Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Leader Even better, it could kill the EU software patent directive, the consequences of which have never been more starkly apparent. Let's start with some facts. Microsoft has been found guilty by the highest authorities in Europe - as in the US - of...
[March 18, 2005, 12:15]
Ballmer 'vowed To Kill Google'
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on...
[September 5, 2005, 9:05]
Shoot To Kill: Media Enforcer Stalks Napster
News Can MP3 kill the music industry? An anti-Napster program called the Media Enforcer has been created by an anonymous programmer who claims he is interested in curtailing piracy. Media Enforcer stalks Napster, gathering the names of music files being...
[June 2, 2000, 10:34]
Microsoft On Trial: Executives Told To 'kill' QuickTime
News Microsoft threatened to "kill" some of Apple's most prized technology efforts unless it surrendered the market for PC multimedia technology, according to an Apple executive. Are you really asking us to kill playback?
[November 6, 1998, 14:33]
Wife 'hired A Hitman' To Kill Scoot.com CEO
News The ex-wife of Jon Molyneux, the former chief executive of Scoot.com, has pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill her husband for his life insurance money, the Old Bailey heard on Monday. Shelley Molyneux, who has four children, and whose 21-year...
[September 23, 2002, 15:56]
AOL To Kill Pop-ups
Talkback i would like aol to kill all the unwanted pop ups
[March 18, 2004, 4:10]
Microsoft Prepares To Kill Windows Messenger
Talkback hello, i hope microsoft dont kill off windows messager,because i think its very good to have and if microsoft decide to remove it,it means that i and everyone else will not be able to chat to any of our friends anymore weather they are ones we all...
[October 31, 2003, 17:17]
Microsoft To Disable Vista 'kill Switch'
News Windows Vista's controversial "kill switch" function will be disabled by Microsoft after customer complaints that legitimate copies of the operating system were identified as counterfeit copies. The "kill switch" tool was designed as a...
[December 5, 2007, 15:25]
Smartphones Aren't Smart Enough To Kill The PC
Talkback Smartphones WONT kill the lappy. I have been using Smartphones since 2002. I still use a desktop and laptop. My laptop is a massively powerful machine but it does not come close to matching my desktop for power.
[October 20, 2006, 12:35]
Smartphones Aren't Smart Enough To Kill The PC
Talkback Smartphones won't kill PC for a very simple reason : they ARE PC, aka Information Processing Units that are owned by a single person.smartphone" is just a bad word for "palmtop" computer. Thus "palmtop" computers WILL kill "Laptop" computers, not...
[October 18, 2006, 13:31]
Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Talkback The anonymous poster (second post above) who lists their occupation as mgt (whatever that is! is clearly ignorant, stupid or biased. How anyone can defend Microsoft - the business that has been found guilty of illegal activities in courts all over...
[March 19, 2005, 6:33]
Microsoft Prepares To Kill Windows Messenger
Talkback Headline and Biline I would like to see: Security fears mean Microsoft will switch off its operating system in its next update of Windoze. Spam attacks, FUD, lack of ethics and security vulnerabilities will prompt Microsoft to turn off its...
[October 29, 2003, 20:19]
Bluetooth Will Kill Off Wireless Standard
News The 802.11 standard uses the same radio frequency as Bluetooth, the license free ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) Band at 2.45GHz. This Band is also used by the HomeRF group's SWAP technology, microwave ovens and automatic garage doors.
[May 18, 1999, 8:37]
Netscape Feared MS Would Kill Merger
News Currie, who appeared before attorneys from both sides in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial, said, "We did wonder if AOL, by acquiring Netscape, would secure the animus of Microsoft .if AOL got weak-kneed or cold feet, the deal could vanish.
[April 29, 1999, 9:51]
Ballmer 'vowed To Kill Google'
Talkback A word of advice to bully boy Ballmer "SHUT YOUR FREAKIN MOUTH " you aint worth the price of a piece of USED toilet paper ( and for those out there that lack the brain to work this one out then use a piece of toilet paper for it's designed use...
[September 5, 2005, 21:42]
IT's Kill Or Cure Choice For A Dirty World
Talkback The discarding of computers is surely near-criminal, even when damaged beyond use most of the components are in working order and in most cases, could be simply seperated and reassembled with another computer to make a whole good one.
[March 23, 2004, 15:18]
Microsoft Prepares To Kill Windows Messenger
Talkback You moron not that MESSENGER
[November 4, 2003, 11:33]
Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Talkback I'm afraid I have to disagree with your statement. If you read over the license agreement, there are two important issues: The license fee The non-sharing code condition The first part (license fee) is a problem not because they charge a fee.
[March 18, 2005, 22:10]
Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Talkback All this anti-Microsoft stuff is, in reality, the politics of envy. MS make excellent products and just about everyone buys them. That tells you something about the end-user market and its decision on this issue.
[March 25, 2005, 10:12]
Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Talkback I love how each new release of Microsoft products have more bugs and everything is moved around. We upgraded to Excel 2003 at the end of 2004, and have had nothing but problems with our Excel add-ins and workbooks (spending a few weeks rewriting...
[March 18, 2005, 16:07]

