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Submission + - De Icaza regrets Novell/Microsoft pact (thestandard.com)

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Ian Lamont
Ian Lamont writes: "Novell Vice President and GNOME architect Miguel de Icaza sounded off at a MIX 08 panel on a number of topics. First, he claimed that he was 'not happy' with Novell's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, saying that if he had his way, the company would have stayed with the open-source community. He also said that neither Windows nor Linux are relevant in the long term, thanks to Web 2.0 business models:

'They might be fantastic products ... but Google has shown itself to be a cash cow. There is a feature beyond selling corporate [software] and patents ... it's going to be owning end users."
He also tangled with Mike Schroepfer, a Mozilla engineering executive, about extending patent protection for Moonlight to third parties. However, de Icaza did say that Novell has done the best it could to balance open-source interests with patent indemnification."

Feed Engadget: Negroponte looking for CEO to replace him at OLPC (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Laptops

After a stay that's been anything but uneventful, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte has announced that he'll be stepping down as CEO of the organization, and that he's now searching for a successor, although he'll be staying on as Chairman. That word comes from an interview Negroponte gave to BusinessWeek, where he admitted that "management, administration, and details are my weaknesses," and even went so far as to say that the organization needs to be managed "more like Microsoft." He also revealed that the search for a new CEO had actually begun last year, but had ratcheted up in recent weeks, during which time the organization was also reorganized into four operating units, including technology, deployment, market development and fund-raising, and administration. No word on any contenders for the top spot just yet, but Nick Neg described the ideal candidate as someone with a "leadership profile similar to that of Kofi Annan," adding that he hopes to have the search concluded by April or May.

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Microsoft

Submission + - Hole in Windows XP Pro (tmpco.com)

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Timothy Thomas Payne - of Seattle, WA USA
Timothy Thomas Payne - of Seattle, WA USA writes: "The guy that has been harassing me for more than 2 weeks has pointed out a big hole in XP. I called Microsoft 3 times and told them the problem : case # 1060485863 they blew me off. Now they have called me 3 times asking to help me, I blew them off. I thought the Seattle times would be happy to have the story. The guy that covers Microsoft suggested that I post it on their blog, I offered a hard drive, dirty but working XP box, CD of log files. Too much work to look at it. I called Google, just a few miles away in Kirkland, the snotty little girl thought I was a loon. Refused to even look at anything. No one cares about the millions of users that don't know."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Entices New Users With Cash

Submitted by Alpha232
Alpha232 writes: Microsoft Entices New Users With Cash

Microsoft Corp. raked in tens of billions of dollars selling software last year.
Now, it's giving away a sliver of that — $100,000, plus prizes — to entice people to try a new, free program.
Office Live Workspace, a Web hub for document sharing, was first announced as a limited test late last year. Starting this week, anyone can sign up to store word processing documents, spreadsheets and other files in a Live Workspace of his or her own. Users can share access to the files with friends, who can use a Web browser to read them and make comments.
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Microsoft is betting computer users are so attached to the sophisticated features in Office that they'll continue to shell out for desktop software rather than defect to a free alternative.

Now wouldn't it be fitting if the "Winner" of the $100,000 was using OpenOffice to create their documents.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Employees Secretly Endorse Slashdot !?! (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In the PDF File For Webslices You'll See Slashdot Right Along Side The Video Highlights Oh And Speaking Of the new acid3 test IE 8 Scores a pitiful 16 and it Still Doesnt Properly Render the acid2 test
Microsoft

Submission + - MS censors comments on Singularity blog

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Tracy Reed
Tracy Reed writes: "I found out about Singularity via programming.reddit.com a day before it appeared on slashdot. I was the second post on the singularity site. Right after the current first post: "I'm glad Singularity has been released. When I first read about the project a year or so ago, I wondered what would become of it." I said that this isn't open source and that this is why I prefer Free Software and that the confusion of Free as in freedom vs free as in cost is better than the confusion over open source you can't actually do anything with. They have deleted my post. Bastards. The current second post which says "Please do not worry about the "free software" demands. I'm very pleased to see the source of the (hopefully) next windows kernel." was in reply to my post about free software. Sleezy. Just sleezy. And this is why I don't do business with them."

Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source 392

Posted by CmdrTaco from the it-pulls-me-in dept.
Alex_Ionescu writes "Microsoft's Singularity operating system (covered previously by Slashdot) is now open to the public for download, under a typical Microsoft academic, non-commercial license. Inside is a fully compilable and bootable version of what could be the basis for the future of Windows, or maybe simply an experiment to demonstrate .NET's capabilities. Singularity, if you'll recall, has gained wide interest from researchers and users alike, by claiming to be a fully managed code kernel (with managed code drivers and applications as well), something that would finally revolutionize the operating system research arena. The project is available on CodePlex."
Microsoft

Submission + - Brussels to probe votes on Microsoft standard

Submitted by spectrokid
spectrokid writes: Officials at the European Commission's competition directorate have written to members of the International Organisation for Standardisation, asking how they prepared for votes in September and this month on acceptance of Microsoft's OOXML document format as a worldwide standard. Without ISO acceptance, Microsoft could stand to lose business, particularly with government clients, some of which are becoming increasingly keen to use only ISO-certified software.
Microsoft

Submission + - EC are looking into the OOXML process.

Submitted by Landreth
Landreth writes: It seems the the European Commission are getting interested in how the International Organisation for Standardisation are handling the entire OOXML process. The EC has sent the ISO organisation a letter asking "how they prepared for votes in September and this month on acceptance of Microsoft's OOXML document format as a worldwide standard" according to Financial Times. This comes also days after that ISO made a fast track on accepting suggested changes that delegates have submitted the the ISO organisation.

Clearly the EC have no interest of Microsoft getting their foot into the documents business due to the recent fine that Microsoft has to cough up.
Microsoft

Submission + - Why Legacy Documentation Won't Help OOXML (robweir.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "It seems that some people have gotten the idea that the recent publication of some of Microsoft's binary formats makes it acceptable for OOXML to preserve old bugs in the form of application-defined behavior. But IBM's Rob Weir points to the 'Carolino Effect' for why that just won't help. For those wondering, Pedro Carolino was a man who tried to write a Portuguese/English phrase book when he didn't know English. Instead, he had a Portuguese/French phrasebook and a French/English dictionary, so he 'faithfully' translated each French word in the phrasebook into English with the dictionary. Which is, unfortunately reminiscent of the way Microsoft seems to think that implementers will be able to 'faithfully' represent these legacy-feature bugs in OOXML. So if you ever see an OOXML document filled with the XML equivalent of 'Here that it rouse. let aim it! let make fire him!' or 'Me, i have failed it; my gun have miss fixe,' you know who to blame."
Microsoft

Submission + - Tim Bray's list of reasons for and against OOXML

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "I [Tim Bray] hadn't really planned to become well-informed about OOXML, but I have. So I thought I'd build my own personal list of reasons for and against OOXML becoming an ISO standard." This story requires a RTFA call since Bray copyrighted his blog post and excerpts are not allowed (except the one given). I guess too much manipulation and misquotes has spun around in the OOXML at ISO BRM aftermath. Are you dizzy? Then read Tim Bray on OOXML.

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