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Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple 479

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:16PM from the airing-the-dirty-laundry dept.

Overly Critical Guy writes to mention that more documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considered dumping the Mac Office Suite entirely in a move to harm Apple. "The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time. It describes dumping development of the product as: 'The strongest bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately.' The document also confirms that Microsoft at the time saw Office for the Mac as a chance to test new features in the product before they appeared in Windows, 'because it is so much less critical to our business than Windows.'"

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Submission + - OSX Leopard to make Mac accounts portable

Submitted by Colin Burrows on Monday February 05, 2007 @05:03PM

Colin Burrows writes: OSX Leopard looks like it'll make user accounts portable. Any Mac will look and feel like your own, wherever you access it. T3 says "users' settings could be stored centrally, so every Mac can load your individual preferences and home directory...What's more, as Leopard's Time Machine works with removable drives there's the possibility of accessing any file you've ever made on any Mac, from any machine you like."

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Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? 479

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 05, 2007 @04:48PM from the leave-it-to-business-to-ruin-a-good-time dept.

BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology, especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the internet was based on. "The freedom of expression that was once available to users of the Internet Protocol is being stripped away. Our freedom to play, experiment, share and seek inspiration from the creative works of others is increasingly restricted so that large companies can lock our culture down for their own profit. [...] governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an 'architecture of control.'"

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Submission + - Why Craigslist won't run ads

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Monday February 05, 2007 @02:56PM

prostoalex writes: "USA Today interviews Jim Buckmaster, CEO of popular online classifieds site CraigsList. The company currently has 23 employees, never paid a single dime to advertise itself, but nevertheless is 9th most popular Web site in the US (USA Today quotes Alexa). Viewed as a major factor in declining newspaper subscriptions, CraigsList has this to say: "On the charge of "stealing" ads from newspapers, Buckmaster remains quietly unapologetic. The big newspaper chains continue to be about twice as profitable as the average American business, he says, "so it's not as though they're hurting." Newspapers have become "beholden to Wall Street," he says. "The primary focus is not necessarily on journalism; it's on maximizing revenue.""

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Submission + - 25 Terrifying IT Horror Stories

Submitted by

colleesu

on Friday November 03, 2006 @10:03AM

colleesu writes: "In time for Halloween, CIO (a mag for Chief Information Officers) has published this: "Not for the Squeamish! Witness 25 of the worst IT debacles! So many IT specters in one place could give you nightmares, but those with courage enough to read on will learn from the horrible mistakes of others." They've organized the entries according to: Enterprise Resource Planning; Big Government; Acts of God (and others); Bad Decisions; and, Miscellaneous."

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Democrats May Promise Broadband for All 836

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 16, 2006 @09:05AM from the it's-all-flowers-and-sausages dept.

andyring writes "According to CNS News Service, the Democrat Party will have an agenda that guarantees every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years as part of their 2006 election year agenda, according to Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader. Absent, of course, are any details as to how they will accomplish it when they are the party out of power in Congress."

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Nanotube Paint Blocks Cell Phones on Demand 679

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @02:02PM from the special-hell-for-people-who-talk-at-the-theater dept.

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Newsday is reporting on a new nanotube paint that is able to block cell phone signals on demand. The nanotubes are filled with copper, suspended in paint, and can be applied to the walls and ceiling of places such as concert halls, churches, and classrooms."

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