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Weigh In On the OOXML Issue During Live Debate
Wow a live debate going on at 10:00 AM PST. (article from Slashdot.org) Weigh In On the OOXML Issue During Live Debate Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 05, @07:52AM from the better-than-daytime-television dept. lisah writes “Linux.com’s Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller will moderate a live debate today, Wednesday, December 5 at 1pm US EST (GMT -5),…
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Next Review: Windows Vista.
I will be reviewing Windows Vista either this week or next week.
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Google wins search share at expense of Yahoo, Microsoft
from PCWorld.ca: Google widened its lead over the competition by winning 58.5 percent of all U.S. searches last month, up 1.5 percentage points over September. Yahoo took second place with 22.9 percent of the search market, down from 23.7 percent, while third ranked Microsoft dropped to 9.7 percent from 10.3 percent. Ask Network remained steady…
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2007/10/22 Internet Archive Challenges Google
Is this really a good idea? article from http://slashdot.org Internet Archive Challenges Google Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 22, @09:52AM from the pistols-at-dawn dept. richards1052 writes “The Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet’s web history, has created a new project: the Open Content Alliance.…
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2007/10/15 Linux: Michael Dell says Linux Server Sales are Up
From Slashdot.org, Michael Dell says Linux Server Sales are UP! That is good for the Linux Community and for Dell. Linux: Michael Dell says Linux Server Sales are Up Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 15, @09:31AM from the nobody-wants-vista dept. 00_NOP writes “Linux is growing faster in the server space than Windows says the…
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2007/10/11 How Microsoft Inadvertantly Helps To Fund FOSS
Wow Thank you Microsoft! (article from http://slashdot.org ) Linux: How Microsoft Inadvertantly Helps To Fund FOSS Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 11, @11:16AM from the i-has-ur-monies-kthxbye dept. christian.einfeldt writes “The State of California sued Microsoft for anti-trust violations, and now the proceeds of the settlement of that case are being used to fund the…
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2007/10/09 Microsoft blogger accidentally leaks Office Mobile upgrade
Oh no! Just in from PCworld: Microsoft blogger accidentally leaks Office Mobile upgrade. Here is some of the article: A Microsoft Corp. employee on Thursday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn’t be available for another couple of weeks. The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left…
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2007/10/09 Linux: Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up
Oh No not this again….. Linux: Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 09, @08:31AM from the oh-good-more-smack-talk dept. An anonymous reader writes “Via Groklaw comes comments from Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer at a UK event, in which the company once again threatens Linux distributions that haven’t…
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2007/10/05 Linux: Open Invention Network Calls Out Microsoft
I like it when Linux goes and calls out Microsoft: Linux: Open Invention Network Calls Out Microsoft Posted by Zonk on Friday October 05, @11:23AM from the show-em-if-you-got-em dept. Stony Stevenson writes with news that the head of the Open Invention Network has summarily dismissed Microsoft’s claims that Linux violates a number of its patents.…
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2007/10/04 Microsoft’s Larry Osterman On Threat Modeling
Wow another Microsoft person that talks about threat modeling. Story from Slashdot.org IT: Microsoft’s Larry Osterman On Threat Modeling Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 01, @12:42PM from the they-threat-model-at-microsoft dept. Schneier has pointed out an excellent series of blog posts about threat modeling by Microsoft’s Larry Osterman. The series focuses on the PlaySound API…