According to WHOIS Microsoft as of Tuesday owned office.com, a domain name that it will presumably use in its cloud defense against Google Apps et al and replace the less streamline office.microsoft.com when it come time to field its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. So far it’s not saying. It [...]
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Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop. The ingredients this time consist of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges’ Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE) 2.0 larded with IBM’s own Smart Client desktop software otherwise [...]
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With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It’s sort of, like, unbelievable….Nobody gets [...]
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Microsoft released Windows 7 Build 7600 to manufacturing Wednesday afternoon, a day ahead of its numbers. Windows Server 2008 RC2 also RTM’d. Microsoft said the gold code will start going out to OEMs in a couple of days. It’s sticking with October 22 as the date for general availability although it would seem Microsoft could [...]
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Pass the smelling salts. Microsoft Monday released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the GPL 2 license, the mother of all open source licenses written when open source was still a pup by the brassbound Free Software Foundation. The company itself admits the shock, horror move “would have been unheard [...]
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Microsoft’s not ready to punch out Google’s lights and ensure that Google Apps only appeals to people morbidly disaffected by Microsoft. Contrary to rampant speculation the only thing Microsoft was prepared to say at its Worldwide Partner Conference this week was that its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote are coming [...]
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The shoe that Google’s been itching to drop – the one everybody knew was dangling – has finally dropped. With Pearl Harbor-like timing of a declaration of war, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson said in a midnight blog post Wednesday morning that Google’s going to develop a fast, [...]
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Microsoft has priced Windows 7. At retail the Home Premium version will list for $200, Professional $300 and Ultimate $320. That’s the full kit and Windows rarely sells for list. The upgrade prices are supposed to run $120 for Home Premium, $200 for Professional and $220 for Ultimate. Microsoft has cut the price of the [...]
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Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret “Open Cloud Manifesto” that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn’t identify the author or authors of this manifesto – one would guess organized by IBM given some recent whispers coming from its direction [...]
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Well, it’s finally happened. Microsoft, which has only sued two other companies for patent infringement in its whole life, is exercising its patent rights over Linux and suing TomTom, the Dutch-based portable GPS device house, for ignoring its pleas to license its patents like other GPS system makers have. Actually Microsoft is suing TomTom on [...]
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