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- Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?
- Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...
- Tags: Word processors, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., post-Windows era, post-Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?Compiz Fusion's magnifier plugins and ADA complianceI've done a test in using a magnifier and enhanced desktop zoom plug-in in Compiz Fusion and it lacked support for input tracking. For example, run openOffice and zoom in until you don't...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating systems, Freedom Scientific, Compiz-fusion, Zoomtext, Linux, Americans with Disabilities Act, desktop, WinDOS, Ubuntu, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield
- On February 21 of 2008, just two months ago, Microsoft announced "strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability." These changes, which would be incorporated into a set of "Interoperability Principles" that would provide API and protocol documentation for connectivity to and from their "high-volume business products" naming...
- Tags: Patent, Centrify, Samba, Protocol, Microsoft Corp., Tom Kemp, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- News to know: Firefox 3 beta 4; Microsoft's mesh; IT metrics
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Untangling Microsoft's mesh This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic Larry Dignan: Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's coming Michael Krigsman: 13 reasons IT hates metrics Ed Burnette: Firefox...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skepticAnd cue NMB'ers ....Personally, I see straight through their horsesh*t.Because they've lied so many times in the past, there is a remote possibility that at some time, once, they said something and I was wrongly over-skeptical, but I doubt it.RE: This is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., skeptic
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months
- Miguel de Icaza, Vice President of Developer Platforms at Novell, said this week the first release of "Moonlight" -- Novell's port of Microsoft's Flash-competitor Silverlight to Linux -- should be done in another six months. De Icaza provided an update on that status of Moonlight during this...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators
- Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translatorsAll part of the planLook like you are cooperating, put enough bugs in the translators so they don't work and people will quit using them and just you MS format. Look back at history and you will find this pattern over and over...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, translator, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches
- Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patchesQuite happy with my GroupWise serverAnother reason why I wouldn't want to use Exchange. It's an overly complex, costly solution that does nothing for me or my users. GroupWise on the other hand issued patches that worked! No ifs, and,...
- Tags: Patches, Workstations, E-mail servers, Groupware, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Corp., patch management, DST
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- EU warns Microsoft of more fines
- EU warns Microsoft of more finesEU, you didn't set the price mark for which MS could charge?how open to further lit of you. Just have MS pull all their product and replace it with you formal plans for Linux and OSS, . . it's clearly on the walls written...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategy
- Microsoft is "trying to restrict customers flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can run it." Those are the charges levied by Microsoft virtualization competitor VMware, which over the past few days, has come out swinging against Microsoft. ...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Virtualization, Vista, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- The succession problem and open source
- The succession problem and open sourcecompanies overtake other companies.IBM was overtaken by Microsoft.Dell was overtaken by HP.In search, initially it was Altavista and currently it is Google (again closed source. Nobody outside Google has seen the search code of Google).Open Source isnt even in the picture.The only area where open...
- Tags: open source, succession problem
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Microsoft dallies with open source
- Microsoft dallies with open source"Won't you come into my parlor."Said the spider to the fly.Embrace, Extend ... Extinguish is the "help" MS has for the OSS community. I'll believe MS is out to "help" ANYBODY when a single call to tech support doesn't result in a tab that is...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- Apple calls French law 'state-sponsored piracy'
- Apple calls French law 'state-sponsored piracy'What behavior is that, exactly?---Apple's behavior is even worse than MS. The only reason it hasn't faced a deluge of Anti-Trust lawsuits around the world is that it is a relatively minor player in the PC/OS market.---Can you show us all where Apple has broken...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, piracy, Apple iTunes, music
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- France pushes ahead with iTunes law
- France pushes ahead with iTunes lawThree Cheers!!This is a great thing for consumers. Enough of proprietary DRM, which locks consumers into specific brands, deters competition and leads to price distortions.About time someone stood up for consumers.It's a pity we won't see similar legislation in the USA. But our Senators...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, government, U.S. Congress, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Microsoft releases another XML spec
- Microsoft releases another XML specNow did that hurt anybody? And, is it complete?[i]The software giant will [b]provide documentation and royalty-free licenses[/b] for the extensible markup language XML schema the diagramming and drawing program uses to describe documents.[/i]And exactly how does allowing others to interface to an MS product in new,...
- Tags: StarOffice, Linux, UNIX, BSD, Microsoft Corp., Licensed Implementation, XML, open source
- Discussion threads 2004-04-15
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