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ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover...
The standards world continues to surprise us - this time with what has been described as a "coup". Those in charge of OOXML are, we are told, actually trying to take over the rival... More
Hundreds of IT jobs to go at Accenture...
Hundreds of jobs at Accenture UK, many of them from the consulting firm's Systems Integration and Technology (SI&T) unit, are likely to be cut in the wake of the downturn in the banking... More
Apple carves out a new case for manuac...
A wonderful rumour is circulating in the Applesphere, regarding a brick. The Apple Brick. The phrase itself has been around for a while, although nobody outside the company had any... More
Featured Talkback
Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?
By: J.A. Watson
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Annoying software: a rogues' gallery
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Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.
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Microsoft exec talks patent politics
Vista - Still Running and Stable After...
Six weeks ago, when I wrote Renewed Adventures with Vista, I wondered if Microsoft had finally managed to fix it sufficiently that I wouldn't be forced to give up on it after a few... More
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Check this out: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7...spx Its an official blog "Engineering Windows 7" Nothing. That's what is revealed. Until there is real... More
Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
It didn't seem fair to wade into Microsoft's “Mojave Experiment” advert quite so soon after the flat earth incident. But The Economist has no such qualms: in this week's issue, it wonders... More
