Pictured here is Microsoft's great new patent application on a portable touchscreen device's user interface, filed refiled within days of a certain cellphone going on sale. Look familiar? Well, my spite and disdain is all spent: we're at the point where such patent filings are neither good nor bad.
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MS Drops Antitrust Appeal
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Microsoft has dropped its appeal against the Korean Fair Trade Commission, complying with the antitrust regulator's 2006 instruction to pay a 32.4 billion won ($34 million) fine and to sell its Windows operating system and other software products separately.
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What's Wrong with Open-Source Software?
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Though the open-source movement isn't going to die anytime soon, it's looking a little ragged at the edges. And with the appearance of the onerous GPL v3 and the slow deterioration of the popular Firefox browser, I now wonder if open source may have been a fad, or perhaps just a more elaborate iteration of the shareware phenomenon in the 1980s.
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Microsoft mind reading
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"Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too. The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. "Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions," the company says.
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Mainstream media favors price at expense of freedom, fairness
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"The New York Times’ review of Dell machines featuring the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution is a recent illustration of the problems one faces confusing price and freedom, then deciding that freedom (the more important of the two) isn’t worth talking about..."
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Free Burma: Military attempts to seize UN hard drives and data
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"...Firewall logs and network captures are being used to find and arrest dissidents. It's not hypothetical, it's not paranoid, it's real... and happening with the technology we've all been building..."
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MS admits: Linux biggest threat to Winblows
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Microsoft admits: Linux biggest threat to WinblowsHere we have it! Finally Microsoft admits that Linux is the biggest threat to its Windows operating system! Well, almost…just not that directly.
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CIOs to Microsoft: Forget 'get legal' program, cut our license pain instead
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Microsoft Corp. may be trying to make it easier for delinquent corporate customers to "true up" their volume license contracts. But CIOs who have tangled with Microsoft on licensing issues said this latest program does little to tackle the real issue: the difficulty, short of buying Microsoft's most expensive class of license, of staying compliant.
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Ubuntu Users Looking For Linux Chicks
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Warning: only click through if you want to red the lastest FUD by (dis)InformationWeek's Alexander Wolfe.
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Microsoft’s open source chief takes on Windows server marketing
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The leader of Microsoft’s integration efforts around open source software and its proprietary technologies is expanding his role by adding the title "general manager of Windows server marketing," further indication that Microsoft plans to crank up the volume on its Windows/Linux story.
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Is Transgaming Dumping Linux In Favor Of Apple?
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Almost two weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment pushed through a required World of Warcraft patch that made the game unplayable for many Linux users, reducing frame rates to unacceptable levels, causing distorted sound, and making the OpenGL graphics engine more difficult to switch to. Considering TransGaming's history of rapidly addressing WoW patch issues, this is unusual behavior.
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Woman fined $US220,000 for sharing 24 songs
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au –
Some shadowy ring of Ip-criminals ripping off the industry for millions of dollars? No, just a poor, single mother of three, who shared a few songs on the internet. How will the soulless, greedy industry operatives benefit? More high-grade nose-candy, and new Porsches for all.
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Why the OS of the future still can't get any appreciation on the desktop
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Many people now believe that Linux represents a viable alternative. Today, with mainstream hardware vendors like Dell offering Linux installations and some folks thinking a major shift is about to happen, it's time to take another look at Linux on the desktop.
Read more »Office May Be Microsoft's Next Antitrust Battlefield
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My take from the cheap seats: Keep an eye on the Windows fight if you like, but the Office game is where you'll be seeing the most action. Players are already trash-talking about office document formats. IBM is rolling out a free Office competitor called Symphony and it's lining up a formal match.
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open.NET? Microsoft To Make .NET Libraries Available Under "Open Source"
http://www.whurley.com –
One minute ago Microsoft made one of its first "open source" moves under the new Microsoft Reference License: the team in Redmond announced they'll make some .NET libraries available. I say "open source" because to me, open source means you can easily access a .tar or .zip of the code. Microsoft's effort is a bit more cumbersome.
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