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Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight (and Microsoft) to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?

Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight and Microsoft to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?Correction on ZuneThe main diffrence between Zune DRM and PlaysForSure is that Microsoft paid for the licenses needed for wireless use, as I recall from an interview with Mr. Ballmer. The same agreements were not available to...

Tags: Business structures, Penfield-Jackson, MS Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight (and Microsoft) to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?

By now, you cant have missed the news about how Microsoft has officially given the name "Silverlight" to its Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) platform. If the coverage you read didnt just report the news, it probably drew attention to the theoretical battle that looms between Microsoft and the incumbent Adobe...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-04-17

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Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warming

Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warmingThe best summary yet?Enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories??This is the best summary of the state of Global Warming theory I have yet read, and fits exactly what many of us have been...

Tags: global warming, unpopular stance

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Debate over Microsoft break-up idea devolves

Oy vey. In the event that you missed my post yesterday (see Penfield-Jacksons Revenge? For Silverlight to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up), I contemplated the idea that, in its own best interests, it might be better for Microsoft to consider breaking itself up (perhaps into an online company and...

Tags: Web technology, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-18

News to know: BlackBerry outage; Oracle patches; Intel's data centers; Vonage woe

Notable headlines:Russell Shaw: BlackBerry outage reports pile up on the three major BB forums. BULLETIN: massive BlackBerry email failures Tuesday night.Ryan Naraine: Oracle Patch Day: 37 flaws fixed. Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw.Larry Dignan: Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high. Techmeme discussion. Privacy concerns dog...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-18