- Tags: Corporate law, Computerworld, Anti-trust law, Anti-trust, U.S. Department of Justice, antitrust, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Google Desktop goes Linux
- Google Desktop goes LinuxDoes it run on Ubuntu 7.04?? Dell customers would like that.Well, me too.Google does cares about the end users[i]Google Desktop for Linux is proprietary[/i]It is good that google stands behind free and open software. Well, good if [b]someone else[/b] is giving away the free and open software.Well,...
- Tags: Desktops, Google Inc., desktop, Linux, Google Desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- DOJ backs off of Microsoft as former counsel dismisses Google's antitrust claim
- The Bush administration seems to be softening its stance on Microsoft and the company's anticompetitive conduct, reports the New York TimesThis change in attitude mirrors the market shift from desktop software to Internet search and web-based software, which circumvents Microsoft. The recent rejection of an antitrust complaint filed by Google...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
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