Shuttleworth Distances Himself From Microsoft
News Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's chief executive, wrote in a blog that Canonical has declined to talk to Microsoft about any agreement that provides legal protection to Ubuntu users related to "unspecified patents".
[June 19, 2007, 19:27]
Mandriva Latest To Spurn Microsoft
News A promise by Microsoft not to sue for infringement of unspecified patents has no value at all and is not worth paying for… people who pay protection money for that promise are likely living in a false sense of security," Shuttleworth wrote in a...
[June 22, 2007, 11:39]
Sun 'won't Abandon' Open-source Lobby
News Microsoft will pay Sun $350m to use Sun technology, with Sun paying an unspecified amount later, when it uses Microsoft technology. The agreement basically provides a framework whereby Sun can use royalty payments to pick its way into the Microsoft...
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft Publishes Office Specs In OOXML Push
News In a comment posted on Jones's blog post on Saturday, Rodriguez said that Excel's internal format table, known as BIFF, had missing records and a "reserved" specification, while Office Drawing also had unspecified records.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
NCD To Tap Intel Chips For 'lean' Clients
News Network Computing Devices (NCD) said it will develop so-called "lean client" systems, which are scaled-down computers aimed at replacing dumb terminals for mainframes and minicomputers-using an unspecified version of Intel's Pentium processor.
[March 10, 1998, 11:28]
A Year Ago: NCD To Tap Intel Chips For 'lean' Clients
News Network Computing Devices (NCD) said it will develop so-called "lean client" systems, which are scaled-down computers aimed at replacing dumb terminals for mainframes and minicomputers-using an unspecified version of Intel's Pentium processor.
[March 9, 1999, 5:35]
Microsoft Insists Its Monopolistic Days Are Over
News Among other plans, the company intends to expand "antitrust training" to a greater, though unspecified, number of employees across multiple divisions. Under fire for a marketing plan that may have improperly favoured Windows Media Player, Microsoft...
[December 1, 2005, 11:50]
Symantec Sues Microsoft Over Storage Tech
News The suit, filed on Thursday in US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring Microsoft from using the Symantec technology, which would include a halt on Windows Vista and...
[May 19, 2006, 9:10]
You've Got To Be Kidding, Albert
Talkback By my count, Part 4 of the OOXML specification identifies separate 573 extension points whose functionality is unspecified. Indeed, the only reason Microsoft can claim conformance is that the spec is so poor that it allows vendor-specific...
[March 1, 2008, 14:29]
