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Reshuffle At Microsoft Underlines NT Delays
News The move would seemingly abandon the pretence that anything about Windows 2000 is rapid. Brian Valentine, former head of the Exchange Server development, took up the reins following the unexpected departure of Microsoft vice president Moshe Dunie...
[January 29, 1999, 10:27]
Still Waiting For 2000
News The move would seemingly abandon the pretence that anything about Windows 2000 is "rapid. Translation: Microsoft's development team may be experiencing more problems, since a final beta release typically arrives only a few weeks after RC0.
[January 26, 1999, 10:42]
Sun Wants Java To Share More
News The announcement follows Sun's decision on Wednesday to abandon its bid to join Eclipse, a rival open-source initiative to develop Java tools IBM is leading. The plan centres on the company's NetBeans project, which is an open-source effort to...
[December 5, 2003, 10:30]
Site Slams IE's Security
News Microsoft last year said it planned to abandon development of a standalone IE, preferring instead to focus on integrating Web functionality into its new operating system, code-named Longhorn. A group that prodded browser makers toward better...
[August 25, 2004, 8:10]
Sun Drops Out Of Eclipse
News We both decided we did not want to abandon our constituents," said Green. The Eclipse open-source project, founded by IBM in 2001, is an IBM-owned consortium that has gained the membership of several development tools companies over the past year.
[December 4, 2003, 8:15]
Mozilla Slims Down
News Under the new plan, Mozilla will abandon its XPFE toolkit for creating the browser's user interface. According to the roadmap, Mozilla will not immediately abandon work on the old code base. In a new roadmap released on Wednesday, AOL Time Warner's...
[April 3, 2003, 8:10]
Photos: Intel's Science Fair
News Intel claims it has no desire to abandon the chip market for the Web 2.0 development, but it does allow researchers to experiment with web applications to get a sense of how demand for those applications will affect the processing requirements of...
[June 25, 2007, 8:40]
How Does 'that Company' Treat Free Software?
Talkback So, should we abandon Java for heterogeneous development because it is not GNU licensed? Sorry, but there is absolutely nothing in the Open Source world that makes Xplatform development this easy. If you want to make that argument complain that IBM...
[July 26, 2005, 14:34]
US Report: Sun Insiders Questioned Java License
News Unsealed parts of Sun attorney Lloyd "Rusty" Day's testimony show that Microsoft wrote that it wanted "to kill cross-platform Java and grow the polluted Java market" by encouraging developers to abandon its cross-platform promises.
[October 1, 1998, 9:11]
Sender ID Loses Supporters
News Microsoft's licence for patent claims made on Sender ID prevent (the specification) from being a standard in the open-source community," one member of the working group wrote in a posting titled "Motion to abandon Sender ID.
[September 3, 2004, 9:25]
Honesty Is The Best Policy For All The Web
Leader It needs to abandon its own versions of JavaScript so that developers aren't tempted to use them in new web applications. The company's whole attitude to Web standards has taken a refreshing turn with the development of the new browser version, and...
[August 2, 2005, 13:40]
Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60bn' Out Of The Industry
News With a 94 percent market share we are not going to abandon Windows, that would be foolhardy -- but we do think the market will abandon Windows at some point. The solution, according to the Novell boss, will come through the movement to open source...
[September 13, 2004, 17:00]
Java Players Want Tools To Work Together
News Sun also did not want to abandon the NetBeans developer community, company executives said. A number of Java software companies, including Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems, are expected to announce on Tuesday an effort to improve interoperability...
[January 6, 2004, 15:05]
TurboLinux Makes Desktop Debut
News For this reason, TurboLinux plans to abandon TurboDesk in the next version of its desktop operating system, due at the end of the year, in favour of GNOME, which has the most momentum in the Linux community.
[September 9, 1999, 10:59]
Apple's MPEG-4 Snub May Halt QuickTime
News However, he would not put a timeframe on when Apple might abandon MPEG-4 if licensing terms could not be worked out. The marketplace recognises the role that intellectual property rights play in the development of these technologies, and the good...
[February 13, 2002, 12:03]
Alpha Proved Costly For Compaq
News Eventually, he said, other computer makers, like Sun Microsystems, will likely have to abandon their own proprietary chips and embrace Intel's processors just as Compaq did. While Compaq still plans to introduce a newer, faster Alpha chip - the EV7...
[June 28, 2001, 9:48]
Wine Development Stifled By Software Patent
News Developers on the Windows compatibility project Wine have been forced to abandon an important feature due to the existence of a Borland patent. In a talk at the annual Wine Developer Conference in Stuttgart earlier this month, Wine developer...
[May 13, 2005, 10:05]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
News The right thing for Microsoft to do is to abandon the patent and acknowledge that it should never have been granted in the first place," said Ravicher. David Kaefer, director of business development in Microsoft's IP and licensing group, said that...
[March 23, 2005, 15:20]
FBI: Winning The Tech Challenge
News Last year, the FBI was forced to abandon its initial plans to create a so-called Virtual Case File system, with FBI Director Robert Mueller admitting to Congress that more than $100m had been wasted. In March, the FBI awarded Lockheed Martin the...
[July 19, 2006, 12:45]
'Market Conditions' Blamed For Demise Of Broadband Scheme
News The government has cited "significantly changed market conditions" as the main reason behind its decision to abandon its £15m broadband aggregation scheme. As a result the government will now cut central funding and devolve aggregation policy to...
[December 2, 2004, 14:20]
