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Ballmer defends Microsoft's security record
News Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. Why is its pedigree better than code done in a controlled fashion? Should there be a reason to believe that code that comes from a variety of people around the...
[October 22, 2003, 9:10]
Google's offline web apps click into gear
News The company released the source code for the Google Gears software in conjunction with Google Developer Day, a day-long conference in 10 locations. The initial code is aimed at JavaScript developers who write Ajax-style web applications.
[May 31, 2007, 8:26]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback As an example the half life 2 source code is freely available on the net, produced by your beloved M$" This was the source code for crying out loud. Plus of course the open source community take great pleasure and glee in hollering hysterically...
[January 29, 2004, 20:07]
China dictates purchase of local software
News In response, Microsoft has been on a charm offensive, including granting the government inspection rights over Windows source code and creating a new chief executive position for Greater China. China is placing official support behind the Red Flag...
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment Just not sure that Windows 7 based on Vista code base is the right way to go. There are revenue streams to be had from keeping XP and updating it marginally and keeping the XP code base, and these might not be at the expense of Windows 7.
[February 6, 2009, 13:51]
SAMBA, Microsoft and the real Issue
Blog What's really funny is that if Microsoft published their source code under a copyright, had it printed up, distributed and sold as a book it would qualify as a bestseller immediately. I don't think many users would scan all that printed source code...
[December 29, 2007, 15:59]
Gates vs Noorda: Here we go again?
News For companies that work on Windows projects only, it's fairly easy to comply with Microsoft's insistence that people with access to the Windows source code guard Microsoft's crown jewels with their lives.
[September 27, 2000, 13:55]
Microsoft awaits punitive EU judgment
Talkback If the source code was forced to be released for all and sundry to be able to make better integrating media player programs wouldnt this also make it easier for hackers to break in to your system? It all integrates well.which takes me back to point...
[March 18, 2004, 20:09]
Microsoft courts programmers
News His strategy is simple: give developers the tools to write code securely and faster than Java and open-source alternatives. Q: Should we expect Microsoft to do more code sharing for developers? So if you look at the development life cycle of...
[July 20, 2004, 14:55]
Experts warn of JPEG-based virus attack
News I think because the source code for the kit was released, we will see people that take that source code and create new versions," said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager for security software maker McAfee.
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
Open source angst: Fear of forking
News Among some open source developers, forking equals the end of the code-development tree's common roots. A number of open source advocates claimed the Samba fork would not actually amount to a fork, since the development team said it had no plans to...
[October 17, 2000, 8:12]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog Admittedly Open Source can be cheaper if you think of the code itself not costing anything. Well I don't as I'm not a coder, but I can feed back any problems that I have as a bug report, and can ask someone else to code it and get them to...
[September 21, 2009, 10:06]
Join Linux to Active Directory with Samba 3.0
News As of this writing, build 17 of the Samba code was the latest and can be downloaded here. As of this writing, these libraries are at version 1.2.4-1.krb5-devel can be downloaded here; \\krb5-libs can be downloaded here; and krb5-workstation can be...
[September 17, 2002, 9:59]
Gnome throws down the gauntlet
News Evolution, a competitor to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes on the groupware/messaging front that is being developed by Helix Code In addition to hardware makers Compaq, HP, IBM and Sun, other backers of the Gnome Foundation include: Helix Code...
[August 16, 2000, 9:01]
Ozzie takes Microsoft beyond Windows
News In a nod to the popularity of open source among web start-ups and developers, Microsoft said it will release the source code for its Dynamic Language Runtime — software for running applications written with dynamic, or scripting, languages — under...
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
News Open source developers are also faced with the problem that they cannot publish the source code of products that have been written using Microsoft's licensed information. But information on how to manage file privileges is not included under the...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
Back Orifice 2.0 going legit?
News Besides such tweaks as a smaller footprint, stronger encryption, open plug-in architecture, and Windows NT and Windows 2000 compatibility, the big news about BO2K is that it will be available as open source code under GNU Public License.
[July 12, 1999, 10:16]
Microsoft settles Bristol lawsuit
News The company licensed Windows source code at a time when Microsoft's Windows NT operating system trailed Unix substantially in market share. Bristol alleged that Microsoft initially gave access to the Windows source code for its Wind/U product but...
[February 22, 2001, 9:05]
Microsoft to share more knowledge
News The company also recently expanded its shared source programme to allow other companies that provide PC technical support to have access to some source code. Under its settlement with regulators, Microsoft is required to license such code on...
[December 3, 2003, 7:50]
New Windows Embedded 'raises the bar for Linux'
News We are going to open the entire Windows Embedded CE kernel for our partner developers for the first time in our 10-year history, through our Microsoft shared source initiative," Poppinga said on Monday, adding: "Our partners will now be even more...
[November 1, 2006, 16:23]
