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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft cuts Windows Live Messenger access for users in five countries]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft cuts Windows Live Messenger access for users in five countriesWay to go Microsoft!!!So much for Obama's change with Cuba!Now Microsoft is joining the embargo!Liveside was quoting Messenger Support blog and now that Microsoft posting has been removed/edited. Check Liveside again for an updateKnowlege as to what is happening?It's Microsoft,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and Mom]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and MomWhy do we need a commercial...to prove what everybody has known for years, that Apple computers are rip-offs.Um, same name, different women...These are two different Laurens... And the Lauren in this add is not helping her mom, she's buying the laptop herself, for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft confirms 'InPrivate' IE 8]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft confirms 'InPrivate' IE 8thanks, RyanSounds some quite useful things coming, and appreciated hearing clearly about them.Regards,Narr ViRE: Microsoft confirms 'InPrivate' IE 8Since when was safe guardng Privacy an option? Geez, now its patented or trademarked idea!   How stupid can your new generation web users be!  NO...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sun to resell Windows as Linux, Solaris alternative]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun to resell Windows as Linux, Solaris alternativePerfect matchwondered when we'd see more from their agreement in 2004.(when Scott McNealy was heard to utter "we've grown up" in regards to why they were making a pact with Microsoft after his infamous anti ms past) funny thing though, about oo.org when...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another new Window Live buzzword is born]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another new Window Live buzzword is bornWould you please translate all this......into something I could care about?Microsoft needs a distortion field that gets them back to reality. They are WAY overboard into developer gobbledygook "cloud" stuff and not enough into things that really matter or even make sense to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we comeLOL![i]"With software plus services, Microsoft will be pointing its partners in a new direction"[/i]What would that direction be? Towards the exit perhaps? Or the scrapheap?So much for brand loyalty!Microsoft does not allow its "partners" to eat. It eats them..Mary Jo Foley...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"Study versus the real world ...Then I guess the actual savings that the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California obtained can't be true since this Microsoft sponsored study proves it false:http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htmlIn reality I would much rather have the savings by using OSS products diverted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple's plan to replace Vista with OS X - on Wintel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple's plan to replace Vista with OS X - on WintelIf those are a taste of OSX...I'll pass.[i]iTunes and now Safari are mainly ways of offering Windows users a taste of the MacOS interface.[/i]From a purely aesthetic point of view, these are ugly, [b]ugly[/b], [b]UGLY[/b] programs. I [b]certainly[/b] hope they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patentsFreakin' Lyin' Bast***s!Wow, after all the months of BS now about how open and closed source can work together - POW!!! RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES.  Gates & Co. are lucky Bush & Co. believe in monopoly, otherwise the comments of that federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 20:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious money]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious moneyXP may be my last stopI think that XP is as fat as I care to get on a pc, and this new EULA sort of puts the last rail down for me.If I buy a new computer with Vista on it, so be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:43:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sophos: Buncha crybabies (those other security firms bitching about Microsoft)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sophos: Buncha crybabies those other security firms bitching about MicrosoftSophos Product Are Coming of Age!Being the Enterprise Security Manager at an airline for some years, I evaluated Sophos and loved their product.  The only reason we did not select it was because Symantec was already in house and they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:56:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Second third-party fix out for Windows bug]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second third-party fix out for Windows bugWow, aren't you glad we have the village idiots at MS working on this!!They have all the source code, the best programmers on the planet, we know they will always be the first out with a patch, and all patches will be right the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Office upgrade hard to justify, warns analyst]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office upgrade hard to justify, warns analystSo those who signed the "s/w assurance" (right :-) ) planHOW DID THEY KNOW WHAT WOULD BE in the "future uprgades" to be able to determine if indeed the discounted prices BUY THEM SOMETHING of VALUE?``The software assurance plan ties companies into automatic upgrades...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:38:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's InfoCard draws open-source response]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's InfoCard draws open-source responseMicrosoft's InfoCard draws open-source responseMore linux companies playing follow the leader.  Either way don't you love competition?  Microsoft makes one product, then open source makes a competitor and let the best product win.InfoCard is just copying, but, we need to have something identifiable asan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:24:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[To grow, Borland to cut off its roots]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To grow, Borland to cut off its roots"No one pays for IDEs"?What about Visual Studio? Lots of people pay for that.J.JaIDEs vs. lifecycle management...The "noone pays for IDEs" statement is ridiculous as a factor in this decision.  Think about the implications.  Borland is going to ditch its IDEs,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:59:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to standardize Office formats]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft to standardize Office formatsAnother win for Open Source"Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy. "We look forward to the day when people look at this as a milestone, as the beginning of the end for closed documents.""And so do we in the Open world. Funny they bleated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gates: Microsoft ready to go 'live']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gates: Microsoft ready to go 'live'M$ and JAva are afraid of Ajax 2.0http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AJAX_2-0NOW We are TALKINGThis is the future of computing. Remote Access to any and all applications.The MS Zealots and MS have been poopooing this for years while the Open Source community primarily the PHP developers have been striving...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:25:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open source standards are the story of the year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open source standards are the story of the yearAltruismRegarding principal vs. principle:All things considered, I prefer counting on enlightened self-interest rather than altruism.  Most standards work depends on multiple players seeing it as in their advantage to grow the pie rather than the slice.That, in turn, depends on having...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A history lesson from Bill Joy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A history lesson from Bill JoyBill Joy = the BETTER BillBill Joy is totally correct in that quote. But transferring the monopoly probably SAVED IBM - since their own anti-trust case fizzled out soon after. IBM did the RIGHT thing and learned from its mistakes. Duh!"Personally I expect Linux on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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