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Microsoft anti-piracy backfires
This Ars Tecnica article talks about the story, which is fairly well-known by now; Microsoft security people loaded incompetent code into their anti-piracy server (gratuitously named "(MS)Windows Genuine Advantage", when it clearly gives the ... |
3-Sep-2007 |
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Microsoft: Giant to Relic in under a decade?
My pal Lak recently resumed blogging and pointed to this piece on the 1999 verdict in U.S.A. v Microsoft. Back then Microsoft was the behemoth that crushed Netscape and nearly crushed Java, in the process diverting Java from the Applet to the Enterpris... |
18-Apr-2007 |
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M$ Vista: Mortgage Your Company To Run It
Microsoft Vista will be so expensive to buy and to run that you'll have to mortgage your company to use it. That's the implication of Microsoft's decision to enter the loan business in at least one Western country |
27-Jun-2006 |
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Cities turning away from Microsoft Monopoly
More and more city governments are realizing that they do not need to depend on the Microsoft monopoly; that free software does provide a viable and valuable alternative. |
26-Jul-2004 |
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US Patent Office Agrees to Hear PUBPAT FAT Challenge
On April 15 I reported that the Public Patent Foundation was challenging Microsoft's all-important FAT Filesystem Patent. Today the US PTO agreed that PubPat's challenge had enough merit to prompt a new hearing into whether the Patent in question shoul... |
10-Jun-2004 |
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Don't Trust Trusted Computing
The ironically-named fraud known as Trusted Computing (better known as "treacherous computing") continues to gain ground against the values of the civilized world. Please read up on TCPA. Read it and weep. Or rage. Choose whether 'tis noble... |
1-Dec-2003 |
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They got even with Microsoft
Here's an article on how a mid-sized manufacturing firm got manhandled by Microsoft lawyers, and got even by switching to open source. |
20-Aug-2003 |
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Microsoft Funds anti-open-source sites; here's an alternative
You probably know that Microsoft is funding a series of anti-open-source web sites such as ISC (the Institute for Software "Choice") and anti-open-source initiatives such as the SCO lawsuit against Linux and IBM. Here is Sincere Choice, a si... |
18-Jul-2003 |
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Microsoft USES Java
Microsoft makes a big deal out of claiming that there is no demand for Java applications. Yet the Redmond behemoth uses a Java-powered application to manage most of its MSN and other core sites! [Link was at "freeroller.net... |
17-Apr-2003 |
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Microsoft has a plan for you, one you may not like
Microsoft has a plan for you - one you may not like. This article covers many IT technologies for 2003, but if you are primarily interested in Microsoft's plans as they are already in motion, skip down (there's a link near the top). |
10-Mar-2003 |