May 27, 2008
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“Last Chance!” Read the e-mail ad from Dell’s small-business division. “June 18th is the last day you can choose your operating system: Windows XP or Windows Vista.” That’s not true at all as Gregg Keizer points out in FAQ: XP … Continue reading
May 25, 2008
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Whatever drugs Steve Ballmer is on they must be very, very good. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for Ballmer telling the Australian press that he’s “amazing pleased” with Vista sales. Unlike arguing the virtues of XP … Continue reading
May 22, 2008
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Those dumb South Africans don’t just get it seems to be Microsoft’s senior director of interoperability’s Jason Matusow message in his blog posting of May 19th. In this piece, trying to present a case for proprietary software over open-source software … Continue reading
May 22, 2008
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At first, when I learned that Microsoft was not quickly supporting its own Open XML, but ODF and PDF instead, I thought it was a great joke. Microsoft went to all that trouble to make Open XML an ISO standard, … Continue reading
May 21, 2008
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Microsoft did everything it could to make its Open XML pseudo document standard an official ISO standard. Fight, cheat, whatever it took. Nothing was too low. And, at the end, Microsoft won. Too bad after all that, Microsoft can’t even … Continue reading
May 4, 2008
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In the business textbooks of 2025, Microsoft’s slow collapse will be attributed to many things. The failure of Windows Vista to hold the desktop market; Microsoft’s inability to successfully move from a PC product based company to an Internet service … Continue reading