This sound familiar? Mozilla is complaining that Microsoft is impeding its Firefox web browser from getting on the devices being designed to carry the unseen next-generation Windows for ARM chip, now officially called Windows RT. RT, which has a Metro environment for tablets and phones, as well as a classic Windows interface, won’t support legacy [...]
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Microsoft is about to release a limited number of ARM-based widgets running Windows 8 to developers so when the operating system hits GA it can compete against the iPad, according to what Windows president Steven Sinofsky told Bloomberg and others Thursday. The system, which can’t run legacy programs, will need brand new apps. The object [...]
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After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server. HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. This new [...]
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Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday charging Google with unfair practices in search, online advertising and smartphone software, a broader raft of charges against the search giant than the EC is believed to be currently investigating. It is the first time Microsoft has ever complained to the EC about anybody. Historically [...]
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That scare-the-open-source-community-to-death Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC consortium that’s supposed to buy 882 unknown Novell patents for $450 million cash as an “it-can’t-happen-without-it” part of Novell’s pending $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate, withdrew its unstamped joint venture permission slip with the German antitrust authorities on December 30 according to an amended citation on the Bundeskartellamt’s web site. The terse, [...]
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Microsoft confirmed Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show that it is moving Windows full tilt to the memory-restricted, Linux-doting ARM chip, provoking somebody to crack that the Wintel marriage has become an open relationship. Bloomberg and then the Wall Street Journal reported as much right before Christmas. They indicated that they had heard from unnamed [...]
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Microsoft has tucked some undisclosed – and from its point of view immaterial – amount of money in Paris-based TurboHercules SAS, the year-old open source mainframe project-turned-commercial emulator outfit whose antitrust complaint against IBM spurred the European Commission to open not one but two ongoing Justice Department-mimicking antitrust investigations of Big Blue. Microsoft has spent [...]
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Novell, which has been on the block for months, said Monday morning that it’s selling out to Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 a share, or roughly $2.2 billion in cash. At the same time Novell said it’s also selling certain unidentified intellectual property to a thing called CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of equally unidentified technology [...]
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Microsoft Tuesday dumped the clumsy, not-very-memorable Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) brand it inflicted on poor SharePoint Online and Exchange Online in favor of a new cloudy repackaged concoction called Office 365, simpler, more memorable branding than Microsoft has seemed capable of lately accompanied by a lot of confused and confusing messaging. Contrary to reports [...]
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Adobe had an interesting afternoon Thursday. That’s when the New York Times came out and blogged that it knew from employees and consultants who were involved or simply knew that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Flash-wielding, Apple-banned Adobe, met recently at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco for “secret” talks, and [...]
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