Tag: Microsoft
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The Canonization of St.Bill
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Andrew Orlowski
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If William Henry Gates the Third’s philanthropic work leads to him being canonized one day as the first secular saint of our times, I won’t stand in the way of the celebrations. Geeks get things very out of proportion, and the value of saving even one life should be more apparent to everyone than the…
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Justice Dept slams ‘Machiavellian’ Microsoft
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Andrew Orlowski
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Vista’s fate foretold… by Machiavelli. A prophetic quote. trust settlement, and quoted Machiavelli to support its case for an extension to the monitoring program. As of 1 February, over 700 issues remained outstanding out of over 1,000 submitted to the monitoring committee, which was set up to ensure Microsoft keeps to its word in the…
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Bill Gates’ letter to hobbyists (en Français, 2006)
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Andrew Orlowski
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Free software doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as web hucksters. Not only is it a historical continuity of the way much of our software infrastructure has been developed, but it has encouraged commercial value to built through service models, or dual licensing. It’s a pity free software and open source advocates…
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The Internet Services Puddle
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Andrew Orlowski
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What Ray Ozzie’s strategic memo really says. Ever the master of public relations, Microsoft has always been able to figure its way out of a tight spot with the use of a judiciously leaked memo. Remember when AOL merged with Netscape back in 1998? Time to take a leak. Remember 2000, when Symbian was stealing…
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Microsoft: beating itself back to health?
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Andrew Orlowski
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It’s masochism fortnight at Redmond! Microsoft’s PR campaign of self-flagellation continues – with senior executives offering theWall Street Journal‘s Rob Guth an account of why Windows Vista will arrive so late and so incomplete. Thanks to the co-operation of Amitabh Srivastava, Brian Valentine, product manager Jim Allchin and even Gates himself – the Longhorn death…
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Bulwer-Lytton
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Andrew Orlowski
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A Microsoft employee has won the Oscar of bad prose – and no, he isn’t even a weblogger. Every year the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest honors the best attempts to parody bad fiction. It’s judged by Professor Scott Rice at San Jose State University in California, and is now in its 22nd year. It’s an impressive…