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Microsoft wants to control your hardware
June 13th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
At least, that seems to be the implication of its new "digital manners policy" patent, which would force your gadgets to receive "orders" from a digital Miss Manners overlord. For ... Read more..Brits shying away from Microsoft Office
May 14th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »
According to InformationWeek, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is advocating for removing Microsoft Office from the classroom in favor of open-standards compliant office suites like OpenOffice.org. It is good ... Read more..Windos XP Service Pack 3: come and get it!
April 29th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
If you have been steadfastly holding on to Windows XP (and really, who could blame you?), you have probably been looking forward to the promised Service Pack 3, which will ... Read more..I finally got to try Windows Vista
April 4th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | 1 Comment »
I scored a refurbished Gateway computer from Woot last week, which I intend to use as a server. I was kind of excited, because although I intended to wipe the ... Read more..Ouch! Microsoft fined $1.35 BILLION by the European Union for anticompetitive practices
February 27th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The fine of 899 million euros is for Microsoft's failure to comply with a 2004 ruling and the "unreasonable" prices Microsoft charged developers for the information they needed to make ... Read more..Microsoft announces “new interoperability;” EU calls bullshit
February 22nd, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today Microsoft announced a "new interoperability." Microsoft promised, among other things, to open up cooperation with open source software, including distributing its APIs for its software and allowing open-source project ... Read more..Netherlands go open source!
December 31st, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Under a new Dutch law, the Dutch government must start using open source software by April 2008. In addition to the greater security and resistance obsolescence, open source software could ... Read more..“Vista capable” means you can boot Vista and stare at it
April 2nd, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Mouse Print dug up this gem from Dell's website, claiming that the baseline system requirements for a "Vista capable" computer means you can boot the operating system, but not run ... Read more..Jello.Dashboard: productivity tool for Outlook
January 29th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Be More Productive | No Comments »
Into Outlook? I have experimented with using Outlook as a case/matter-based organizer, but so far, I haven't been able to make it efficient enough to be worthwhile. For those who ... Read more..15 reasons to switch to Vista (well, as soon as SP1 comes out)
January 26th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
PC World today gives us "Windows Vista: 15 Reasons to Switch," which ends up sounding like Microsoft should have paid them off. Still, their reasons are pretty darn good. I want ... Read more..