Red Hat Promises Fedora Improvements
News Red Hat acknowledged on Friday a misstep in its relations with technology enthusiasts but said the profit motive is helping it to mend its ways. The problem came in recent years when Red Hat threw its energies into a stable product called Red Hat...
[February 21, 2005, 8:20]
So, What Is .Net Anyway?
News As what passes for the resident Microsoft zealot here at Builder.com, I had quite a few people drop by my office or e-mail to let me know about Bill Gates' admission in late July that his company may have "made a misstep" with Microsoft .Net.
[August 30, 2002, 11:54]
Why Mighty MS Missed The Boat
News In today's momentum-oriented market, one slip-up or even the rumour of a possible misstep can send a stock into slump that erodes hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in market capitalisation in no time at all.
[November 19, 1999, 8:39]
Microsoft Reorients Itself
Leader Microsoft's first dealings in China were masterpieces of the misstep. Congratulations to the People's Republic of China and Microsoft on forming an alliance that unites two great movements for enlightenment and freedom!
[April 18, 2006, 15:45]
Sun Backs Down On Blackdown
News But when it came to giving credit where credit is due, Sun made a major misstep with open-source developers. It was a press conference like any other press conference. Sun Microsystems announced that, in conjunction with Inprise, it was releasing...
[December 10, 1999, 9:48]
OS X Flaws Draw Hackers' Eyes
News As far as vulnerabilities go, the latest misstep is minor, said a hacker and security expert who uses the handle "shrdlu" and confirmed the problem last week. Apple has never had much trouble grabbing attention for its Macintosh operating system.
[July 4, 2001, 9:04]
Spending On Streaming Video Expected To Skyrocket
News Rader said Intel's misstep had more to do with timing than with the prospects of corporate streaming overall. Prosperity may be just around the corner for the badly battered streaming media industry, but not where most investors had placed their bets.
[April 12, 2001, 11:14]
AOL Blunder Sparks Calls For New Laws
News Discussion of AOL's misstep, which exposed anonymised yet intimate details of its users' personal lives, also surfaced at the Search Engine Strategies conference in California on Wednesday. AOL's recent privacy gaffe that exposed users' search...
[August 10, 2006, 9:30]
Macromedia's Flagship Fails To Fire
News The lack of prerelease evaluation copies was in retrospect a management misstep and sets the upgrade cycle back by 30 days," he wrote in a research note. Shares in Macromedia dropped more than a third on Thursday, after the company lowered revenue...
[October 24, 2003, 11:00]
Gates: .Net Slow To Catch On
News Microsoft's major misstep with .Net My Services was political, not technical, by assuming that people would hand over control of sensitive data to Microsoft, said James Governor, an analyst with Illuminata.
[July 25, 2002, 9:34]
Sun Looks For Java Pay-off
News Some view the early handling of Java as a serious strategic misstep that continues to hamper Sun today because its rivals have consistently built on their initial advantage, leaving the company to play catch-up whenever a new software market comes...
[March 25, 2002, 13:57]
DSDM An XP Alternative?
News There's no corrective design when any misstep can be rapidly eliminated. Managers are turning to methodologies like XP to deliver speed and user satisfaction without compromising quality. However, the bigger the system, the harder it is to create...
[August 13, 2002, 11:15]
US Special Report: Has Intel Goofed With Celeron?
News Cyrix and AMD see Celeron as a misstep, continuing a low-end trend that has already given them a leg up in the market. Those PC makers, however, will be breaking rank in San Francisco tomorrow, when Intel announces Celeron, a pint-sized Pentium II...
[April 14, 1998, 9:26]
News Burst: AMD To Cash In Intel's 64-bit Plans
News Jerry Sanders, CEO and chairman of AMD, said at a press conference in Hanover Monday that its 64-bit Sledgehammer processor, arriving at the end of 2001, will be "the realisation of AMD's dream". Sledgehammer will have the edge over Intel's Itanium...
[February 28, 2000, 11:10]
