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Microsoft debases Linux standards
News Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, said on Friday that there is a risk that Linux will end up fragmented like the Unix operating system -- a charge that Linux vendors have robustly denied.
[February 1, 2005, 11:20]
Microsoft's mixed messages over ODF
News Nick McGrath, director of platform strategy for Microsoft UK, told ZDNet UK on Thursday: "In a nutshell, ODF doesn't meet the needs of Microsoft applications. McGrath said that applications such as OpenOffice, which runs on ODF, would not fully...
[May 18, 2007, 16:24]
LCD monitor prices 'to stabilise in 2003'
News Speaking in London on Tuesday at the launch of nine new NEC/Mitsubishi LCD monitors, general manager John McGrath said he expects a recovery in the notebook market to soak up a lot of the over-supply next summer.
[December 5, 2002, 9:39]
AMD announces dual-core Opterons
News In addition, AMD said the dual-core Opteron chips will be about the same size and produce the same amount of waste heat as current single-core Opterons, Kevin McGrath, manager of the Opteron architecture, said in a speech at the Fall Processor...
[October 6, 2004, 8:50]
Bitlocker key to safe disk disposal, says Microsoft
News With Vista and Bitlocker, businesses will be able to throw hard disks away and be sure [they are] secure," said Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy for Microsoft UK at Infosecurity 2006. However, McGrath rejected suggestions that Bitlocker...
[April 26, 2006, 11:05]
Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat
Talkback Judging by Mr McGrath's view, MS hasn't really changed on the inside.Its all a public facade to make it look like it has! Here is the counter-article to Mr McGrath's Forrester article. I find Nick McGrath's comments very interesting.
[October 5, 2006, 8:37]
Sony's rootkit woes aren't over
News Sony still has to contend with a consortium of 13 states, including Massachusetts, Nebraska and Florida, that is expected to look for a similar deal, according to Jeff McGrath, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, which took part in...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
BayStar wants management changes at SCO
News We think they need to strengthen the senior team to get people with experience and background in the legal issues," McGrath said. And if SCO addresses BayStar's concerns, the investor is open to reversing its redemption request, McGrath added.
[April 22, 2004, 12:45]
Microsoft blames adminstrators for hacking attacks
News Nicholas McGrath, product marketing manager of Microsoft UK, strongly encourages network administrators to maintain adequate security. McGrath claims it is not up to Microsoft to make the software foolproof.
[August 21, 2000, 16:38]
Portugal takes RFID tags to dogs
News We fought like cats and dogs for this business," said Digital Angel chief executive Kevin McGrath. In the United States, McGrath estimated, RFID technology last year helped return about 6,000 tagged animals to their owners per month.
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
Security chief quits Microsoft
News Okin's shoes will be partially filled by Nick McGrath, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, who will now become the "security orchestration lead", according to Okin's email. McGrath told ZDNet UK that Okin was moving to become an associate...
[October 13, 2004, 17:15]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
News But Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft UK, said the reports are unbiased and "reflective of market conditions". According to McGrath: "The results of each of the studies we commission can go either way.
[January 29, 2004, 15:15]
Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure', claim vendors
News We are trying to make file format changes as we recognise this is a challenge to customers," said McGrath. Customers need to look at their operating environment," said McGrath. Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, had other ideas.
[September 28, 2004, 16:25]
Microsoft: 'Linux is more of a threat than before'
News We asked an audience of 250 or 300 business people today if they thought that Linux was a free option, and no hands went up," said Nicholas McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft. McGrath also cited a series of recent customer wins...
[June 11, 2004, 15:00]
Microsoft will not sue over Linux patents
News Nick McGrath, Microsoft's UK director of platform strategy, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that some customers were worried about the possibility of patent litigation. We conducted research into the best way to give customers peace of mind," said McGrath.
[May 21, 2007, 11:16]
Norway's second city embraces Linux
News We asked an audience of 250 or 300 business people today if they thought that Linux was a free option, and no hands went up," said Nicholas McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, speaking at the first Microsoft Linux event in the UK...
[June 15, 2004, 15:15]
Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
News McGrath also said that SP2 for XP had a firewall, and that Vista was not as "accessible to the average hacker" due to "operating system components". Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy for Microsoft UK, said that the demonstration had been...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Linux firms rubbish Microsoft's customer win
News Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, claimed that RICS was facing a common problem of having an individual installation of Linux in a Windows environment. We are finding increasingly that where Linux has made its way into companies...
[March 22, 2005, 13:30]
Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat
Talkback Nick McGrath is full of sh1t and has his head buried up his ass. If this article is a true representation of where his thinking is at I'm looking forward to his employer's continued loss of market share
[October 6, 2006, 14:45]
No Office on Linux 'at this time'
Talkback It's clear that McGrath doesn't share the same vision that made Microsoft the giant it is today. The statement that Microsoft is 100% focused on Windows explains a lot. It contradicts what I know about the company which is that Micrsoft is a...
[October 26, 2005, 14:29]
