Summary: A new push for the Web browser ballot to be deployed on all Windows installers/OEM PCs; other abuses of Microsoft in Europe
ECIS, which shed light on Microsoft’s crimes last year (scroll down to the appendix and also see this summary of crimes against Netscape in another appendix), has just suggested that Microsoft should take [...]

In a world without walls and fences – who needs windows and gates?!
Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows.
My SPARCstation has air condition. No need to open windows.
Windows 95 Source Code
Windows means “Work is never done on Windows systems”
Customer: I’m running Windows…
Helpdesk: Yes…
Customer: …and now my computer [...]

The open source ClamAV project is often used on servers as a way to scan and secure e-mail gateways and Windows file shares. Now ClamAV is coming to the Windows desktop too, by way of the cloud.
Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE) the lead commercial sponsor behind the ClamAV antivirus project, this week announced a new effort called [...]

Another day, another company developing Linux-based tech falls into line with Microsoft’s intellectual property wonks.
Japanese Flash maker I-O Data Device Inc has agreed to cough up an undisclosed sum of cash to Microsoft under a Linux software deal.
This is the latest such agreement Microsoft has made with a tech company that uses Linux in its [...]

Microsoft has warned Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a website, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE).
In a security advisory issued on Monday, Microsoft confirmed the unpatched bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy [...]

There is power in authority.
Microsoft’s strategy against open source uses authority. It ties up institutions that are authoritative, that have power over professions, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools.
I have covered this extensively at ZDNet Healthcare regarding products like Amalga and Healthvault, but here is an example [...]

Summary: Prostitution, orgies, drug use, and other shocking details about life at Microsoft
TWO years ago, Microsoft was visited by the authorities under unusual circumstances:
Microsoft Building Searched By Feds Investigating High-Priced Hookers
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Federal investigators executed a search warrant at Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif., offices [...]

Last week, David Coursey reported that Microsoft entertainment and devices boss Robbie Bach made the prediction in an analyst briefing that Linux on mobile will lose. Why? It’s choice is a bad thing for customers and that there is too much Linux in the mobile marketplace
By Bach’s count there are 17 variants of Linux available [...]

Microsoft isn’t having an easy time of it these days. In addition to the unpatched hole in Internet Explorer, a now published hole in Windows allows users with restricted access to escalate their privileges to system level – and this is believed to be possible on all 32-bit versions of Windows from Windows NT 3.1 [...]

Two interesting tidbits of news about Microsoft today. First is that the company is to make it legal to rent both Windows and Office. The second is an analysis on how slates will affect the Redmond giant’s bottom line. Both are interesting reading, but both also are indications of the problems that Microsoft is likely [...]

Summary: It is not Google’s fault but Microsoft’s fault that China managed to compromise accounts not just of Google but of over 20 other companies, by Microsoft’s own admission
YESTERDAY we mentioned Google’s reaction to attacks from China, which are now confirmed to be targeting different companies. It was not something against Google as Google is [...]

Another week, another example of how Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of OpenOffice.org as the 2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org’s increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. Directions on Microsoft [...]

Those who buy a computer in most countries with Windows and do not accept the terms of licensing have to pay for the unused license(s). The procedure is complicated and inconsistent. In Italy, a group forming a collective complaint seeks to bring order to this chaos.
A change of regulations in Italy as of the first [...]

Those who buy a computer in most countries with Windows and do not accept the terms of licensing have to pay for the unused license(s). The procedure is complicated and inconsistent. In Italy, a group forming a collective complaint seeks to bring order to this chaos.
A change of regulations in Italy as of the first [...]

Microsoft is up to its old tricks in the new year, as evidenced by a recent job posting for anti-FOSS personnel. This time, the thing that has Redmond sweating is what appears to be a mass migration of students to OpenOffice. And why wouldn’t they? “It’s free-as-in-beer and good enough — much better than the [...]

First branded as a communist plot, then derided as a form of cancer, before being upgraded to merely a ‘grey spectre’, free and open source software (FOSS) has had a pretty rough ride from Microsoft over the years. For many in the open source community, the company represents all that is troubling about closed source [...]

Steve Balmer, the CEO of Microsoft gets pretty scared by the success of Linux & other Open Source Software. Microsoft wants to hire a so-called “Linux and Open Office Compete Lead”, as the job description in one their recent marketing job ads shows.
The language used in this ad shows the typical Microsoft marketing strategy, endorsed [...]