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XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversation

XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversationAll this work on a deprecated OS?I thought Vista was the future? Active development to port XP, let's face it, a stable but very outdated OS onto the OLPC. At some point, MS will have to accept...

Tags: Operating systems, emerging market, Apple OS X, Windows/Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, software

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

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Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure

won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...

Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades now

I would betthat not nearly as many businesses will bite as MS wants, but that more businesses than usual will bite.RE: Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades nowAs with many we are still running XP on all of our machines and Server 2003 with no money in...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, standards, Acid3 Test, compliant browser, web standard, IE 8, GNU/Linux, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation

Thank You M.J.I just read this with extreme interest. Thank you for the post and sharing this information."My first thought..If you cannot beat them, join them"The power of Open SourceYears ago Bill Gates himself criticized Open Source and the GPL Gnu Public License. Yet, Microsoft has finally realized the...

Tags: software foundation, GPL, Microsoft Corp., open source, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Open source file-system vendor signs patent deal with Microsoft

All these patent deals that linux vendors are signing with Microsoft, there must be something that Microsoft has going for it. Poor TomTom, wasn't smart enough to do this and keep themselves out of trouble.RE: Open source file-system vendor signs patent deal with MicrosoftAnother one bites the dust! ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL, Tuxera, software, Linux, patent, patent deal

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Why hasn't Linux made it mainstream on the desktop?

A couple of weeks ago I asked the readers of this blog a question - What is it that makes the iPod so dominant? I got some really good responses from a number of readers, some of which gave me new insights into iPod ownership. Today I'm going...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux

Blog posts 2006-06-16