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Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRS: Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRSGood ideas are squashed by the big boysA few years ago there was a great company called Mirra. I heard people rave about Mirra backup systems. Then one day Seagate snatched them up. They were quickly buried into the corporate depths and never seen again. Seagate...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Backups, Seagate Technology LLC, cookie, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MICROSOFT HAS, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-02-21
Gorillas and antitrust regulators: Gorillas and antitrust regulatorsMicrosoft's biggest gain from the settlement...... is the recognition of conquered territory. Quoting an article from March, 2007:"According to Kroes, Microsoft held 35 to 40 percent of the workgroup server market in 1999, when the EU first began investigating claims that the software giant was abusing...; Tags: Litigation, Desktops, antitrust, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-10-22
Microsoft has changed (some of) its monopolistic ways: Microsoft has changed some of its monopolistic waysKerberosPerhaps the new, ethical Microsoft will publish its modifications to Kerberos so that Windows clients can use non-Microsoft autheneticaion servers. They agreed to this in 1997 (http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1997-11/embraces.html) but nothing ever came of it. So it seesm to me that they aren't...; Tags: Kerberos, Operating systems, UNIX, Web, Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT HAS; Discussion threads 2007-09-14
Rivals say Microsoft has not changed its ways: Rivals say Microsoft has not changed its waysRivals say Microsoft has not changed its waysWhat did you think the rivals would say? They so badly want to believe that Microsoft did all this wrong doing when in reality they haven't. Microsoft has changed. They are working with...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT HAS; Discussion threads 2007-09-14
Microsoft and Open Source: Kissing cousins: Microsoft and Open Source: Kissing cousinsIf it works, don't fix itSome of us remember the Solaris port of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.The Dementor's KissYou know, the process whereby the malevolent, wraith-like, beings in the Harry Potter books suck the life out of the living.That's what any kiss by Microsoft is intended...; Tags: Kerberos, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., open source, MICROSOFT HAS; Discussion threads 2007-08-20

Microsoft going after Sage/QuickBooks: This is a guess post by Dennis Howlett.One of the less talked about pieces to come out of Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference was the understated announcement that the Redmond Giant is readying to roll out Dynamics Entrepreneur Edition. What's that you might ask and in truth, details are a...; Tags: Microsoft, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-11
Maybe they're smarter than I thought: About three weeks ago I railed against Microsoft for publicly announcing so many 'flavors' of Windows Vista (see What was Microsoft thinking?) -- a total of SIX, although two of them Starter Edition and Enterprise Edition are not even available to consumers anywhere in the industrialized world. But what I was most perplexed...; Tags: Vista, Microsoft, Legal; Blog posts 2007-06-25
Bob Muglia: Microsoft changing its approach to interoperability: "What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years." Those are the words of Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president of servers and tools.He was speaking at the Interop...; Tags: General, IT Management, Microsoft, Open Source; Blog posts 2007-05-23
GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign: With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsofts decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell; Blog posts 2007-05-14
The EC and Microsoft frustration: The EC is still complaining about Microsoft. This time, Neelie Kroes laments Microsofts growing workgroup server market share, which now stands at 75% versus 35% in 1999. This, it would appear, she blames on Microsofts "secret protocols," as that is the only possible reason Microsoft has for beating nominally lower-cost...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsofts, secret protocol, MICROSOFT HAS, Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2007-03-26
How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?: How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?Mr. Allchin's observation...... that intensive work on Longhorn/Vista began only after SP 2, and so required two years rather than 5 appears relevant.Add his comment from an earlier article that design simplification and documentation was a major effort, substantial code wrangling.The bureaucracy and reliance...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT HAS, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, window; Discussion threads 2006-11-27
Meanwhile, on the non-video-search side of the house …: While most Web 2.0 watchers are fixated on Google buying YouTube-- and what else, beyond partnering with video-search vendor Blinkx, Microsoft will do about it -- Microsoft has been rolling out new betas and releasing final versions of some of its other Live services. (If you missed all the Microsoft...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT HAS, Microsoft Windows Live; Blog posts 2006-10-09
Microsoft making gains in education market: Microsoft has zeroed in on education and is banking on a big pay-off in the long term, reports the Associated Press. Even as the Bill and Melida Gates Foundation's giving to education is in the news, Microsoft has pulled away from its competitors in funding research centers, donating products...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., education; Blog posts 2006-06-29
MS anti-piracy tools phone home, raising consent, disclosure and security questions: MS anti-piracy tools phone home, raising consent, disclosure and security questionsGood thing.....I use Linux.Aren't you Windows people tired of all of the abuse yet?http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.orgIntrusion is the QuestionI am not surprised that the O/S has been modified to report back daily...but frankly, what doesn't sound logical or rational is this:If Microsoft...; Tags: Government, PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, Operating systems, tool, intrusion, Microsoft Corp., O/S, MICROSOFT HAS, security, phone; Discussion threads 2006-06-08
Microsoft posts EU response online: Microsoft has posted its response to the EU's charges PDF that it failed to comply with an antitrust directive, AP reports. Companies usually keep their defense secret, but Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said the company released the non-confidential version of the report out of concerns the...; Tags: compliance, MICROSOFT HAS, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2006-02-24
Internet Explorer 7 beta 2: Almost one year to the day that Bill Gates announced Internet Explorer 7 for XP SP2 at RSA 2005, Microsoft has released a second public beta for the new-and-improved Internet browser. Hoping to stop the increasing tide of disgruntled surfers switching to Mozilla Firefox and Opera 8, Microsoft has mirrored...; Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, RSS, MICROSOFT HAS, beta; Product reviews 2006-01-31
Microsoft and Yahoo!: An unlikely story: Mary Jo Foley over at MicrosoftWatch reports on the ongoing rumors that Microsoft has made a play for Yahoo!, offering $80 billion for the portal and receiving a prompt rejection.This deal, if it is even real, would be reactionary and dumb on Microsoft's part. It would be overpaying to get...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., MICROSOFT HAS; Blog posts 2006-01-04
The incumbent's conundrum: Clayton Christensen's book The Innovator's Dilemma explains in detail why established market leaders get caught out by disruptive innovations. What you might call the incumbent's conundrum is knowing when to flip from supporting your existing successful products to investing in the technologies that will one day make them obsolete. ...; Tags: Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2005-11-09
MS to EU: Trust us, we've never seen a loophole we liked: MS to EU: Trust us, we've never seen a loophole we likedFree but closed.Microsoft has agreed to provide some information free of royalties, but will not allow any software using that information to be issued without royalties. Presumably, this is because the software using Microsoft's information would define Microsoft's...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, Court Case, MICROSOFT HAS; Discussion threads 2005-06-13
Microsoft delivers new patching tools: Microsoft delivers new patching toolsNEVERENDING!I especially like this line:"Microsoft has blamed the delays in part on work it had to do on Windows XP Service Pack 2" (soon to be XP-SP3?)NOT AGAIN!!!! Just what I needed .... a new 90meg XP patch .... jeez!... and now they are creating an...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Patches, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, patching tool, MICROSOFT HAS; Discussion threads 2005-06-07