April 20, 1999
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Torvalds gave a keynote speech at the Linux Global Summit at Spring Comdex half an hour after Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates opened the show in a much larger auditorium. While Gates, like Torvalds, addressed an overflow crowd, the two … Continue reading
April 15, 1999
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It’s so simple, on the face of it. Mindcraft Inc., in a new study [http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html] commissioned by Microsoft Corp., found that “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times faster … Continue reading
February 2, 1998
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It all happened within minutes. The U.S. Department of Justice stepped up its war on Microsoft Corp. and immediately two top Microsoftexecutives were on the phone to PC makers, leaning on them to dispute the government’s argument. Their sole mission … Continue reading
January 22, 1992
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Once more into the breech! Microsoft, after years of playing second fiddle to Novell in the LAN market, now enters the networking battle field with Windows for Workgroups (WinWork). WinWork adds peer-to-peer networking functionality to Windows 3.1. This bold combination … Continue reading