A few links that I’ve had in my “mention in a blog post” category for a while:
I haven’t talked about Microsoft in quite a while (mainly because I don’t follow mainstream tech news as much anymore), but I happened by a very interesting post on the Windows Azure blog the other day. It’s a very detailed postmortem of the major outage of the …
more ...I just came by an interesting post on Slashdot, A Public Funded “Microsoft Shop?”. The author works at a publicly-funded hospital and comments that he received an email from management stating:
more ...Information Services is strategically a Microsoft shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy …
I read a very interesting article on Linux-Mag.com today. The gist of it is that Microsoft (as happily announced in a press release) has submitted 20,000 lines of code for inclusion into the kernel. Specifically, the code is comprised of a number of drivers that will enable Linux …
more ...To keep it short, I’m sure anyone who winds up here has already heard about the recent Microsoft lawsuit against TomTom, alleging patent infringement. Coverage has been extensive, including GrokLaw and Linux Magazine. While the mentioned patents include car navigation technology (at least the names of the patents seem …
more ...Internet Security
So, this semester I’m taking a class on Internet Security. Our textbook is Management of Internet Security, 2nd Edition by Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord. It seems pretty basic, and very much focused on the management side of things (as opposed to technical). The table …
more ...From PRNewsWire: Microsoft and Novell Deliver Joint Virtualization Solution Through Partners. The headline of the press release: “Supported by Dell and other channel partners, solution includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running as optimized guest on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.”
Now, maybe I’m not up on the news regarding my …
more ...Well, that’s it. Not only did Verizon and AT&T come out on top in the 700MHz spectrum auction - promising an end to hopes of Google’s utopian ideals of a truly open network - but I just heard that “Office Open XML” was approved as an ISO standard.
I …
more ...Yeah, I almost forgot to link right to thearticle from Reuters about the EU fining Microsoft $1.35 BILLION USD (899 million euros).
Microsoft’s monopolistic business practices are costing it billions of dollars.
IDEA:
Actually be open. Open up all of your protocols, specifications, APIs.
Even start opening …
Here’s another Groklaw article on recent Microsoft tribulations. This really is starting to get disgusting. It’s not that I hate Microsoft, I don’t. What I hate is their attitude, and their business practices. Everyone else - I mean everyone - makes software that interoperates with other vendors. Microsoft, even …
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