Microsoft Censorship Clause Spreads to More Products
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Sun, Microsoft Clause Singles Out
Openoffice
Sun, Microsoft Clause Singles Out
Openoffice
09/16/2004 07:16 PMThe settlement of the decade has a clause in it that protects Sun's
desktop but not necessarily any of its OpenOffice brethren.
Microsoft clause "stifles innovation"
Microsoft clause "stifles innovation"
10/30/2003 12:34 PMThe European Commission has contacted unspecified hardware
manufacturers about Microsoft's licensing policy because it suspects
anticompetitive behaviour, it said today. Describing the move as a
"preliminary fact-finding stage", the Commission said it is acting in
response to concerns from companies about certain licensing conditions
that Microsoft attaches to its Windows operating system.
Sun-Microsoft OpenOffice clause not a
threat
Sun-Microsoft OpenOffice clause not a
threat
09/22/2004 11:47 AMSearchVB.com Sep 22 2004 3:24PM GMT
FTC to take Microsoft to task over
'unfair' contract clause
FTC to take Microsoft to task over
'unfair' contract clause
07/09/2004 10:03 PMAsahi.com Jul 10 2004 2:37AM GMT
Microsoft Judge Says Licensing Clause
Not Working
Microsoft Judge Says Licensing Clause
Not Working
01/23/2004 02:35 PMThe trial judge in the Microsoft antitrust case acknowledged Friday
one important provision in the settlement she approved isn't working
as well as expected, but she defended the agreement as otherwise
effective. MS said it is changing the way some prices are calculated
to a flat fee from a percentage of revenues.
Japan warns Microsoft about contract
clause
Japan warns Microsoft about contract
clause
07/13/2004 03:41 PMCTV.ca Jul 13 2004 7:13PM GMT
"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..."
"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..."
11/14/2003 04:05 PMJapan Asks Microsoft to Drop Contract
Clause
Japan Asks Microsoft to Drop Contract
Clause
07/14/2004 03:07 AMLos Angeles Times Jul 14 2004 7:44AM GMT
Japan warns Microsoft for 'restrictive'
contract clause
Japan warns Microsoft for 'restrictive'
contract clause
07/13/2004 03:15 AMZDNet Australia Jul 13 2004 7:55AM GMT
Japan warns Microsoft against
'restrictive' clause on electronics
contracts
Japan warns Microsoft against
'restrictive' clause on electronics
contracts
07/14/2004 01:30 AMeTaiwanNews.com Jul 14 2004 6:23AM GMT
Japanese authorities slap warning on
Microsoft for 'restrictive' contract
clause
Japanese authorities slap warning on
Microsoft for 'restrictive' contract
clause
07/13/2004 01:33 AMSan Francisco Chronicle Jul 13 2004 5:40AM GMT
It's Not Censorship As Long As We Don't
Call It Censorship
It's Not Censorship As Long As We Don't
Call It Censorship
06/22/2005 02:17 AMLooks like the porn police have kicked into high gear in Malaysia. The
government there has just said that
all cyber cafes must use web porn
filters. We assume this is being done for the sake of the
children, as all earnest anti-porn measures are, though the story
doesn't quite make clear what the real intention is. Still, as many
people pointed out when the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of
manda
tory filtering in libraries, the filters will cause many more
problems than they'll fix. Namely, they'll do a bad job of actually
blocking porn sites, they'll inadvertently
block
many reasonable and useful non-porn sites, and they'll be very
costly to implement. Even worse, the Malaysian mandate will be forced
on private businesses, not on free public computers in libraries. One
service provider quoted in the story says that it's only censorship if
filtering is done by the ISP, rather than software on the PCs -- where
the owner of the PCs gets to pick what filters to use. However, since
those filters are mandatory, it certainly seems to qualify as
censorship under most definitions we know. The really unfortunate
part is that, unlike millions of people in the US, many Malaysians
probably don't have a home computer they can fall back on when the
government goes overboard with useless filtering on publicly
accessible computers.
