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Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog The software giant said on Monday that Walmart, the supermarket giant, was migrating from RedHat Linux across to a combination of MS/Novell software. I'm getting cold feet about Microsoft's latest so-called Linux victory.
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog I'm waiting to hear back from MS's press office, and will report further details shortly. UPDATE: Microsoft Office's spokesperson has refused to comment on this one, due to commercial confidentiality issues with MS partners blah blah.
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
Windows XP & MS's techno driven 'progress'
Talkback MS has consistently forced over-specced/elaborate OS & other applications on to a docile, mainly accepting, marketplace using voguish excuses like technology driven progress, new generation technology - as if these were somehow inevitable forces...
[April 30, 2008, 10:07]
Microsoft to attack MP3 with MS Audio 4.0
News Microsoft could announce its MS Audio 4.0 technology as soon as its Windows Hardware Engineering conference in early April, according to sources. MS Audio 4.0 could potentially create music files that are about half the size of MP3 files and with...
[March 18, 1999, 9:38]
Caldera still pursuing MS case
News Department of Justice and various state attorneys general may be commanding the spotlight with their high-profile legal actions against Microsoft Corp.but, hidden among the mountains of Utah, Caldera Inc.continues to take Microsoft to task over MS...
[February 11, 1998, 9:41]
Intel delivers cheaper Pentium Ms
News The 700 series Pentium Ms are made with new underpinnings: a 90-nanometre processor design dubbed Dothan, which Intel has said offers a performance boost over its preceding Pentium M design dubbed Banias.
[June 23, 2004, 16:20]
New security hole found in MS Word
Talkback Way to drag your feet MS. Why do we have to wait till the 14th to get a fix?
[May 23, 2006, 1:41]
Major bug in MS Excel 2007
Blog Comment Shame that MS hasn't said anything more about the bug - makes it difficult to evaluate what the implications actually were and are. Thanks for pointing that out. R
[October 11, 2007, 10:31]
Early take on MS/Novell is not all bright
Blog But there is a lot of mileage to run in the MS/Novell deal, me thinks, and there'll be a few twists to the tale yet. First take from this side of the Atlantic on the Microsoft/Novell partnership hasn't been entirely positive.
[November 3, 2006, 16:35]
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Blog Comment Back in Middle School she wanted me to go buy MS Office for her. She exported her presentation as a ppt and since that day we have been a MS Office-free zone and will stay that way. If you are using OpenOffice in an office environment, the best...
[August 18, 2008, 9:19]
Major bug in MS Excel 2007
Blog Comment It seems that MS is afraid of going public on this issue. I would really appreciate of some official words on this even though it is going to be fixed with the release of SP1.
[October 11, 2007, 13:00]
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog Hanselman is a senior program manager at MS, and clearly enthusiastic about the whole business. And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing. A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has...
[September 12, 2008, 9:11]
A Year Ago Today: MS sued over IE name
News We'd been using that since before MS was in the Internet business," said Rana, "and they just didn't want to know. Internet Explorer, Microsoft's flagship browser, may have to be renamed if court action by Illinois ISP Synet Inc is successful.
[August 15, 1997, 9:44]
MS Store Trek: The Next Generation
Blog Comment And my main point: if the MS Stores are selling PCs without "crapware" at the same price as other retailers are selling the same models with "crapware" then I am curious to know how they do it. Please don't patronise me, Mary.
[November 30, 2009, 12:36]
News Burst: MS offered to support Intel P7 processor
News Intel's Steven McGeady had testified that Intel cut multimedia programs under pressure from MS, which he said threatened to pull support for another Intel chip, the upcoming MMX.
[November 13, 1998, 5:25]
Actually MS Office 2007 complies with official Ecma standard
Talkback MS Office 2007 uses that version and validates on those XML schema's . Currently there is only one official open standard version of OOXML and that is the Ecma 376 standard.http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
[February 28, 2008, 17:43]
US Report: Experts - MS paying fortune in legal fees
News But as the MS-DOJ case widens in scope, the numbers of lawyers taking part has also climbed, the source said. The software giant is simultaneously in litigation with government trustbusters, Caldera Corp.
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
US Report: MS outlines Y2K program
News Older technology such as Access 2.0, Word for MS-DOS v5 and Office 4x Professional Edition are not compliant. The company soon will post a service pack for IE 4 which will contain the fixes needed to bring the browser and its accompanying platforms...
[June 4, 1998, 10:23]
We expect this from MS though...
Talkback This was to be expected.anyone who has had a long relationship with using MS products know that this is to be expected within a week or two of launch. Admin staff by the dozens know to stay WELL clear of new MS products as they will have security...
[December 12, 2006, 17:14]
Charts and Tides (TX, LA, MS)
Downloads Charts and Tides (TX, LA, MS) combines marine charts, tides and navigation on your iPhone. The charts are vector charts that are derived from official NOAA data. The data is preprocessed to make it continuous and to ensure consistency.
[July 8, 2009, 10:38]
