Nick and Greg are right. If you want to kill Google (not that this would be a good thing) you need to go after their air supply. Google is doing this to Microsoft with their online office suite. Microsoft makes the bulk of their cash from MS Office and Google is trying to choke them [...]
Categories: linux,microsoft,open source
There’s been a lot of talk today about the end of the Microsoft tax. If you bought a desktop PC from Dell, you got — and paid for — a copy of Windows, whether you wanted it or not. This is commonly referred to as “The Microsoft Tax”. It was NEVER a tax – it [...]
Categories: linux,microsoft,open source
Microsoft is finally throwing down the gauntlet. Apparently, they’re now saying that Linux violates hundreds of software patents: But now there’s a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it’s being cast by Microsoft. The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more [...]
Categories: linux,microsoft,open source
The privacy implications of Google are starting to become really frightening. Gmail, Calendar, Search, Chat. They could (if they wanted) spy on nearly every aspect of my life. How do we know that this isn’t happening right now? The Patriot Act blocks companies from disclosing the fact that information has been given to the government. [...]
This last week there’s been a great deal of talk about Microsoft’s theft of RSS technology which has been available to the public in various forms over the last few years. I’m all in favor of technology patents that are actually innovative. There are situations where a company spends time and effort developing a technology [...]
Categories: firefox,internet,microsoft,mozilla,patents,startups,web2.0
Niall Goatse’d Microsoft:One Microsoft group received a rather harsh lesson in Creative Commons licensing today: For a while this morning, Microsoft’s RSS Team Blog featured a partially censored pornographic image, which has since been removed.How did it get there in the first place?… But when Kennedy saw that the blog was using that image without permission, he replaced the photo in his account with another one he found online, making that unsavory image appear smack in the middle of the Microsoft RSS blog.I told him he should threaten to sue Microsoft for using his copyrighted work without permission.
Categories: microsoft
If you buy links you’ll get kicked off MSN search:Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links with sites unrelated to your site content. Techniques which attempt to acquire unrelated spam links in order to increase ranking are considered spam and your site has been excluded from our index as results.
There are only five tickets left for Widgets Live. I got in right under the radar.
Categories: microsoft,startups,technology,web2.0