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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 22nd Jul 2006 00:35 UTC
In the early days of the 1970s, computer games were little more than a fantasy to most of the world's population.
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Microsoft offered 9 billion in Cash for Yahoo Stake in latest Offer
Details appeared what Microsoft offered in the last weeks before Yahoo! decided to end talks by entering an advertisement deal with Google. Apparently Microsoft was offering $9 billion in cash and $1 billion per year in additional operating profit. ...
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Mad Penguin has published a review of SUSE 10.1 , including info on multimedia, XGL/Compiz, and a flash movie of the installation. They conclude: "The desktop itself is one to be reckoned with.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sun 24th Jul 2005 15:11 UTC
In recent months, Microsoft has purchased numerous security companies. Is this a sign that Microsoft has decided to try and secure its Operating Systems from out side threats? Or just trying to increase its revenue through an ever growing portfolio of products?
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The European Commission said on Wednesday it told Microsoft that it had competition worries about the firm's new operating system , Vista, another antitrust concern that the software giant must answer in Europe.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:31 UTC
If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried . That's because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will be hard pressed to ...
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The MorphOS Team is pleased to announce that the next public release of MorphOS will support the EFIKA . MorphOS is a lightweight and flexible operating system and EFIKA is a low-power and silent miniature mainboard based on the Freescale PPC5200.
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Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.
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In addition, Microsoft has launched a new website where it details its relationship with open source .
"In his keynote at OSCON, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Bill Hilf announced that Microsoft is submitting its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative . This is a huge, long-awaited move.
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Yahoo seeks Google's aid after Microsoft talks die
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.'s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet's lucrative search advertising market.
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HPD to get new mobile computers
HARLINGEN - Police officers hope to know more about motorists involved in traffic stops with the punch of a few keys by early next summer.
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MS offered $9 bln for Yahoo stake, search deal
SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO, USA: When Yahoo Inc turned down the latest offer from Microsoft Corp this week, it walked away from $9 billion in cash and $1 billion a year in additional operating profit, Microsoft said on Friday.
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There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them are widely accepted throughout the popular distributions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users - they can make decisions for themselves.
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"In the February 2007 survey we received responses from 108810358 sites, an increase of 1.93 million from last month. Apache has a decline of 442K sites this month, and sees its share of the web server market slip by 1.47 percent to 58.7 percent.
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Brad Wardell writes us: "Windows Vista Beta 2 is nearly here and now seems as good a time as any to take a look at where things stand with Microsoft's next-generation operating system. As this article makes clear, Windows Vista has a lot of potential - it is a major upgrade.
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"It's been known that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) phones home for quite some time now. For most of us, we've come to live with Microsoft's decision to relegate the software to only contacting the company's servers once every few weeks .
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A declaration by SCO's backer, BayStar has revealed that the software Giant Microsoft had more links to the anti-Linux bad-boy . The declaration made by from BayStar general partner Larry Goldfarb has turned up as part of IBM's evidence to the court.
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MS offered $9 bln for Yahoo stake, search deal
SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO, USA:Â When Yahoo Inc turned down the latest offer from Microsoft Corp this week, it walked away from $9 billion in cash and $1 billion a year in additional operating profit, Microsoft said on Friday. In an e-mail to employees, Microsoft platforms and services division p...
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Yahoo makes Google advertisement deal, Microsoft talks fail
SEATTLE: Microsoft’s plan to establish a strong footing in online advertising has suffered a big blow as merger talks with Yahoo finally, formally failed and Yahoo said it would let Google sell search ads on its site.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Aug 2006 21:23 UTC
Virtualization and Linux can be a match made in heaven, which is why enterprise Linux heavyweights Red Hat and Novell are pushing so hard to make support for virtualization a highlight of their respective mainstream Linux operating systems.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Aug 2005 16:27 UTC
A week ago the news got out that Microsoft had approached OSDL for a comperative study between Linux and Windows. OSDL confirmed this, however, they did not provide an answer to Microsoft's request.
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WorkLight Announces Relationship with Microsoft
WorkLight Inc. launched a new product that allows employees to access and update Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 information using popular Internet consumer tools.
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The Natchez Democrat
FERRIDAY — Ferriday Town Hall was burglarized Thursday night or Friday morning, and during the burglary town records were gone through and a computer was taken.
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Microsoft ended three years of resistance on Monday and finally agreed to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The defeated software giant announced it would not appeal against a decisive European Union court ruling two months ago that backed the Commission.
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DA's office recognizes employee's long service
Possibly more than most, Judy Blevins appreciates a computer’s backspace button.
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