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Ballmer and Gates are quitters, says Sun boss

Scott McNealy claims Microsoft's management got the steal on the competition by dropping out of college Read more

1 August, 2003 by Andrew Donoghue

Sun releases pricing for StarOffice

StarOffice 6.0 - Sun's biggest revision yet of the open source suite - will cost a fraction of the price Microsoft charges for its market-leading software Read more

15 May, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

MS Windows vs. MS Office?

...said Ransom Love, president and CEO of Linux vendor Caldera. "Corel and Sun/StarOffice would face new, significant competition, but at least (a breakup) would... Read more

2 May, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice

By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most consumer desktop PCs sold in Europe, marking another dent in Microsoft's dominance of office suites Read more

6 December, 2002 by David Becker

Microsoft does open source u-turn

Microsoft is now cosying up to the open source movement, and there are sound business reasons behind the about-face Read more

14 October, 2002 by Alorie Gilbert, Joe Wilcox and Mike Ricciuti

Sun expands StarOffice giveaway

The company will give away its software suite to ministries of education in Europe and Africa in an effort to chip away at Microsoft's dominance of the market Read more

17 September, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Red Hat ready to tackle Microsoft's desktop dominance

Although its primary business is in server software, Linux company Red Hat is looking at the desktop market Read more

24 June, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

SuSE 8.0 arrives without StarOffice

The German Linux distributor has built many new features into its latest software, but has left out StarOffice 6.0 because of new licensing terms from Sun Read more

26 April, 2002 by Matthew Broersma
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3 October, 2005
Lotus Symphony: a first look

Lotus Symphony: a first look

Although it's still in beta testing, IBM's Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software. Read more

24 September, 2007 by Elsa Wenzel

Are Sun and Microsoft forming an unholy alliance?

...org; or, if companies are open to paying a licensing fee to Sun, StarOffice. As noted previously, Sun has already negotiated for legal protection from... Read more

29 September, 2004 by David Berlind

Free office suite reaches milestone release

...and a database, and also has support and training services available from Sun. StarOffice 6.0 is available now as a part of paid versions... Read more

2 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Apple the 'one trick pony' of the desktop world

...ideal position to strengthen its hand. Despite contradictory statements coming out of Sun, StarOffice for OS X makes perfect sense. Sun needs cross-platform credentials... Read more

27 August, 2002 by silicon.com staff

When was the Linux desktop ever alive?

...before it can become mainstream. Listen, I know all about Corel and Sun/StarOffice's offerings. They're great. But I'm not talking technical... Read more

5 June, 2001 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

9 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

10 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

14 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

20 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

21 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

22 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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