Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) If you thought the whole Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn fandango was twisted and ugly before, well, it just got worse. Over the last three days these clowns have been eye-poking and face slapping like The Three Stooges -- sans the sophistication. ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) On this 4th of July weekend, let us celebrate the independence of Yahoo -- for however long it lasts. Because just when you thought Microsoft's bid for the Yahooligans was really truly deeply ultimately finally over, it really ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
It turns out the reports of XP's death may be slightly exaggerated.
Sure, the obits have been posted and the requiems are being sung. The fat lady has already packed up her girdle and gone home with a bucket of KFC. ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld.com.) It feels strange writing this. Starting today, I won't have Bill Gates to kick around anymore. (Or, given that he still plans to visit the Redmond campus once a week, I'll only have 20 percent of him to kick around.) Of all the ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
So there's a lot of news this week about the 'death' of Windows XP. (I'll have more thoughts on that later.) For now, though, let's pretend just for fun that you could pick any operating system for your next PC -- no monolithic monopolies can get in your way. Which ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Microsoft's cofounder says he'll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them.
(A version of this post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
For more than 30 years he has roamed ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) It's over, finito, kaput. The fat lady hasn't merely stopped singing, she's taken off her girdle and waddled home. There are now so many forks stuck into the Microsoft Yahoo deal that it looks like a cutlery display. ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Personally, I'm not convinced that this whole thing is truly over. But is Yahoo's partnership with Google better than its partial or complete takeover by Microsoft? Take this BuzzDash poll and tell the world.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
(This entry originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Slouching toward Cupertino. It's not every day the Second Coming gives you advance notice, but the resurrection of the Jesus Phone -- in 3G, for the first time ever! -- is now (unofficially) slated for June 9. Or so says ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Don't look now, but there's a secret cabal at work conspiring to lock you out of the public Internet. That, at least, is the hyperventilated opinion of Robert Scoble, who not so long ago was just another Microsoft ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Windows holes, Google food, aging tunesmiths, cranky billionaires, Tony Soprano, and -- yes -- the ghost of MicroHoo dominate this week's quiz. Are you ready to demonstrate your geek street cred? Give yourself 10 points for correct answers and bupkis for everything else. Ready? Then let's rock and roll.
-- Dan ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
(This screed originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) I think, therefore Icahn. Just when you thought the Yahoo-Microsoft deal was kaput, in steps everyone's least favorite uncle Carl Icahn to muck things up. In a letter to the Yahoo board, the curmudgeon billionaire scolded board members, ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) One ring to rule them all. Remember that scene in The Lord of the Rings where Sauron has all the Orcs busy sharpening tools and digging up Goblins in preparation for the huge battle to decide the fate ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely Great eXPectations? Microsoft has made a multi-billion-dollar business out of spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but lately it seems to be sharing the FUD about its own products. Take the burning question of ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely Just in case you've suddenly emerged from a coma and hadn't noticed, yesterday was Earth Day here on our planet. And it seems like everybody is putting on their green. Even the US ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
(This post originally appeared in and/or on Infoworld's Notes from the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely The international movement to save endangered operating systems (aka Windows XP) has gained supporters in unlikely quarters. Cringester J. C. reports: Just got a call from my ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Blunder Road. A Microsoft music video by "Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band" has been causing a few chuckles and a lot of retching across the Net. In the video, a Born in the USA-era Springsteen ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
That creaking sound, the dust, that feeling of vague but imminent doom? It's not an earthquake. Your office isn't falling into a sink hole. It's the warning signs of Windows collapsing.
According to a presentation served up last ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Full speed behind. It seems the rumors of XP's death have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft has bowed to overwhelming demand and decided to give XP a reprieve, kinda sorta. Scheduled to get the gas chamber in July, ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in InfoWorld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
By Robert X. Cringely
It seems impossible, but in a few short months we will no longer have William H. Gates III to kick around anymore. The God of Windows is stepping away from his day-to-day responsibilities in June to become ...
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