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Take two: Microsoft says business licensees to get Windows 7 bits on September 1

Take two: Microsoft says business licensees to get Windows 7 bits on September 1Nahh..."What?s your take? Will many business users be among the early adopters of Windows 7?" Business's are usually the last ones to upgrade, they have alot of testing to do, then beta testing with some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, business licensee, Microsoft says business licensee, Microsoft Windows Vista, Take-Two, MICROSOFT SAYS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

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Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?

Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?What did MS do wrong?They are not bound by the GPL. They are free to license their technology to anyone they want, under terms agreeable to both. (I assume there might be some Federal restrictions there, but I don't think we crossed that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MS Just, FAT32, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Sue, GPL, MSFT, software

Discussion threads 2009-03-07

News to know: HP; Apple patches; Microsoft; Social networking

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration Larry Dignan: IBM targets HP's server beachhead HP vs. IBM: The looming IT...

Tags: Security, Facebook, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Shuttleworth, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS X, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Internet, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3

Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3Because GPLv3 is a legal document...... and not many technical people, like myself, are very legal one has to rely on what lawyers think (!).I find it difficult to believe that MS has not considered the impact of the GPLv3, but then again it...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Do you trust the Microsoft open source platform?

Do you trust the Microsoft open source platform?so you are the moral authoritySo you are the moral authority that gets to decide what tools, OS a company can use in its open source products. Do you have any credentials on being this moral authority or are you a self proclaimed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?

Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?It's called lock-inand it happens over and over and over and over again. Tech vendors want control of the profits. What I don't get is why the customers don't say, "Look, go out and...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., MaybePlays, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Microsoft's PlaysForSure partners in denial?

Last week, just before signing of on Friday, I pointed to the news that Microsoft had confirmed it's intentions to launch it's own portable media playback device. At that time, there were already a few reports on the Web including the original newsbreaker on Billboard Magazine but no...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PlaysForSure

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike

As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...

Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment

Blog posts 2006-05-23

DRM to join death and taxes. Will Sun's DReaM spare us the nightmare?

While I was on vacation last week, I noticed that Cory Doctorow issued a scathing review of Sun's Project DReaM in response to my podcast interview of Sun Labs director of engineering Tom Jacobs who heads up development of DReaM. Under the auspices of an organization called the Open...

Tags: Dream, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-04-24

MS-Office schema not as open source friendly as Microsoft says it is

When Alan Yates, Microsoft Information Worker Product Management Group business strategy general manager, first came to me to say that his company had been railroaded when Massachusetts voted the OpenDocument office file format ODF in, and Microsoft's Office XML Reference Schema OXRS out, one of his original arguments was that...

Tags: patent, open source

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Computer Associates, others sign SCO licenses

Computer Associates, others sign SCO licensesCA can't hideI held up all pending CA purchases indefinitely. Doesn't amount to much. Probably a token effort, but it sure feels good.Interesting that Canopy and Center 7 were already suing them over something else. Apparently Canopy only knows one business.It's time to put...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Computer Associates International Inc., SCO Group Inc., Mark Barrenechea, Dane-geld, Linux

Discussion threads 2004-03-04

Spotty display riles some PowerBook buyers

Spotty display riles some PowerBook buyersM$ is spreading FUD againThere is nothing wrong with the displays!It's only M$ desperatly bribing Mac users.It's not just AppleI just sent 6 IBM ThinkPad's to IBM for the exact same problem. White 'clouds' on the screen.Hey, Apple's just "thinking Differently"...Spotty Displays? You don't...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, 64-bit, Apple Mac OS X, AMD Athlon 64, Apple PowerBook, Apple Inc., display, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-10-31