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- WordStar
- An earlier full-featured word processing program for CP/M and DOS from MicroPro International Corporation, later renamed WordStar International. Introduced in 1978 for the CP/M operating system, WordStar was the...
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- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Still ranting about interfaces
- Still ranting about interfaces[b]Mr. Murphy, You are such an idiot...[b]The real reason WordPerfect lost is simple.[b]WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get [/b]You are such a biased moron that you can't get your ego out of the way to see the truth. WordPerfect lost the battle because...
- Tags: Word processors, Corel WordPerfect, software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Microsoft confirms Word attacks
- Microsoft confirms Word attacksNo, in Jet>>Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in WordGrammatical issue aside, the vulnerability is in the Jet engine, not Word. Word is the vector.Vista is NOT vulnerable: yet another reason to use Vistayet another reason to use VistaRE: Microsoft confirms Word attacksThere is NO reason to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft confirms Word attack, Microsoft Confirms, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stackInteroperability works both ways.If you want to rip out that Linux server, the fact that it works with Microsoft products as Microsoft intends helps assure that you won't (what?) miss a beat by eliminating the foreign element.You have many Microsoft products already and...
- Tags: game, Microsoft Corp., real game, interoperability
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- OpenOffice still two trains running on one line.
- OpenOffice still two trains running on one line.Wrong!One reason so many hate M$ Office is that it is *bloated*. Hello? You are actually clamoring for OOo to throw in everything plus the kitchen sink? The real smarts is keeping it slimmer...M$ could take a lesson.Not necessaryIt's not...
- Tags: Microsoft Project, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenProj, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- (Photos: Vintage Computer Festival)
- (Photos: Vintage Computer Festival)Vintage ComputersWhatever happened to Tandy's Color Computer. I know more people who learned how to use a computer with the CoCo than any other machine.I still have one each of the first models.RE: (Photos: Vintage Computer Festival)Regarding the Canon Cat, I bought one and remember it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vintage Computer Festival, photograph, Adam Osborne, Apple Inc., computer, Canon Cat
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Unresponsive iPhone touch screens
- Unresponsive iPhone touch screensHow many more Apple hardware failures will we see...It isn't five minutes since the Mac battery recall, and already we are seeing the iPhone is now iPhailed.With Apple, are the users paying the extra premium for better quality products, or rather is it just Appletalk for shiny...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Desktops, Touch-Screen Technology, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., touch screen
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Rivals make run at Microsoft Office
- Rivals make run at Microsoft OfficeThere are a lot of things coming together at the same time to makealternatives more attractive. There is the push by governments to use open file formats, the drastically reduced need to actually PRINT documents, the increased need to share documents, and the increased quality...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Turnabout, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Projity OpenProj
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Insanity and the standards process
- Insanity and the standards processInteresting...Did they to your knowledge ever fix up the "man in the middle" flaw?Thanks Jeremey! Almost nobody saw the last minute MS dirty tricks comming,and hopefully, nobody will be fooled next February or whenever the last vote that would possibly allow OOXML be fast tracked.There have...
- Tags: Quality, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Corp., ECMA, OOXML, standards, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- MA finalizes inclusion of Microsoft format in open standards list
- MA finalizes inclusion of Microsoft format in open standards listAmazing what money can buyI would have liked to see MA stick to it's guns, but let's be honest here, who can fault them for the likely 90% off price they got on license costs for the next 5-15 years from...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., open standard
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- What will next-generation multicore apps look like?
- The move to multicore processing is well underway. But the creation of software that takes advantage of multicore capabilities is still little more than a twinkle in the eyes of developers -- including Microsoft's developers.Microsoft has started thinking through what apps might look like in five-plus years. And Craig Mundie,...
- Tags: Research, Healthcare, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Linux definitely has a place in education
- Linux definitely has a place in educationneeded softwareAs a new purchser of a Dell laptop with Ubuntu, I have found a major problem with Ubuntu that is also part of Linspire. These distributions support only WEP security for wireless connections.As ZDNET writers have written this is only secure for a...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, education
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- OpenTeams does a good job taking the icky out of wiki
- [[07MustangFuelLineRepair|How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line]]That's an example of what's called wiki markup. It takes the text "How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line" and links it to another page in a wiki called "07MustangFuelLineRepair". It's not pretty (and reminiscent of the codes we used to see in...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Is Yang right to run Yahoo?
- Is Yang right to run Yahoo?Never Been DoneOnce you've lost it, no matter how big it was, you can never get it back.From the dawn of computing when NCR fired some people who went onto create IBM, once momentum has been lost the "has been" never gets its crown back.Just...
- Tags: Yang, Apple Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- EasyPad (zip)
- EasyPas is a powerful FREE Text Editor, edit and search multi files, work with HTML code. EasyPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory. EasyPad has been implemented according to...
- Tags: File, EasyPad, EasyPas, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-06-07
- The genetic programming future
- The genetic programming futureBorders, schmordersWrong straw man, John. Ask the victims of the Unabomber or Timothy McVeigh -- or for that matter the residents of Baghdad today.The fundamental problem lies in the amount of power available to imperfect beings.Are you nuts........ the concept of treating DNA as a program...
- Tags: Biotechnology, genetic programming
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- 2MB Expansion Board (Cracking open the original personal LaserJet printer)
- 2MB Expansion Board Cracking open the original personal LaserJet printerNeat StuffI still have a Laserjet 6L I got over 10 years ago and I can relate to how much of a workhorse HP printers are...Sadly, They Don't Build Them Like That NowThey don't. Anyone who has worked in an...
- Tags: Printers, board, printer, HP IIP, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?
- Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?Time, place, and weaponsGraham is right on one thing: the fear factor is much less than it was.Overall, though, it's much like the blind men and the elephant: what you think depends on what part your hand is on. In Graham's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Evil Empire, Graham
- Discussion threads 2007-04-08
- Another nail in the coffin for xBase? Microsoft ends Foxpro's commercial run
- While Im glad to hear that Microsoft is turning portions of its codebase over to the open source community, the news thanks Slashdot from Microsoft that Foxpro has seen its last commercial version marks a sad day for me. Foxpro was to dBase what Excel was to Lotus 1-2-3. If...
- Tags: Desktops, Mainframes, Servers, Databases, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., dBase, PC
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
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