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- Standards, antitrust and Microsoft
- Standards, antitrust and MicrosoftMS Documentation has been poor or incomplete"Microsoft provides all the information necessary for outside developers(! developers!! developers!!!) to make their products."Simply not true. Significant portions have not been documented, including APIs used by MS for some of their software products. Actually spawned a "Undocumented Win32" industry.Even when...
- Tags: Quality, Corporate law, HTML, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., API, antitrust, MS Documentation
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
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- Groklaw suggests Microsoft sue, do over authentication
- Are you in any way trying to legitimize patent trolling?You are well aware that what Microsoft is doing is what we all used to call patent trolling aren't you?My guess...Nothing will happen... this is just MS trying to protect UAC and runas from paten lawsuits.Besides MS would be idiot... well...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, authentication, Groklaw, patent, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- dbscript 0.99 (Windows)
- dbscript operates on database schema information imported from an MS SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL database, or uploaded via SQL files containing Create statements, organizing the schema information in Project Versions. Based on this data, users can define Value Scripts, compare schemas, and generate schema documentation as MediaWiki and ScrewTurn...
- Tags: IT Services, SQL, Microsoft Windows, Database Schema, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Dbscript, C#, Programming Languages, Wiki, .Net, Databases, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
- Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?
- Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...
- Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- OneClickHelp 1.5 (Windows)
- OneClickHelp offers the elegant approach for creation of help materials. You create as usual the document in MS Word and for one click receive Chm/Aspx/HtmlHxS/ files with structure and formatting as in your document. If you have time you can add additional elements ? the navigation, the fixed header and...
- Tags: Document, Helpsoft, OneClickHelp, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- The chief value of open source
- Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...
- Tags: open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces
- 3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Groupware, E-mail providers, e-mail, Microsoft Windows, Windows Mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- ActivePresenter 2.0 (Windows)
- ActivePresenter is a screen capture and presentation creation tool designed for simple screencasting, eTraining and eLearning. With blazing fast smart screen capture technology and a powerful authoring environment, ActivePresenter includes all the tools needed to record a presentation and easily convert the output to video (AVI, WMV, MPEG4/MP4, Flash), HTML,...
- Tags: Screen Capture, Microsoft Windows, Video, Microsoft Corp., Presentation, BinaryNow, ActivePresenter, AJAX, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
- M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Zune HD games, sponsored by the Kia Soul
- ho humI must say im unimpressed. I was hoping they would have been more on. thats the problem with the OS setup also, no good preinstalled apps. They need to step it up if they want any consideration and I havent looked at pricing but I hope they dont think...
- Tags: Games, game, Kia Motors Corp., Microsoft Zune, Zune HD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- (Microsoft trains Best Buy Linux assassins)
- despair?Are MS in despair?..Linux has better hardware support than windows.They forgot wine too. This disgusts me. The day Gates comes near me and holds out his hand expecting me to shake it is the day I rip it off.Keep in mindThat the users that these best buy employees will be...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Best Buy Co. Inc., wine, Microsoft Corp., Best Buy Linux, Best Buy Linux assassin, assassin
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Office 2010: What Microsoft will and won't say
- I've got a question..Maybe you can pass it along, but how long until we know the color themes available in Office 2010? The CTP only has 1 color, although it hints at others.Office 2007's color themes weren't set in stone until RTM, the Beta themes were drastically different than the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2010, ribbon, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- DBConvert for Excel & MS SQL 1.0.0 (Windows)
- DBConvert for Excel & MS SQL is a reliable bi-directional database migration tool which allows you to convert data between MS SQL database and MS Excel. You can convert your entire .xml file to MS SQL or select definite ranges of data from MS Excel spreadsheet to create as many...
- Tags: SQL, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., SQL Database, DMSoft Technologies, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-08-27
- Word ban threatens industry? Not mine
- Case in TexasIs an example of idiotic patent litigation. The case shouldn't even exist.-MChris, you need to get out of your bubble moreIt is very likely that the patent in question is also violated in other office suites that use XML.The issue isn't whether you can smugly say that you...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Juggernaut, Microsoft Corp., XML, I4i, patent, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
- Sweet...Zoom Zoom!RE: Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?I'd prefer that Microsoft do its own thing rather than work with SAMBA considering the actions of some members of that team.I agree...because interoperability and competition is a bad thing for the market. Btw, what actions of what members?The...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Microsoft Windows, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Common Internet File System, Loverock, Jeremy, small and medium business
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
- One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation. A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting company are working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS protocol documentation. ...
- Tags: Common Internet File System, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- I4i says not out to destroy Microsoft Word
- "but we think it the verdict is fair"Well yeah, the winner usually does.RE: I4i says not out to destroy Microsoft WordThis guy is a liar. Microsoft needs to appeal the ruling otherwise any office suite may be in jeopardy. Not only that but i4i just immediately gave itself...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., patent, I4i, XML
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
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