March 31, 2008
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Lately, Microsoft has been trying really, really hard to appear as open source’s best friend. All I can say is: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Microsoft has been making all these wonderful promises of opening up APIs and … Continue reading
March 31, 2008
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Despite alleged voting irregularities, Microsoft’s OpenXML format for office documents seems on its way to standardization. According to multiple observers, Microsoft’s OpenXML is on its way to becoming an ISO standard. The three sites that have been following the International … Continue reading
March 28, 2008
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Come on Microsoft, stop holding out on us. We want our XP SP3! I’ve been running Windows XP3 since release candidate 1 was made available to TechNet members on December 3, 2007. And you know what? It just works. I … Continue reading
March 25, 2008
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If I know anything, I know operating systems. My first one was CICS/MVS on an Amdahl mainframe, followed by VAX/VMS, CP/M-80, TOPS-20, more Unix and Linux variations than you could shake a stick at, every version of DOS and Windows … Continue reading
March 21, 2008
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For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the … Continue reading
March 11, 2008
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Add another hard drive and lose your data. What the heck is this? Believe it or not, recently I’ve seen several Microsoft products – Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V virtualization – that I think are winners. But then, just when … Continue reading