Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Microsoft: O Cloud, O Cloud, O Cloud
Bentley Radcliff, who used to work in marketing at Apple and Sun – no Microsoft fanboy he but curious about Redmond’s approach to the cloud – wanted to go to its Worldwide Partner Conference this week so we handed him a reporter’s notebook and sent him on his way. Miracle of miracle he returned impressed. [...]
Microsoft & Citrix Gang Up on VMware
Microsoft and Citrix got together Thursday to beat up VMware and warn it off their desktop turf. They position VMware as a server virtualization company with little skill or interest in the desktop that’s using View, its desktop virtualization product, as a “sweetener to sell server virtualization” and screwing up the customer and the VDI [...]
Amazon To Pay Microsoft’s Linux Tax
Microsoft and Amazon have signed a broad patent cross-license that Microsoft said covers Amazon’s e-book reader “Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers.” Facts being thin on the ground one is left to speculate that that means all of Amazon’s Linux-based servers everywhere including all [...]
Adobe & IE Implicated as China’s Spy Holes
A zero-day Acrobat security hole in the buggy Adobe Reader, software that’s on practically every PC in the world, may be how Chinese hackers pulled off the cyber-attack on Google that has Google threatening to pull out of China, the world’s largest Internet market, according to iDefense, the VeriSign managed security unit. McAfee, on the [...]
HP & Microsoft Set Off in Search of the Elusive Push-Button Cloud
Claiming to have struck the tightest, most deeply integrated relationship ever seen in the industry – apparently the next best thing to one of them acquiring the other – HP and Microsoft said Wednesday that together they’re going to pour $250 million over the next three years into a new cloud computing venture. Microsoft CEO [...]
The EC & Microsoft Contemplate Beating Their Swords into Plowshares
After 10 years of trench warfare and a body count of close to $1.8 billion in fines, the European Commission is getting ready to pass Microsoft the roach of concord and close the book on the case. The EC said Wednesday that a final settlement of the browser issue, Europe’s updated version of the old [...]
The Obese Penguin, How Like Windows
Linux creator Linus Torvalds said at LinuxCon this week that Linux is “getting bloated” and that “it’s a problem.” “I’d love to say we have a plan,” he lamented. “I mean, sometimes it’s a bit sad and we’re definitely not the streamlined hyper-efficient kernel that I had envisioned 15 years ago….The kernel is huge and [...]
Microsoft Starts Open Source Foundation
Well, I never. Microsoft has started a 501.c6 non-profit open source foundation, a bipolar strategy greeted by suspicion, hoots, catcalls, defamation and virtual mooning by the open source set. It’s called the CodePlex Foundation, which is not to be confused with Codeplex.com, Microsoft’s version of Sourceforge hosting a reported 10,000 projects. Microsoft is kicking in [...]
i4i Fallout Could Be Widespread
Concerns have been raised that Tuesday’s Great Word Injunction could beget a bunch of nasty children. i4i chairman Loudon Owen told Redmond Magazine, which got a more detailed audience with him than most – we got as far as the idea that Microsoft might get a stay, he went into a snit about “It’s our [...]
Microsoft Word Ordered Off the US Market
The notoriously plaintiff-leaning US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction Tuesday prohibiting Microsoft from selling any Microsoft Word products in the United States that “have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.” Microsoft, which means to appeal, must comply with the injunction [...]