Microsoft spreads cheap Windows XP
Microsoft spreads cheap Windows XP
08/11/2004 08:12 AMZDNet Aug 11 2004 11:44AM GMT
Computer virus spreads to Microsoft
Internet browsers
Computer virus spreads to Microsoft
Internet browsers
06/26/2004 04:44 AMFloridatoday.com - Sat Jun 26, 06:22 am GMT
Fake Microsoft security update spreads
virus
Fake Microsoft security update spreads
virus
04/09/2005 02:55 PMIT Vibe Apr 9 2005 6:02PM GMT
SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample
SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample
11/16/2003 11:48 PMUse these sample files to create custom reporting forms. You can
create individual and summary status reports using an InfoPath form
library and a SharePoint site. These files include a custom template
that provide customized views of the form library.
MVPs keep bashing competition of
Microsoft (Linux, Symbian) and cajoling
users to get Microsoft products
MVPs keep bashing competition of
Microsoft (Linux, Symbian) and cajoling
users to get Microsoft products
01/28/2004 01:31 PMApparently Microsoft MVPs not only are helping users of Microsoft
products, but are also officially bashing Microsoft´s competition:
Robert Levy says that Windows Mobile from Microsoft is better than
Linux, because operators will earn less money with Linux (and thus
forgets one important factor: users don´t like to part with their
money very much): Linux is proclaiming "Pick me! I´ll decrease your
costs!" while Microsoft is getting right to the heart of the matter by
boasting "Pick me! I´ll increase your revenue." One offers to cut the
cost of each device by a few dollars. The other offers to increase the
amount of money customers pay to their carrier each month by a few
dollars. This doesn´t sound like a very difficult decision to me.
Anti-virus experts are watching a new
worm that spreads through Microsoft
Corp.'s MSN Messenger client
Anti-virus experts are watching a new
worm that spreads through Microsoft
Corp.'s MSN Messenger client
01/03/2004 07:05 AMeweek.com/article2/0,4149,1424750,00.asp
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Collegiality clause
Collegiality clause
05/20/2004 02:20 PMI’m thinking of doing something a little radical. Please tell me
if I’m all wet or not.
I believe, strongly, in three things:
1. Collegial competition is better than enmity. For instance, I have a
policy about not criticizing other feedreaders or their developers.
Illustrating distinctions is cool, but in a professional way. Saying
that X sucks or Y is stupid or Z is bad is not cool.
2. I like it when apps inter-operate; I like it when apps are
compatible. I like this as a user, because it means choice, and I like
it as a developer, because it means I can help make users happy, and
it means I can promote #1 above.
3. The above principles are related.
One of the things I’m most proud of in NetNewsWire is that I
documented the
clipboard
formats NetNewsWire uses, and that a bunch of other apps now
support those formats too. This means you can drag (or copy-and-paste)
headlines and feeds into those other applications. (It’s
possible, though I haven’t tested it, that other feedreaders
also generate the same formats, which is cool if true.)
Even though I know how it works, I still think of it as a form of
magic.
So here’s what I’m thinking...
In NetNewsWire 2.0 there will be a few more things like that clipboard
format, new things that I’ll document and encourage other
developers to support.
This makes it so apps are more compatible, so they can work together,
which makes users happy (and, frankly, delights me personally).
What I’m thinking is that I could put a collegiality clause in
the documentation of these formats. It would say something like this:
“By supporting this format, you agree that drawing distinctions
between your application and competing applications should be done in
a professional manner, and that expressing strongly negative,
subjective value judgments is not professional.”
Obviously, this isn’t something that could be enforced, but
it’s something, at least, a good step.
Millard Fillmore and Andrew Jackson
To show what I mean, let’s invent two feedreaders and their
developers.
Millard Fillmore has taken a wild approach—his app is a lot like
iCal. His idea is to emphasize the time-based element of feeds. It
includes full archives, going all the way to back to when you first
started using the app. Lots of people like it for its strengths as a
knowledge-management tool, though it’s not as good when it comes
to just skimming through the headlines as other feedreaders.
