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LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 03-03-07
De...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista general ... What I can say with a fair amount of accuracy, after having used Vista for just over a year now .... It's easy to blame the government but the reality is anti-trust lawsuits aren't filled frivolously, it was a long time coming in both the US and the EU.

Dell Apparently Asks Intel for More Open Source Drivers ...
articleId=195200007&cid=ChannelWebNews How GPL fits in with the future of antitrust regulation ,----[ Quote ] | Perhaps when the court boldly declared that ..... Unsurprisingly, the various versions of Windows Vista are already | on that list. 14 people have gotten the ball rolling by tagging | "Microsoft Windows

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 04-03-07
Two analysts Thursday accused Microsoft Corp. of changing the meaning of "release candidate" by pushing out a version of Windows Vista that still needs ..... EU's Kroes denies vendetta against Microsoft ,----[ Quote ] | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes on Tuesday rejected | an accusation she was

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 24-03-07
Proprietary software vendors fail to stimulate the market (eg Vista) . Customers grow ever more tired of the upgrade treadmill (updated software that "needs" EU antitrust commission opposes the coercive "bundling" of Microsoft Windows by default. Set's legal precedent . Level playing field accomplished .

DFS slamdances on top of cola nuts all day and night
While it may strike many as odd that the European Union could order a company located in the United States to split up or otherwise modify its structure, ..... The OS was in need for a | refresh; however, moving to Windows Vista looked like an expensive option | largely on account of the increased hardware

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 09-10-06
If you don't like Vista anti-virus, you are out of luck. If you want some software that Microsoft doesn't ship with Windows, I hope you have a big limit on your credit card, because you are To be precise they claimed that Linux had 14% of the market in the US Antitrust trial, and 17% in the EU antitrust trial.

More on Vista
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060919/microsoft_eu.html?.v=3 Microsoft Hard-Balling EU Over Vista ,----[ Quote ] "This is part of the negotiating strategy," a person I don't like the fact that the report show us losing on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the fact that the reports says

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 05-02-07
The EU is building on its March 2004 decision that found Microsoft had violated EU antitrust rules by trying to damage rivals for server and media player software. It told Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without the Media Player software, to share communications code with rivals and pay a record $613

Vista prelim system requirements
... of Microsoft after the US software giant lost an appeal against an EU antitrust ruling. "A market level of much less than 95 percent would be a way of measuring success," European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told a news conference, referring to the market share of Microsoft's Windows operating system.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 22-05-07
Just 17 percent of IT professionals say they are considering rolling out Windows Vista in the first year. Forty-one percent of respondents said they had no ..... DbSMyep...@schestowitz.com> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> Subject: [News] Microsoft Dares to Appel EU Antitrust Ruling Date: Tue,

Visual Proof That Dell 'Punishes' Non-Windows Users
In Depth: Microsoft - Gartner: Microsoft Delay Could Affect Office Licensing Rights - Disable IE's Active Scripting To Protect Against Bug - Vista May Poses Danger To Security Product Vendors - Microsoft Gets A Little Help In EU Antitrust Battle - Third-Party IE Patches Moving Fast As Spam Attack Starts 6.

PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy? A Piece Of Shit!!!!!
Linux just keeps on getting better and better. Vista, pah! Nobody wants to know. Users want to downgrade back to XP. The writing's on the wall for MS. It has nowhere to go except more bloatware, further litigation, and having its collar felt by the EU antitrust people (no brown nosers, they). MM.

Weekly Statistics for comp.os.linux.advocacy. 2/24/2008
HvR7Sez...@schestowitz.com> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> Subject: [News] How Microsoft Uses Novell as 'Shield' in EU Antitrust Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:41:31 ..... http://bonaveo.net/2006/11/ensuring-windows-vista-adaption/ Add the bullying that's directed at Linux users at the moment (IP).

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 24-01-07
RSS&NewsID=7769 Windows Vista set to overwhelm helpdesks ,----[ Quote ] | The Windows Vista features that will most benefit end users are | likely to cause a flood of .... http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670 EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] | The Commission has been

Enterprise Windows: Sean Gallagher: Vista and Windows Server's ...
This allows them to see which users are using Linux exclusively, which users are using Windows exclusively, and which users are using some combination of In the DOJ Antitrust case, they suggested that Linux had 14% of the market, nearly 140 million users. In the EU Antitrust case, they upped the number to 17%.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 12-02-07
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060919/microsoft_eu.html?.v=3 Microsoft Hard-Balling EU Over Vista ,----[ Quote ] "This is part of the negotiating strategy," a person conducted by research firm IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, said Windows Vista will be installed on over 30 million personal computers in Denmark,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 06-07-07
Mentioned earlier: XP on 50% more PCs than Vista in 2007 ,----[ Quote ] Microsoft's now six-year-old Windows XP came with many more computers in 2007 than its http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9836456-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 IBM Faces EU Antitrust Complaint by Mainframe Maker [w/ Microsoft]

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 25-11-06
Many money burners (XBox, Zune, Web, antitrust, briberies, dumping) cannot be balanced by just one of two cash cows. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the major last hurrah for its Windows Vista operating entry and its Office 2007 suite of applications before the inevitable embrace of cheaper

Killing the Goose... Re: WGA Gets New 'Features'
Windows Vista is slated to have 6, plus 2 mandated by the EU for antitrust violations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista Windows Vienna (formerly BlackComb) is planned. It is not entirely clear how well any of them work, or will work. :-) -- #191, ewi...@earthlink.net Windows Vista.

OT: What Microsoft can do to fix Vista and help with the ...
's objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation. The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" ...... http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1218088,00.html Cisco exec: Windows Vista is scary ,----[ Quote ] | "Parts of