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Microsoft has always done an an exceptional job of bringing the cost and complexity of software down to the level of the average person (or IT department, if you will). I may have my problems with some of the company's business practices, but th
A protester calling for free computer software and open source programming crashed a speech Friday by Bill Gates at Beijing University. Gates had just finished a speech at Beijing University and was handing out prizes to students when a man walked on
I admit that I have a Crackberry addiction. In fact I have to make sure that I don't look at it for hours on end lest I lose complete control. So when the network went down I was OK for a few hours, then my thumbs started to shake uncontrollably
I have to admit that I am impressed and somewhat surprised that Michael Dell runs Linux at home. Good for him. Specs below: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn VMWare Workstation 6 Beta OpenOffice.org 2.2 Automatix2 Firefox 2.0.0.3 Evolution Groupware 2.10 (this
By deepening the relationship with the Linux distributor, Sun hopes to make its Java technology more accessible to Linux developers
OSA aims to increase businesses' use of open-source software with Common Customer View project
Pentaho is going places. By integrating its Reporting product into OpenOffice, it's actually going lots of places. Tens of millions of them. As announced today,With the integration of Pentaho’s reporting engine and the new OpenOffice.org R
Well, Microsoft never committed to play fair. The company has entered into two more patent agreements with Fuji and Samsung, as reported by Matthew Aslett. As ever, Microsoft doesn't actually say there are any IP infringement problems with Linux
And Microsoft had been doing so well vis-a-vis open source. Well, for a few days, anyway. I still think the company has a lot of opportunity in open source, but it's aggravating to watch the constant backsliding. Case in point: Hugh MacLeod'
Update to open-source e-mail client improves how users can organize and label their messages