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The Great Microsoft OOXML Stuffing of ISO

http://fanaticattack.com

This three-part summary on Microsoft's push for OOXML as an ISO. Its starts from the development of ODF at OASIS to the current gridlock at ISO due to the large influx of new members. Industry Motive: To preserve a monopoly and the fight to protect a four-billion-dollar per year cash cow against those who stand for open standards, against those who want to create even playing fields, fair competition, innovation and open access for everyone to benefit.

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BREAKING: Microsoft Removes Free Vista Offer (But Forgets To Put It On Their Site)

http://onlineapps.newsvine.com

XP's been acting up lately. So when I read on Engadget that Microsoft is giving away a free copy of Vista Ultimate, I immediately signed up. But as I was waiting for the client to download, I tried to find out more about getting my free copy. To my chargin, there was nothing on the Windows Feedback Program site. So I dug a little deeper. Still nothing. This seemed fishy.

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Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster

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"Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way..." -- via slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss

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Engineering Industry support for OOXML - Novell

http://www.noooxml.org

The Open XML support of "the industry" argument is weak and does not belong into technical discussions at this stage.

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Microsoft Pushes XP For One Laptop Per Child Project

http://www.digitaljournal.com

Microsoft wants to rule the world, even Third World countries where $100 laptops for children will soon be prevalent. In a move bound to spark controversy, Microsoft announced it wants Windows XP to be installed in the computers for the project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

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Blogger presses Gates for IE8 answers

http://www.infoworld.com

Developers chastise Microsoft for not keeping browser upgrade promises, for not supporting crucial Web standards, and for not keeping them in the loop

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MPAA calls for content filtering by all ISPs

http://arstechnica.com

"...Glickman is the self-described "chief hired gun or mercenary for the [motion picture] industry," and his comments give us a window into what the movie studios are thinking. His words yesterday revealed that movie execs are thinking about one thing in particular: the technology that can be used to halt film piracy. And they expect ISPs to implement it...'

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Music Industry Pressures EU Politicians for Filtered Internet

http://www.eff.org

"The music and film industry continues to pursue its idea of a politically "corrected" Internet - one that they imagine could protect their old business models without requiring any extra costs on their part. This time, the fix is Internet-wide filtering..."

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More on Microsoft's effort to put XP on XO

http://www.news.com

Microsoft is serious about getting Windows XP to work on One Laptop Per Child's low-cost laptop, but the company still isn't sure it will be able to make a go of it.

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Poor Performance At Top Of Users' Windows Vista Gripe List

http://www.informationweek.com

My recent post, "Top 5 Things Microsoft Must Fix In Windows Vista In 2008" prompted a slew of comments, consistent with the zeitgeist that the almost-year-old operating system continues to gain adherents on the consumer side, even if it's still spottily deployed in the corporate arena. Still, I have to say I was surprised by how many readers agreed with my main point, which is that Vista's performance ain't yet what it oughta be.

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Why Internet Explorer 8 Will Break the Web

http://www.glazman.org

"Don't ask what it's going to fix. Ask what it's going to break... And I'm not even kidding..."

Via the Standblog: http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/12/07/Towards-a-new-engine-for-IE8-b...

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Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?

http://community.zdnet.co.uk

We've noted the lack of fanfare around Vista's unhappy first birthday, but here's a sign of just how bad things are - online stores pay you to take it.

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Microsoft feeling heat from Linux in budget flash PC market

http://arstechnica.com

Microsoft announced plans today to expand support for Windows XP on budget flash-storage computing devices with an eye towards getting Windows XP running on the OLPC. The software giant will publish design guidelines next year that will make it possible for manufacturers of low-cost mobile devices to build hardware that provides optimal compatibility with Microsoft's legacy operating system. The company also announced plans for field trials next month that will put Windows XP to the test on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO laptop.

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Why the '$100 laptop' project is under siege

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com

The dream of cheap computers in the hands of millions of poor children is becoming a reality, though not exactly as its proponents imagined. For-profit competitors snatched the idea and have run with it.

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Mozilla scoffs at vulnerability study rating IE superior to Firefox

http://arstechnica.com

Jeffrey Jones, a researcher and the Security Strategy Director at Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, recently posted a report [in which] Jones came to the conclusion that, contrary to popular belief, Internet Explorer has experienced fewer security vulnerabilities than Firefox over the same periods of time.

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