Andrew Jackson, on the other hand, took as his inspiration John
Norstad’s venerable NewsWatcher application. (Which, if you
weren’t a Mac user way back when, was a great Usenet
newsreader.) Jackson’s feedreader is great for skimming
headlines, but Fillmore’s app has more knowledge-management
features.
Both developers, in promoting their applications, could talk about the
different approaches in a professional way, recognizing that different
people have different needs.
Or they could go negative.
Fillmore writes, “Syndication is the TiVo of the Web.
Jackson’s brain-dead application takes no notice of that fact. I
can’t believe anybody uses that piece of crap.”
Jackson writes, “The whole point of syndication is to make it
easy to see what’s going on right now. Fillmore’s stupid
app, with its clunky calendar-based UI, totally gets in the way. I
can’t believe anybody uses that piece of crap.”
That’s the kind of stuff I don’t want to see. It’s
not only bad for the developers, it’s bad for users, since
Fillmore and Jackson are not going to work together on anything, which
means users don’t get the benefits of compatibility and
inter-operability.
Maybe I’m all wet...
I like the idea of promoting collegiality, but I’m not sure this
the way to do it. It’s just something I’m thinking
about.
I trust you’ll tell me if I’m nuts.
Security in Microsoft Products
Security in Microsoft Products
05/13/2004 06:23 AMALL Microsoft Products KB RSS Feeds
ALL Microsoft Products KB RSS Feeds
06/05/2005 11:36 PMIf we all hate microsoft and its
products so much then why a
If we all hate microsoft and its
products so much then why a
08/28/2004 04:48 AMTechTree Aug 28 2004 8:54AM GMT
Microsoft launches new products
Microsoft launches new products
04/27/2004 08:08 PMThe Hindu Apr 28 2004 0:22AM GMT
Brazil Leans Away From Microsoft
Products
Brazil Leans Away From Microsoft
Products
11/16/2003 11:49 PMRed Nova Nov 16 2003 11:21PM ET
Microsoft to drop older products
Microsoft to drop older products
12/08/2003 11:48 AMThe software maker says it is retiring several of its older products,
including Windows 98, to comply with a court order related to Sun
Microsystems and Java.
Microsoft, Polycom Team Up on Products
Microsoft, Polycom Team Up on Products
09/14/2004 08:57 AMSiliconValley.com Sep 14 2004 1:26PM GMT
New Microsoft Products Aim to Take
Ground From Phones
New Microsoft Products Aim to Take
Ground From Phones
03/14/2005 06:16 PMMicrosoft introduced three software products on Tuesday that are
intended to blur the lines between traditional phones and computer
networks within corporations.
Microsoft to ditch older products
Microsoft to ditch older products
12/09/2003 03:44 PMCNET Dec 9 2003 2:39PM ET
Microsoft readying RFID products
Microsoft readying RFID products
06/24/2004 11:00 PMZDNet Australia Jun 25 2004 2:59AM GMT
Microsoft Discontinuing WiFi Products
Microsoft Discontinuing WiFi Products
05/10/2004 08:40 PMMicrosoft Corp. will sell through its line of broadband wireless
access products, after which the technology will be phased out.
Microsoft Releases SP1 for SharePoint
Products
Microsoft Releases SP1 for SharePoint
Products
09/02/2004 08:55 PMToday, Microsoft released SP1 for two SharePoint products, Microsoft
Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows® SharePoint
Services. Available as seperate updates the two updates provide
Windows SharePoint Services with support for larger files (share and
save docs as large as 2GB) & better update support. SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 is updated with improved searching and content
watson functionality (streamlined issue reporting better customers and
MS Dev team).
Windows SharePoint Services is a Web-based team collaboration
environment built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, a highly reliable
and manageable platform. Windows SharePoint Services allows anyone
with a Web browser to create and access virtual work spaces for
managing documents, discussions, lists, surveys and other important
contextual information such as team member status and presence.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 extends the
capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organization,
indexing and management tools for SharePoint-based sites and enabling
information captured in sites to be published to the entire
organization.
