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- Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
- Our patent system is brokenI just think the PTO isn't sophisticated enough to understand what is really going on.Property List EditorHow would this patent relate to Apple's already existing Property List Editor application, a Developer Tool for editing "plist files" written in XML (along with any other XML files that...
- Tags: word-processing, OOo, XML, patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- News to know: Bing, Twitter, Kindle, E3, Red Hat, Istanbul
- 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. Larry Dignan: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback? Bing's real return: A catalyst to a...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Red Hat Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Engineering, Game Players, Sales Strategy, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist
- 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. Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery Images: Inside the botnets that never make the news right ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NetApp Inc., Craigslist, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Robots, GPS, Document Management, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringementPretty frivolous patent hereAbout on the level of Microsoft's Page Up/Page Down patent.Live by the patent sword, die by the patent swordMicrosoft are 'disappointed' that once again they have been caught out stealing other people's ideas, incorpoarting those ideas into their own branded...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple
- 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. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?damm that open source creeping!I guess this means that cisco doesnt employ strict version control and monitor what goes into their products?I guess that would mean they make good products but dont actually know whats in them and therefore could be...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, open source license, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- News to know: Windows 7 RC; Cloud wars; Scareware; Facebook WWDC;
- 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. Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and the return of the platform wars Microsoft fights the 'open' fight amid the clouds. Techmeme Mary Jo...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Has Microsoft fired its first shot in the patent war against Linux?
- Has Microsoft fired its first shot in the patent war against Linux?The cornered rat is always the most dangerousSimply put, Linux is threatening Microsoft's proprietary model of extracting profits. Others have put it another way: Linux is a disruptive technology: one that overturns the traditional way of doing...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Adrian, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patent
- Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patentMS patents the InternetSays it feels it would like to put its hand into your pocket each time you take a breath too.Sounds like they are just patenting a business model. Hopefully, it will bethrown out. Especially considering this has been done for a long time,...
- Tags: Patenting, Microsoft Corp., patent, PC patent, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-12-29
- Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
- Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and MacAnd so then I guessthat Papermaster [i][b]was[/b][/i] hired just to run the "iPod division"Apple would never think of having him lend a hand in their server products developement.This Apple TV case may just prove how "true" the above mentioned statement is... ;)It...
- Tags: TVs, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Apple TV, Apple AirPort Express, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-12-19
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; iPhone; Storm; iLife patch
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 - The "Blue Badge" experience. Gallery right Michael Krigsman: Sixteen IT failures to remember Garett Rogers: Google makes the blogosphere...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple iLife, Jason O'Grady, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar
- Confirmed: Apple files suit against PsystarThis may end the US based Mac clonesBut it is a big, big world and other countries don't honor the US's laws. I would not be feeling to secure about my overseas markets if I was Apple.Adrian, the hater of PsystarHe seems to have a...
- Tags: Psystar, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardOk..."...argue there is no need for a rival standard to the widely used Open Document Format ODF..."I don't know a single person who uses it.RE: Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardMicrosoft does not need a "standard" for companies to be able...
- Tags: Open XML, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Gets, open standard
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- What+the+SCO+take-out+really+means
- What+the+SCO+take-out+really+meansSuing your way to prosperityDidn't Americans come up with this concept first?SCO should have come up with products we care about rather than be patent nitpickers like Lucent.Boies, Schiller & Flexner... are prepaid and their fees are capped. SCOXQ.PK didn't need to file for bankruptcy to get out of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Carlyle Group, IBM Corp., IBM AIX, IBM AIX/370, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple QuickTime, Beta, BlackBerry Patent App, Google Inc., Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
- Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committeeDoubtful[i]Microsoft's strong-arming of the ISO process regarding Open XML, the proprietary format of Microsoft Office, may be destroying its legitimacy.[/i]I don't see this doing any harm at all to Microsoft's legitimacy.Where's the downside?[i]Is making Microsoft's Open XML format a standard so important that Microsoft is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Word processors, Microsoft Office, open-source community, Microsoft Corp., ISO, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?
- Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?The problemNot to play devil's advocate, but the problem is that the Microsoft formats are more developed than those of ODF. That's the point made in the links from people at GNOME, not me. Should the standard, then, be the less-capable technical...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, XML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Open XML standard, GNOME
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gun
- Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gunThis is why Novell ...The Microsoft Novell deal wheels are starting to come off"It is particularly relevant given that, according to Novell's NTAP information, Microsoft's covenant not to sue Novell users will be extended to "all GPL v3 users as soon...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
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