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The Vista license "loophole" that isn't

Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that's no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down. I'm talking about the fuss that Scott Dunn and Brian Livingston kicked up in yesterday's version of the Windows Secrets newsletter, in...

Tags: License Agreement, Clean Install, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Scott Dunn, Nothing, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-04

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Zimbra adds offline access, instant messaging

Zimbra adds offline access, instant messagingI run Zimbra 5.0.2 open source...edition on top of SuSE 10.2. It is one of the highest quality open source program that I've used. A lot of OSS programs lack the sophistication you find in proprietary offerings. But Zimbra doesn't have those shortcomings.You maybe...

Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, IM, hardware requirement, Zimbra, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

Microsoft Stealth Update and Windows XP repair don't mix

Remember that Stealth Update I talked about a couple of weeks ago?  The one that Microsoft sent down the pipes to XP and Vista users and installed it irrespective of whether the user had given consent for updates to be installed?  Remember too how the apologists claimed that there was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows XP, Update, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Confirmed: Microsoft is fiddling with system files without permission

Breaking news - Latest from Microsoft [Updated: Sept 13, 2007 @ 6.50 am - After checking a system set not to automatically update I can confirm that this stealth update is real.] If this turns out to be true, it has some very serious and disturbing implications:...

Tags: Permission, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-09-12

How to get sued by Microsoft

Shopping at SurplusComputers.com is like poking around an especially geeky Goodwill store, Most of the goods are surplus for a reason, but occasionally youll find a particularly useful bit of hardware or software whose market has crested, making it a great bargain. Ive been receiving the companys Deals of the...

Tags: Microsoft, Licensing

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Technology that gives us the creeps

Technology that gives us the creepsYes, PlaysForSure sure doesn't.Or maybe it's the Windows Media Player. Anyway, WMP won't synch my duly bought and licensed WMA songs to my Rio Carbon, because it says "a problem has occurred in obtaining the device's certificate." The songs play in WMP on...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, MPAA, RIAA, WMP, Apple iPod, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-10-26

Report: Former HP chair to be indicted

Report: Former HP chair to be indictedIf it went as high as PattyThen how could Hurd have not known what was going on? If he gave approval for some of the methods used by investigators how could he not have known about the 'pre-texting'? It is good that...

Tags: Corporate governance, Vertical industries, Benefits, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

News Focus: HP's leak probe

News Focus: HP's leak probeA very good reason to never buy HP products again!Forcing the only honest, ethical person on the HP board out - for doing her job - is an insult to everyone. In protest, my company will never again purchase another HP product and we have spent...

Tags: Corporate governance, pretexting, Hewlett-Packard Co., pretext

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Dunn is done (as HP's chairwoman) but stays on Board

News.com’s Scott Ard and Ina Fried: Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn, who launched an investigation into a media leaks that resulted in a firestorm of controversy, has agreed to resign her post following a meeting of the company's board of directors….The board has appointed CEO and President Mark...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Patricia Dunn

Blog posts 2006-09-12

What's left for RSS to disrupt? Plenty

Updated 5/20/05: Steve Gillmor is back on "the air" again. Under the name the "Gillmor Daily," Gillmor's new regular gig featured Dave Winer (credited with the birth or rebirth of the XML-RPC, RSS, podcasting, and OPML) for the first show and based on what is said near the...

Tags: Winer, RSS

Blog posts 2005-05-20