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- Microsoft foes lukewarm on Windows licensing
- Microsoft foes lukewarm on Windows licensingQuestions and answers - EU Memo[b]Questions and answers – Order of the President of the Court of First Instance in case T-201/04 R, Microsoft Corp. vs European Commission, 22.12.04[/b]http://tinyurl.com/4lqszFunnySun...now partnered with MSNovell...more interested in WordPerfectCA...not interestedIBM...no commentSamba...licensing too restrictive for GPLRed Hat...not interestedMandrakesoft...emphatically NOT INTERESTEDSo...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Monti, Microsoft Windows, foe
- Discussion threads 2004-12-22
- Upgrades, staffing costs squeeze British IT budgets
- Upgrades, staffing costs squeeze British IT budgetsEven in lean times Linux on the desk top is a no go.That is not so much a negative against open source, rather that as the article said, they (Linux/Open Source) need to get up to speed and raise their game, by quite a...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, finance sector, Linux, Monti, staffing
- Discussion threads 2004-09-28
- Microsoft ready to comply with EU orders
- Microsoft ready to comply with EU orderssettlement"said Monday he remains hopeful the software giant's European antitrust case can be settled."it would really hurt us if they offered the same type of settlement the usa did...snicker snicker, plaase brair rabbit, don't send me into the briare patchit is BUNDELD with the...
- Tags: Litigation, Operating systems, MICROSOFT JUST, Microsoft Corp., Monti
- Discussion threads 2004-09-27
- EU will probe Microsoft, Time Warner buy
- EU will probe Microsoft, Time Warner buyEU will probe Microsoft, Time Warner buyI thought AOL bought Time Warner and lost money so they dropped them. Now Microsoft wants to do the same thing?PROBE PROBE PROBE PROBEExpose Microsoft for the evil dominating company it is!When all the world is running...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Piracy, Digital media, Now Microsoft, Monti, Microsoft Corp., Time Warner Inc., Monti Boy, security
- Discussion threads 2004-08-25
- Microsoft's EU court date set for September
- Microsoft's EU court date set for Septemberre: microsoft vs. eusummarizing this topic:microsoft: halt sanctions until end of caseeu: dont do thatzdnet posters: blah blah blah microsoft sucks! blah blah blah evil blah blah blah buy linux blah blah blah no_axe says microsoft rules blah blah blah loverock says buy bsd...
- Tags: UNIX, security guard, Microsoft Corp., Monti
- Discussion threads 2004-07-27
- Microsoft to meet with top EU judge
- Microsoft to meet with top EU judge"Software Behemoth" Is A Little Over The Tophttp://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Behemoth&x=14&y=8One entry found for behemoth.Main Entry: be·he·moth 1 often capitalized : a mighty animal described in Job 40:15-24 as an example of the power of God2 : something of monstrous size or power 3 :...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Very Interesting, Microsoft Corp., merger, Mario Monti, Monti, European Commission, commission
- Discussion threads 2004-07-06
- EU suspends Microsoft sanctions
- EU suspends Microsoft sanctionsMicrosoft bigger than European StatesJanuary 14thEuropean Commission decides to sue the 15 member states of the European Union for voting to suspend rules that would have forced France and Germany to make deep budget cuts to bring their deficits within lawful limits.June 27thFaced with total flat non...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital video, integration, Microsoft Corp., Monti, Microsoft Windows Media Player
- Discussion threads 2004-06-27
- Microsoft plans to block EU ruling
- Microsoft plans to block EU rulingCome on quit stalling1 - Pay the fine2 - Play fair with others3 - Play by the same standards as the rest of the world4 - Price fairly5 - Fix your cruftware6 - Accept the fact people are tired of your crapHow hard is that?This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Quality, Digital media, Digital music, Monti, Microsoft Corp., standards
- Discussion threads 2004-06-24
- Europe's 'insult' to the Internet
- Europe's 'insult' to the InternetThey haven't figured it out.The Europeans haven't figured it out and it seems they never will.A nation cannot be prosperous without freedom. This includes freedom from taxation. With all of the examples of the results from differing government systems one would think it was obvious by...
- Tags: Government, Regulations, regulation, Internet, Monti, bureaucrat, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-06-21
- EU's Monti stands behind Microsoft fine
- EU's Monti stands behind Microsoft fineStatoil and Norsk Hydro, which faced fines of $3bn and $2bn respectively.EU don't like anti competive behaviorhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2134674.stmThe U.S. judicial system simply doesn't work !No reason to blame the EU for the shortcomings of the U.S. judicial system. We should be ashamed to let bullies like...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Strategy, IT Personnel, Monti Boy, Microsoft Corp., Monti
- Discussion threads 2004-04-16
- The full Monti
- The full Montithe good montiwho is fooling who??as http://www.litepc.com shows (I'm running W98SE-lite for more than 5 years now), the OS can work without IE, Outlook or whatever. so, they are extra's on top of the OS!!letting them be incorporated into the OS is bad news and bad business for...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Monti
- Discussion threads 2004-03-24
Additional Resources
- The IBM buys Sun Story
- The IBM buys Sun StoryTruthIf Sun get "owned" by IBM than they brought it onthemselves. They let SPARC performance lag for yearsand did not listen to their customers. If they hadembraced open source and x86 earlier (circa 2000/1)than they would have turned the tide but there was alot of residual...
- Tags: Corporate law, Investment, Servers, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., antitrust, stock
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
- Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009What I see is another executive whodoesn't get the fact that sometimes you simply have to accept a situation where there is no growth, but simply maintenance of market share.CEOs and their ilk need to learn that a balance must be struck...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Microsoft on the other end of the EC antitrust stick?
- Microsoft on the other end of the EC antitrust stick?I would not say that "But the timing is amusing"but rather more towards "not unexpected", and actually quite logical.It is about time. If every other competitor of Microsoft is going to run crying "Anti-Trust" to the EU every other week their...
- Tags: Network technology, IBM Corp., EC antitrust, T3, Neelie Kroes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby
- A member of Apple's security team has discovered multiple serious security vulnerabilities in Ruby, the popular open-source scripting language. According to an advisory on the Ruby project site, Apple's Drew Yao reported at least six of the vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to cause a denial-of-service condition...
- Tags: Team, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Ruby, Scripting Languages, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Chinese antitrust and Microsoft
- Chinese antitrust and MicrosoftTo the previous poster...Truer words have never been spoken posted this at the wrong levelIrony...Chinese Government is the biggest monopoly of all.RE: Chinese antitrust and Microsoftwhy would China care about the retail price of microsoft products in light of such cheery articles as these: "only 244...
- Tags: Corporate law, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., Chinese antitrust, antitrust, Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236
- Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236Missing point, JohnEspecially since this was all about documentation, you might have mentioned that forcing Microsoft to actually generate external documentation (instead of "the source [u]is[/u] the documentation") will also benefit the Company, however much it grated on the egos involved.Price charged for IP.For clarity,...
- Tags: Public relations, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...
- Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Google's antitrust throwdown
- Google's antitrust throwdownWell...I too am unconvinced that this takeover thing is good in any sense. Personally, I think where anti-trust is going to come in is not over search, but over the portal, IM and webmail dominance it'd give Microsoft. Mind you that presumes that the userbase for these services...
- Tags: Web browsers, Corporate law, INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Interesting JC, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Defense-in-depth starts with DNS
- Defense-in-depth starts with DNSDone and doneWe block out going DNS, we also have alerts and traps set up to detect if a something it attempting to do this, and we have domain name blocking as well.Now this practice isn't just good for DNS it's good for a lot of things....
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, DNS, Defense-in-Depth
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
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