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Attackers exploit zero-day Windows flaw

Attackers exploit zero-day Windows flawJust remember, YOU, as a valued Microsoft customer are responsible for ALLdamages due to the carelessness and inattentiveness of Microsoft. They were too busy figuring out how to lock you in to next generation platforms to worry about all the problem you might have with the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Social Security, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Donnie, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Donnieboy, Linux, computer

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites

Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suitesDon't under estimate Google either. They for sure have a team working onthe offline problem as we speak. They need to build a mini web server into Firefox to cash online applications for offline use, and automatically re-sync files on re-connect.They are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, World of Warcraft, Microsoft Office, Donnie, Google Inc., server, Office suites, Nick Carr, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Grid gurus launch a start-up

Grid gurus launch a start-upAnother "solution" looking for a problem?Could just be...No, we have had these problems for a long time, we need solutions.The problem of not being able to use all of your computing resources in a unified and transparent manner has been with us for a long time....

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Donnie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-12-13

Additional Resources

What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?

What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?The biggest thing in IE8 for the enterprise: continued compatibilityproblems and continued foot dragging on the standards front. Also very slow JavaScript. Much slower than the already released version of FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Pretty sad . . . .RE: What's in IE 8...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, enterprise user, standards, Mozilla Firefox, IE8, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to MicrosoftHe didn't dieYou guys make it sound like he died. As much as I bash MS, I do admire what Bill did by founding this company and guiding it to do what it's done for the world. I hope the company well in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, Bill Gates, teary farewell, farewell, Billg, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Micro-bambi meets Googol-zilla

Micro-bambi meets Googol-zillaWell, search does not have any lock-in, you can switch search providers inthe time it takes you to type a URL. So, Google must compete fiercely and stay ahead of the curve. On the other hand, they guys at MS must be the village idiots. They have NO...

Tags: Engineering, Microsoft Windows 2000, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Micro-bambi, lock in, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft

Silverlight and the future core of MicrosoftCompetition"the clout and the brand equity" What Microsoft has is money and the ability to isolate technology and exploit that to beat down competition. I don't mind that they're developing Silverlight but its important that they don't approach this the way they did with...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, .NET, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, tool

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft

Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on MicrosoftAll very interesting. I do hope that Yahoo remains an independentcompetitor to both Google and MS. Consumers will be the losers if we have less competition here. But, Yang is playing this out the best he can. they will...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?

Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?Inconvenient indeed ....I'm 100% in favor of this lawsuit. The movie was nothing more than a self serving political speach and now a bunch of idiots who saw the "movie" think that they know about "global warming".More than 90% of the information presented by the...

Tags: global warming, movie, Gore Lawsuit, Untruths, inconvenient untruth

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Microsoft to Enter SaaS

Microsoft to Enter SaaSHow MS will enter the market... ummm, let me think long and hard about this one ....They'll massively overhype their offerings.Their stuff will underperform.It'll lock you into Windows.There'll be promises of fantastic things in the future which they'll either not be able to get to work, or...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Operating systems, Microsoft SaaS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone apps

Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone appsPhones should be...[url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to anything[/url]Thank god that Android is coming. This will help force the others to openup!!RE: Same oldThank f__king god. Last thing we need is every wannabe programmer/hacker nerd with a hex chart thinking they are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Same Old Same Old, Apple iPod Touch

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Microsoft refreshes beta of its Google Docs competitor

Microsoft refreshes beta of its Google Docs competitorwhy is this a competitor to google DocsThe lsat time i checked and even form your statement office live workspace is basically an online storage center where users can view and track changes to a document created in office. so how does this...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

GrandCentral+suffers+major+outage

GrandCentral+suffers+major+outageWhat say you Donnieboy????Must have been one of those Yahooguys DonnieBoy is going on about Google snaping up. ROFLRE: GrandCentral suffers major outagelooks like their SSL cert also expired on Friday the 15th.never heard of it until now. But when BG said "call person not phone"never heard of GrandCentral...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., outage, GrandCentral, phone

Discussion threads 2008-02-16

Uh oh. Yahoo's Alibaba is antsy about Microsoft; Good luck getting to $40 a share

Uh oh. Yahoo's Alibaba is antsy about Microsoft; Good luck getting to $40 a shareInteresting. The hostile takeover is in itself reducing the value of Yahoobecause partners are running away, employees are leaving, etc. In the end, MS is able to buy Yahoo cheaper because of the damage that THEY...

Tags: Business structures, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-16

Dear stockholders: Please believe us, Microsoft undervalues us

Dear stockholders: Please believe us, Microsoft undervalues usenough already! They told them no!News must be very slow on the M$ innovation front. They told them no the past weekend, and you still beating a dead horse.It's like M$ was turned down for a prom date and can deal...

Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, SMART Money, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?

Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?Yahoo knows that MS will pay more, they are in no hurry. The price willrise to over 60 billion. Microsoft is desperate.LeverageWho can leverage that amount of money? Too few domestic companies would risk it, however, overseas is another story--pleanty of concerns have...

Tags: Investment, Outsourcing, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT JUST, MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-09

Refurbishing an old approach to PC recycling

Refurbishing an old approach to PC recyclingOne problem is that Windows licenses are NOT transferable, so, you MUSTeither buy a new license, OR, install Linux. We may be seeing some flexibility on the part of MS in order to prevent Linux getting installed on refurbished computers.Legal OS is major issueReuse...

Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, PC, Windows License, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?You are again trashing Christopher Dawson's blog. Get you own bloginstead of trashing somebody else's.No.All this talk about training, etc, the Sugar OS on XO requires no training. Security is also baked in, and it has mesh capabilities, ultra low power, etc...Now, all...

Tags: Blogging, blog, One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

MSFT working on XP for XO

MSFT working on XP for XOMicrosoft and end-user support ?"Microsoft for trying to provide formal end-user support" Microsoft and end-user support ? Such as paying for waiting long hours on the phone to get a Microsoft product re-validated ?By "trained technical support staff" you probably mean staff hired and trained...

Tags: Operating systems, OEM-only, Classmate PC, Intel Classmate, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, MSFT

Discussion threads 2007-12-06