I open up the virtual newspaper this morning, and what should be printed on the front web page but a link to an article that proclaims "US Department of Justice and five States have declared themselves satisfied with the antitrust enforcement efforts taken against Microsoft." The article, from CBRonline, goes on to quote the following reasons why the DoJ feels that competition is increasing...
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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WGA - chained to the oar of a sinking ship (cartoon)
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A funny cartoon about the WGA servers going down and causing XP and Vista users to be treated as pirates.
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Entire city of Vista users can't access the internet
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PEOPLE in the city of Lund in Sweden that use the Microsoft Vista OS can't connect to the Internet. Apparently the reason is because Lund is a Linux city which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista.
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Microsoft forced partners to vote Yes!
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Vote Yes to OOXML and we'll make sure that you get extra marketing money for you campaigns; this is Microsoft's Sweden's own words when they rounded up their Gold Partners in Sweden. Klas Hammar, Microsoft Sweden now regrets the formulation and regrets that the e-mail was sent out.
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Why Microsoft fears open source more than other proprietary vendors do
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A thought hit me this morning while I was reading through Microsoft's latest garbage-fodder (also known as "research") on OOXML and Sharepoint. Here is the world's largest software company taking potshots at open source, which maybe affects 0.001% of its revenues today. If that.
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WGA Meltdown Casts Doubt on Microsoft Reliability
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"After servers that authenticate Windows XP and Vista go down for 19 hours, analysts question the reliability of Microsoft's services."
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Microsoft pulls tricks to produce Swedish support for the standardisation of its Office format
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" 28 August 2007: about 20 Microsoft partners appeared in the final minutes of yesterday's working meeting at SIS (Swedish Standards Institute) and pushed through a majority for a SIS approval of Microsoft's new OOXML file format as an ISO standard."
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A Lot of SUSE Developers Left Because of Microsoft/Novell Deal
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Microsoft WGA servers down; XP and Vista installs marked as counterfeit
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DRM bites again: the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage servers (which every XP and Vista install phones home to) all failed sometime earlier today. The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in.
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Correcting false statements by Microsoft
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I think it is important to correct the false - or maybe misquoted - statements by Vijay Kapoor, national technology officer of Microsoft India that I found in this interview under the question "Why does Microsoft want another standard, what's the rationale?". Microsoft starts the reply with "There are at least 4 good reasons why:" and then states the first reason.
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Microsoft kills its ‘Get the Facts’ anti-Linux site
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It was a long time in coming. But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.
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Microsoft's Open Source Trashware
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I recently took a look at Microsoft's most active open-source projects and—there's no polite way to say this—they are all junk.
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Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
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Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
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Kudos WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com
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Why is it hard for people to understand that there is nothing called "Free Lunch"? Somebody was concerned, that adblock is ruining their revenue by blocking the ads (shown on the website). And at the same time, not providing the website owners, the ability to block adblock users.
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Fewer flaws FUD wars as Microsoft paints misleading picture of Linux security
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Microsoft security 'vulnerability scorecard' gives false impression of OS security, suggesting Windows is the most secure of all. Of course, start to look behind the pretty graphs and the ugly truth emerges that this is just more Microsoft FUD to try and derail the free software machine.
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