Reuters
came out this week
with rather a splashy story saying that the Free
Software Foundation is considering, as some sort of retribution for the
big deal with Microsoft, banning Novell from selling its Linux distribution.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 06, 20070 comments
In
Pirates of Silicon Valley
, the epic late-‘90s TV movie about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, power, passion and pocket protectors, Anthony Michael Hall's Gates bellows at Noah Wyle's Jobs during a heated discussion, "I got the loot, Steve!"
Uh, not so fast, fictional Bill. Apparently one analyst thinks that
Apple could be generating more revenue than Microsoft
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 30, 20070 comments
After a long, hot summer of pressure from investors, Steve Ballmer has to enjoy the cool, soothing sensation of a
rebounding stock price
, which appears to have the potential
to keep rising
.
Not to be left out, Apple, stock-backdating scandal and all,
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 18, 20070 comments
Supposedly, if we believe the folk tales and lore of our parents and grandparents, the American work day used to last eight hours. “9 to 5” (cue
Dolly Parton
) was the way we made a livin’. With a break for lunch, of course, and maybe some talk around the water cooler -- which has since been replaced by the Internet message board, but our editor doesn’t need know that. (And, speaking of anachronisms, your author used to have the theme song from
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 18, 20071 comments
Man, talk about clunky ... the new
Microsoft comic strip
-- yes, you just read those last three words -- promoting Office 2007 makes Redmond’s laptop giveaway look iPodian in its marketing brilliance.
Microsoft does many, many things right ... but Enchanted Office is ... well ...
judge for yourself
Posted by Lee Pender on January 04, 20070 comments
Mike wrote in back in December to offer his predictions for 2007: “Let’s see: Flying cars, teleportation devices (Jaunt Stations for Stephen King fans), and a 25 percent migration to Vista. Why not aim high?”
Well, Mike, you’ll probably achieve a level of accuracy with those predictions that most analysts could only dream of, even if Vista has been (surprise!) a little slow to penetrate the enterprise so far.
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 04, 20070 comments
Don't even bother combing your hair if you're in Seattle this week. The swirling,
gusty winds that have been howling here all week will just make a mess of it,
anyway. And if the wind doesn't muss your 'do, the hard, seemingly incessant
rain will. (Yeah, it's Seattle -- but even the locals say that this is bad.)
The hanging gray skies and electricity-killing Microsoft just had a brownout
-- storms here make the atmosphere in this otherwise beautiful area almost miserable
enough to make a Bostonian stop complaining about a New England winter. Almost.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 14, 20060 comments
Well, maybe not, but
this
is a pretty interesting story, anyway.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 21, 20060 comments