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LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 02-05-07
As you say - you get what you pay for, and a lot of folk are dumb enough to believe that Windoze/Vista is cheaper than the alternatives (not true) and as good (ABSOLUTELY not true). It is much cheaper than the alternative. I can hire an admin off the street and put them in front of a computer with Windows and they

More Leopard Failures Demonstrated
In August of that year, Microsoft management told his staff he was taking a new job within the company after shipping Windows Vista. showed that it had given up (hello, Samba) and put all its horses on software patents and BS like Silverlight and OOXML, _BOTH OF WHICH_ are under EU antitrust scrutiny.

Phony Controversy
In stark contrast Microsoft have just released Windows Vista, probably the most resource hungry Operating System ever, for | the PC platform. ...... Cuomo is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust | laws by coercing customers to exclude its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices | (AMD),

A brief history of Internet Explorer
It won't matter because 99.9 percent of desktop PC's shipped from places like Dell etc will come pre-loaded with Vista anyhow. but watching the Linux kooks scrambling to discredit and don't give a toss about it? Oh MS most certainly does affect non-Windows users, as I'm sure the EU antitrust commission can testify.

US vs EU: Microsoft
Two analysts Thursday accused Microsoft Corp. of changing the meaning of "release candidate" by pushing out a version of Windows Vista that still needs major work ..... EU's Kroes denies vendetta against Microsoft > > ,----[ Quote ] > | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes on Tuesday rejected > | an

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 17-10-06
... was already up and running and used by the Intel validation team to successfully boot a test system into Windows Vista, Windows XO, Mac OS X and Linux. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] The Commission has

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 18-02-07
Mark Kent mark.k...@demon.co.uk comp os linux advocacy In today's digest, we have: * Windows Vista Market Share Less Than 1% * New Network Appliance Runs ...... EU's Kroes denies vendetta against Microsoft ,----[ Quote ] | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes on Tuesday rejected | an accusation she

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 03-02-07
37 18 [News] [Rival] Windows Server 2008 is Vista, aka Windows MEv2 38 18 When competing on quality ... 39 17 ping roy: small/tiny computers 40 17 Proof Of NET Problem 117 3 [News] [Rival] Wintel's Antitrust Case in Europe Proceeds 118 3 [News] [Rival] Crime Inside Microsoft, Microsoft Manager to Face Up to 20

Microsoft Dares to Appel EU Antitrust Ruling
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 .... could lead to the exclusion of competitive products from the market and violate European Union rules, according to the authority known as the GVH.

DFS slamdances on top of cola nuts all day and night
"We have worked hard to include partners and competitors in our planning so they can build products and services that work with Windows Vista." In a letter last week to Microsoft (MSFT), EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes expressed her latest concerns that if Vista comes bundled with integrated new functions like

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 26-02-08
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670 EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] The Commission has been investigating ...... However, the Photosynth website says at the system requirements: Only | Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RC1 or later are supported at this | time.

[Rival] Microsoft Lies to Employees and the Press to ...
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] The Commission has been ...... Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves | and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft' | latest Windows Vista

[Rival] Ugly Truth About Windows Vista from Microsoft's ...
Despite the fact that Vista still has to be widely accepted in the enterprise, and news that standalone sales have been well behind those of Windows XP's during the same point in its lifecycle--59.7%, according to That, coupled with Microsoft's settlement with the EU over antitrust violations, has created an .

Weekly Statistics for comp.os.linux.advocacy
Ce la spiega Angelo Falchetti, cofondatore e chief operation officer di Emanuele Quintarelli http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2008/02/04/19/200802041901 Salvate Xp, Microsoft risponde alla petizione online Molti utenti di Windows Xp non vogliono passare a Vista e chiedono con una petizione che Xp resti in vendita

Why Are Linux Users Afraid OF Vista? What's all this [News] stuff?
Windows Vista "The Last Straw" * Windows Deactivates Self; Error Message Bugs; Mouse Needs Persmission for Use * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is Just a Week ...... EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source ,----[ Quote ] | The Commission has been investigating chip-maker Intel for six years | to see if it

openDemocracy Editorial
In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state prosecutors to reject a Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop search program, lawyers involved in

[SOT] Astroturfing and Propaganda from Telecoms Against the ...
Alias iamal...@removethisgmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Frank wrote: Alias wrote: Frank wrote: NoStop wrote: Mike Hall - MVP wrote: Did you see what the EU did to your precious Microsoft for not playing according to the anti trust rules? The fine is over a billion of your wimpy dollars.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 09-02-07
After numerous delays, Microsoft's next-generation Windows Vista operating system is to make its debut with home computer users on Tuesday (January 30) after The European Commission is unlikely to open a new antitrust front against Microsoft over Vista before the EU court gives its decision on the regulators'

Google Alert - microsoft
Mark Kent mark.k...@demon.co.uk comp os linux advocacy Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> espoused: Major labels 'face DoJ antitrust probe' ,----[ Quote .... The fact of the matter is that Windows Vista has delivered a heavy blow to software counterfeiters. The reason for this is the new Windows Genuine

Opera CTO Slams Microsoft Again, ActiveX Banned in More ...
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/12630 Can Mac OS X and Windows Vista do everything this obscure Linux distribution does? .... against Intel: 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 vs Intel-source