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SharePoint Portal Server SP1Read full story...MoD insists on computer meltdown clause
MoD insists on computer meltdown clause
01/03/2005 09:45 PMTelegraph Jan 4 2005 12:22AM GMT
Microsoft pledges longer support for
products
Microsoft pledges longer support for
products
05/25/2004 02:47 PMMicrosoft to drop products in Java
dispute
Microsoft to drop products in Java
dispute
12/08/2003 03:29 PMSilicon.com Dec 8 2003 12:54PM ET
Microsoft, Polycom team on collaboration
products
Microsoft, Polycom team on collaboration
products
09/14/2004 07:13 AMMicrosoft Corp. and Polycom Inc. have struck a multi-year agreement to
link Microsoft's Office Live Communications Server with Polycom's
conferencing products, the companies plan to announce Tuesday.
Microsoft products also vulnerable to
Mozilla flaw
Microsoft products also vulnerable to
Mozilla flaw
07/12/2004 03:51 PMBOSTON - Popular Microsoft Corp. products may be vulnerable to a
security vulnerability that is similar to one patched for the Mozilla
Web browsers last week.
Microsoft, Polycom team up on
conferencing products
Microsoft, Polycom team up on
conferencing products
09/13/2004 11:52 PMSan Francisco Chronicle Sep 14 2004 4:14AM GMT
Microsoft guarantees 10-year support for
products
Microsoft guarantees 10-year support for
products
06/01/2004 05:31 AMComputer Weekly Jun 1 2004 9:20AM GMT
Microsoft launch new line of Hardware
products
Microsoft launch new line of Hardware
products
09/08/2004 09:14 AMMicrosoft's hardware division, unlike some of its others, has rarely
received criticism for the products they release. Always slick, always
working well, Microsoft have always done their Hardware well. Today,
Microsoft are updating the line with a variety of newly designed
models.
The main element to the update is the addition of finger print
technology. Tried by other hardware makers, the technology hasn't
really had much attention asides from high-end, security critical
systems; with backing from a big player (the player?) the technology
could go mainstream. Microsoft are integrating the technology into
their hardware and software solutions, allowing users to give prints
rather than passwords. A good move, increasing security and decreasing
hassle for end users, as well as being pretty cool. No doubt, a
popular addition to the hardware line. You can get the reader as a
stand alone device (see screenshots below), or on an Optical Desktop
with Fingerprint Reader, or finally on a Wireless IntelliMouse
Explorer with Fingerprint Reader.
Microsoft have never had a specific product out for mobile users mouse
wise; they've changed this with the new line up. A cleverly designed
wireless optical mouse with a receiver that snaps away when not in
use. Microsoft claim to have 3 yards (~ 1 metre) range, which is
probably sufficient for most situations. They also claim to give users
3 months of usage on one set of batteries, a big increase on current /
previous wireless mices - this claim is made across the range of new
mice, and one would congratulate the hardware team if they've pulled
it off; Many users are deterred from wireless products due to the cost
of having to replace batteries regularly.
Elsewhere, they've redesigned the keyboards with better curves, new
buttons, and of course, finger print readers. The new models claim to
have 6 months life before needing a battery check up - no too shabby.
Further, the Wireless Optical Desktop and the new Digital Media Pro
Keyboard feature a new Zoom Slider that lets users quickly and easily
zoom in and out of images and documents. Talking of sliders, the new
range of mice all feature the '4 directional' mouse wheels (
tilt wheel technology) that Microsoft
introduced last year, allowing you to scroll left / right as well as
up / down. The Bluetooth option is similar in design, and is
functional with other Bluetooth enabled devices up to 10 metres away.
It also works as a Bluetooth base station.
All in all, a pretty good new line up. Microsoft have added some new
features and have updated designs to keep them competitive with
other vendors. We'll take a look at some of
the new gear closer up, later in the year. The products will be
available in 2005; for estimated prices click "read
more".
Screenshot:
New Finger Print Reader |
New Optical Desktop |
New Optical Mouse
Screenshot:
New Optical Keyboard |
New Bluetooth Desktop (KB + Mouse)
Screenshot:
Wireless Notebook Optical |
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