Practical Technology

It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get like a drum by i4i (http://www.i4i.com/) when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit. Of course, that isn’t what Microsoft said when the judge ordered Microsoft to pay i4i $290-million and stop selling any version of Word or Office that could [...]

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Up on the Internet servers pause and then out jumps relatively good old Microsoft and down through your Internet chimney they’ll be delivering lots of Windows and Office patches to good little Windows users-those who have legal copies of Windows. Yes, it’s almost time for Microsoft’s holiday edition of Patch Tuesday, December 8th. This is [...]

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It’s easy to say you should patch your Windows PC as soon as possible. But, if you have a business with hundreds of PCs, and an even greater number of ways that a patch might cause trouble, you can’t be blamed for wanting to do make darn sure the patch doesn’t cause more trouble than [...]

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I live on the Internet. I work on the Internet. I keep in touch with my friends on the Internet. Without the Internet, I’m out of business. I’m not the only one. But lately, with my rock-solid AT&T DSL connection (6Mbit/sec. down, 512Kbit/sec. up), I’ve taken it for granted. That was before my connection went [...]

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Now, I am not a lawyer. But, I’ve been reporting on IP (intellectual property) law issues for years now, so I know something about how these issues are resolved, and when I see that one attorney thinks there’s an “easy technical work-around” for Microsoft’s patent violation in Word, my alarm bells go off. There is [...]

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