Microsoft is seeking clarity about its most recent fine. What's not clear about dollars and cents? The exchange rate?
Read more »Microsoft Appeals €899M Fine
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Microsoft U-turn to stop Linux dominating ultra low cost PCs
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Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabilities of this type of device, IDG News Service has learned.
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The Struggles of France's Three Strikes Law
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"As 2008 began, the international music industry was proudly predicting the dawning of a new age of co-operation between rightsholders, Internet companies and governments.
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Ballnux on HP Laptops: Fail
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When Hewlett-Packard first announced that it had made SLED 10 its choice for a low-cost laptops, we were not very surprised because of the solidarity there is between Microsoft and H-P (Dell raises some doubts too).
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Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting) (Corrected)
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There was clearly a transaction of money made by Microsoft in Norway, which passed it on to ISO.
Read more »Digital Rights Management (DRM): is it in its death throes?
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In this opening salvo, I will reprise the technical terms and history of DRM and thereafter I will try to keep you abreast of the issues for computer users in general and free software in particular. Hopefully, I will in fact be chronicling the death throws of DRM.
Read more »Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor?
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Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so. Keen observers of the tech industry might note that this is a bit of a rarity, but it’s something that I hope we’ll see more of from Microsoft.
Read more »Interoperability: First Benefit Microsoft
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The Microsoft Management Summit is making clearer the reasons behind the company's new emphasis on interoperability.
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Microsoft Trojan Horse Part Duex
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After reading a recent press release about System Center Operations Manager 2007 being able to “manage Unix/Linux”, the first thought that goes through my head is WTF? Who in their right mind would touch that product?
Read more »Microsoft Plays Unfairly on The World Wide Web Again
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What?!?! Using Windows Vapourware™ (7) as an anti-competitive tool against next-generation threats such as Google? Microsoft got plans!
Read more »The Biggest Windows XP Myth of All
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Do you love going to the dentist to get a filling — if it means you don’t have to get root canal? In this case, XP is the filling you learn to live with because you don’t want all the deeper pain associated with Vista migrations. But that doesn’t mean you love XP.
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Microsoft arguments against Linux are bollocks
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Microsoft PR threw down the gauntlet; “see how Windows Server 2008 stacks up versus Linux,” they say. There’s a “Get the Facts” URL being promoted with claims of direct comparisons between the two operating systems. Anyone reading the headlines alone could be fooled into thinking there’s substance to be found.
Read more »In Microsoft Speak, “Open” Means No GNU/Linux or FOSS Support
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Both Microsoft and Novell can be accused of harming perceptions of “Open Source”. Novell seeks justification by clarifying that it really is a mixed-source company, whereas Microsoft shoves the word “open” everywhere it deems possible.
Read more »What Ever Happened to the Boycott Microsoft Web Site?
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As you may or may not know, the official Boycott Microsoft Web site has been inactive for about 10 years. In the week to come we will present some of its old yet invaluable findings. We ought to share them in order to demonstrate how little the company has changed since the more brutal antitrust era (before change in administration, which has turned a blind eye to bad behavior since).
Read more »Microsoft and free software? I don't think so...
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Microsoft turn to free software? That’ll be the day. Some have suggested that Microsoft might embrace free software and thus resolve the present conflict. That actually would be a terrific strategy for them, but I don’t think that Microsoft is smart enough to do it.
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