It looks like the IT crowd will soon be able to have their cake and eat it, too.  A small concern named Open Document Foundation Inc. is releasing a plugin for Microsoft’s Office that allows read/write to ODF formatted files.  This gets rid of a roadblock on the way toward open office document formats, as […]

I can’t even bring myself to come up with a funnier article header than that.  And this isn’t even a humor post!  It’s from CNET, not The Onion.
Also the quote  “For Microsoft, we always want to be in the lead, making the breakthroughs,” Gates said.?  Priceless.  And here I thought they generally just glommed […]

Lester apparently is a little slow on the (er…) draw. LinuxWorld expo, run by sys-con Media, has always had a website hosted on Windows. That’s what you get when you’re running all your stuff centrally for a bunch of tradeshows. Whatever the others sites run on.
He seems to be having a lot […]

Microsoft has a surprise for “pirates” alright.  It’s a surprise involving the fact that there’s nothing to “pirate” in Vista.
If you were trying to stop people from infringing on your licensing scheme, what would you do? You’d disable the ability of said people to use your software, right? Or at least give it […]

Microsoft’s at it again.  This time Redmond is busy writing laws for Oklahoma that give it the ability to literally log in and do what they’d like to with your system.  All they need to do is include a clause in their license agreement that allows them to snoop through your computer at will.
Oklahoma’s lawmakers […]

Looks like Microsoft has secured another registrar to park domains on Windows Server because it (er…) provides the stability and scalability required.  No one parks domains like Microsoft, apparently.
In a way these registrars changing to Windows makes perfect sense.  These sites in particular have no real “value” and there is no BSD or Linux interest […]

Back in the halcyon days of Microsoft Paul Allen used to run the show.  According to Cringely his departure and subsequent divestiture of most of his Microsoft assets might be due to an overheard discussion of how best to divvy up his remains (that thankfully turned out to be a bit premature).
All this gets down […]

Appears that Microsoft believes it’s the paragon of virtue.  And that in not complying with the EU antitrust ruleing at all, it’s gone “far beyond” the remedies required…  without actually meeting them.
All that “code is good” flak coming from the OSS crowd (not the free software crowd, mind) appeares to be clouding their judgement.   From […]

Looks like it’s an MS news day.
Along with the news that Vista is being delayed (which you’ve probably heard by now) Smarthouse has word that MS is planning a total rewrite.
What scares me here is the thought process on the restructuring.  Down toward the bottom there’s a quote from one of the Microsoft head drones […]

While cruising around looking for newsworthy items to post on PCBurn I read through a few comments on the bottom of an article about Samsung and price fixing.
Now, this is a comment I’ve seen a few places.  People claim, in the presence of all evidence to the contrary, that Microsoft doesn’t/didn’t engage in unsavory colluding […]