After a few seconds, the questions start. Questions that should be easy to answer, but turn out not to be! Where is my start button? Where are my programs? What happened to the Menu in Internet Explorer? Why is the system constantly asking for my permission to do simple things? Why does my system take so long to boot?
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MS and OSS: BFFs? More Like 'Frenemies'
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: or how the leopard can't change his spots.
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Quick Mention: Novell Takes Cash, Forgives Microsoft for Abuses
Novell has announced an agreement with Microsoft to settle potential antitrust litigation related to Novell’s NetWare operating system in exchange for $536 million in cash.
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Microsoft vows cluster OS upgrade will include Linux nod
SC07 Microsoft's charge into the high performance computing game continues at pace. The software maker this week announced that its new cluster operating system - HPC Server 2008 - based on Windows Server 2008 will ship next Summer. In addition, the code dandy has fired up a Parallel Computing Initiative to develop more parallelized software for both HPC and business users.
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Microsoft launches OOXML drive in Philippines
Microsoft and industry body the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed up to drive the adoption of Office Open XML in the Philippines.
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Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?
Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft’s Bill Hilf (right), now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was “revealing” the company’s open source strategy.
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Cox Also Disrupting P2P Traffic - Using the same forged packet method as Comcast -
"Cox users in our forums have been complaining about peer to peer performance being less than optimal. In particular, they've been noting that their upstream p2p throughput has been "weak and random," though so far this has only been showing up in certain markets.
Read more »Europe faults Apple for 'anticompetitive' iPhone deals
Apple's iPhone marketing has been a smash success at home, but it is running into stumbling blocks in Europe, where the touch-screen handset and music player is making its debut this month. At issue are national laws that bar companies from "tying" products so that consumers have to buy one to get the other.
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France is about to filter internet
" France is about to filter internet content according to music and cinema majors’ request. We strongly oppose to the filtering of Internet content, either when the majors ask it, or when the european commissioner Frattini does. French government asked the CEO of FNAC, France biggest CD and DVD retail chain owned by the PPR* Group, to propose repressive measures against P2P file-sharing..."
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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
Okay, so it's not really free software news, but it's pretty funny anyway...
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Microsoft's open-source rhetoric remains dangerously inconsistent
In a recent interview, Microsoft's Bill Hilf talked about the company's strategy for using and competing with open-source software.
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The Microsoft fact in Illinois
Microsoft, like most IT suppliers, tracks its successes and makes summary information about at least some of them available on its promotional web site.
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More on Illinois
One of the interesting omissions from the Microsoft case study cited yesterday is any support for the claim that the Wintel decision will save the state $10.5 million over five years.
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Intel Classmate - Are they happy? No.
"Jabi Lake Secondary School, on the outskirts of Abuja in Nigeria, is the poster child for a project set up by chip-maker Intel aimed at bridging the digital divide."
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Why Microsoft Rattles The Patent Saber - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
It must be maddening to believe you command developer loyalties and lead legions worldwide, then watch developers flock to the Linux kernel. Maddening, that is, if you're Microsoft.
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