Category: Microsoft
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Does Silverlight kill Internet connectivity on Macs?
I had a problem with my MacBookPro the other day. It lost Internet connectivity. It couldn’t get an IP address from the DSL router. Restarting the router didn’t help. Nor did stopping and starting Airport or using a wired connection. At first I figured the router was fried. But then, I restarted the Mac and…
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Sun's answer to the Microsoft litigation threat
Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that they are going to charge open source companies and users for patent infringement is largely being seen as an act of desperation a scare tactic to get enterprise open source users to pony up more money to Microsoft (or buy Microsoft software) in lieu of litigation and a great way to,…
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Microsoft: "You are going to have to pay us for NOT using our products too!"
Microsoft have an image problem. You know they have. They know they have. Almost every time you see a Microsoft employee get up to speak they invariably start by meekly, almost apologetically, admitting they are from Microsoft. Why do they have an image problem? It dates back to the browser wars of the 90s when…
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Silverlight
Microsoft launched Silverlight yesterday in a blaze of stunning demos at the MIX07 keynote yesterday. The demos were not done by Microsoft but by partner companies who were given access to Expression Studio (the Silverlight development tools) a couple of weeks ago. Everyone I have talked to at MIX was blown away. To my mind…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 6
Good news for a change! I received an email from Miel Van Opstal alerting me to the fact that NVIDIA has updated its video driver for the Vaio (Miel is the guy in charge of the Vaio Influencer program in Microsoft). Previously SecondLife refused to run on the Vaio because of video driver issues. Steve…
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Windows Live OneCare is a POS
Windows Live OneCare is a fantastic idea. Write buggy insecure software and then charge the people who buy your software extra if they want to buy OneCare, which is supposed to protect them from the errors you created in the first place. Anyone else see a conflict of interest here? Why fix the software, when…
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Google's Office 2.0 steps up a gear
Sam Schillace (didn’t he play for Italy in the 1990 world cup?) over at Google has just posted that Google are going to roll out the long predicted Google presentation software application this summer. This is technology which they bought in via their purchase of Tonic Systems (a San Francisco-based company that provides Java presentation…