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DFS slamdances on top of cola nuts all day and night
But I was surprised the Redmondians would be so bold as to actually | embed Windows Live Messenger into Vista. After all the antitrust | lawsuits Microsoft has been http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu. reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote 'Microsoft broke anti-trust agreement,'

EU Launches New Microsoft Investigation
NoStop nos...@nospam.com microsoft public windows vista general wheelman wrote: for all of uncle bill gates dirty dealings and screwing us over on this defective "The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an antitrust order.

Linux Death Watch
It was slow, the OS wasn't as customizeable as I am used to in Windows, battery life was not very good, and I could cook breakfast on it after doing something processor-intensive. Hopefully this transition will be good for Apple. I think MS probably wants competition too, to keep US and EU antitrust actions at bay.

Microsoft's Masterpiece of FUD
Isn'ta new computer upgrade cycle on the horizon with Microsoft's impending release of its next-generation operating system for PCs, Windows Vista? .... EU Investigates Stifling of Competition in Microsoft Office Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:52:49 +0100 Kroes: EU Investigating Microsoft Office EU Antitrust Chief Says

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 28-03-07
Google Alerts googlealerts-nore...@google.com mycebuarchives Google News Alert for: *microsoft* EU Slaps Third Fine on *Microsoft* 's top officials struggled to make Windows Vista work smoothly when it was released, *...* See all stories on this topic

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 18-01-07
The move, inspired by the ongoing antitrust case against Microsoft in the European Union, shows the company finally acknowledging the significant impact open source Microsoft includes Windows Vista (including the .NET Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 06-03-07
Because of this several complaints have been put to the European Union asking them to investigate. This has been reported in the press (see ...... Qxen3gB...@schestowitz.com> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> Subject: [News] Windows Vista Cost is Lowered Amid Poor Sales Date: Mon,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 03-10-06
US Considers Bombing Zombie PCs (Windows) Attackers * [Humour] Windows Vista Slogans That Didn't Make the Cut * Excellent Ubuntu Installation Experience .... EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] The Commission has been investigating chip-maker Intel for six years to see if it acts

Opera CTO Slams Microsoft Again, ActiveX Banned in More Places
"Rivals such as Google and Adobe are wary of the new version of Windows, set for release early next year. "They could formally ask the Commission to act and it could order changes in Vista, following on its landmark 2004 antitrust decision that found Microsoft muscled out other companies...d "Competition

DFS slamdances on top of cola nuts all day and night
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. :-) They work for 96.97 percent of the OS market on the web,

microsoft fined 1.3 billion
Google Alerts googlealerts-nore...@google.com mycebuarchives Google Blogs Alert for: *microsoft* EU says it'll believe *Microsoft* is going open when it sees location for Windows Vista users is C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\*Microsoft*\Templates\Charts (C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application

PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy? A Piece Of Shit!!!!!
And boy oh boy, is it a beauty: "The Economic Impact of Microsoft Windows Vista". Vista may be the Hummer among OS'es: guzzling inordinate amounts of FWIW: ,----[ Quote ] EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes on Tuesday rejected an accusation she was pursuing a vendetta against US software giant Microsoft Corp. and

Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds...
For their parts Konqueror and Safari are making life interesting as well; the former is integral to KDE and the latter is in OSX, although available for Windows. Microsoft's failure to respond to its customers' outcry shows that it is time to call on established antitrust laws that allow governments to impose

[Humour] From Scum to Scum on Proxy Fights (Ellison to Ballmer)
EU extends Microsoft deadline on charges ,----[ Quote ] Microsoft Corp. now has until April 23 to respond to EU charges that it fails to offer rivals a fair ..... http://www.rfuz.com/reviews/software-reviews/microsoft-windows-vista-is- not-yet-ready-for-your-home-or-office-and-why.html http://tinyurl.com/2fua83 Here

Life of VB6?
Then the EU wanted to restrict MS from embedding a search engine in future Windows versions? MS said "Fuck you!" and rightfully so. If it gives me better results than Google or Alta Vista or Yahooo or Mamma I'll use it. If not, I won't. And if you notice, I left an "I" dangling at the end of the previous quote.

Software Donation: Is It a Donation at All?
They never said to "Get the Facts" against Windows. It was Microsoft that told its customers for four long years how bad Linux is...and then suddenly The real "hammer" driving the deal, was for use as a tool to use with the EU antitrust commission. How does that help? If anything, they would want to stay as far

Vista Could be Further Delayed, MS Could Blame Europe as an ...
We basically went through that kind of process already for Windows Vista. For example, there was a lot of scrutiny on the desktop search feature, While it's unknown if the EU Commission will care about standards as an antitrust issue, the bundling issue is very much more straightforward, as Mr. Vinje explains.

AMD's Desktop Market Share Approaches 30$, ATI to Provide ...
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LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 16-02-07
Since windows vista has recently launched, it would be a lot | different compared to xp, many Linux convert geeks would not have | experienced vista. .... report http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx? guid=%7bC96B4158-E6F5-47DB-8164-A9E9141F7C5F%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo EU antitrust experts seek charges

[Rival] Microsoft Analyst on Microsoft Approaching Debt
"Even a piece of junk will qualify" for the "Windows Vista Capable" designation, wrote one employee in an e-mail that Tilden read out loud. With multiple EU antitrust investigations, Ballmer has plenty to worry about. Many he should just retire like all his peers in the board room. Later this week a damaging