Comment Shortest summary ever? (Score 1) 288
Talk about brevity.
Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 652
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release — and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft officials were already worried about comparisons between Mac OS X and Vista. An e-mail thread from October 2005 showed that an article in the Wall Street Journal by Walt Mossberg grabbed the attention of managers at Microsoft. In a column headlined What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade, Mossberg alarmed one Windows manager who forwarded a bit from the column.... 'You won't have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer's Macintosh computers, which don't run Windows,' Mossberg had written. 'Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger, is better and more secure than Windows XP, and already contains most of the key features promised for Vista.' Warrier added a comment of his own: 'A premium experience as defined by Walt = Apple. This is why we need to address [the column].'"
Submission + - SCO loses - finally 1
An anonymous reader writes: The one summary judgement that puts a stick into SCO's spokes has just come down. SCO doesn't own the Unix copyrights. With that one decision, a whole bunch of other decisions will fall like dominoes. As PJ says, "That's Aaaaall, Folks!".
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most: [T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights. That's Aaaaall, Folks! If anyone can please put this into text for us, that'd be simply great.
Submission + - Open Letter to Netflix Management - No Mac Support (digitalrealitydesign.net)
drcomp writes: "Hello /. Team,
Thanks for a great site which I read daily. I have composed an open letter to Netflix regarding their lack of support for any platform outside of Internet Explorer 6/7 for Windows. I detail their potential lost business, but more importantly, the effect on consumer choice that a company as large as Netflix can have on the community. I go one step further to express how lack of consumer choice keeps companies such as Microsoft producing inferior software, because they know that 'they can.'
Thanks for considering it — hopefully exposure on /. could bring this issue to light and get some things done. Letter is here.
Best,
Eric Catania
Member, Apple Consultants Network
Owner, Digital Reality"
Thanks for a great site which I read daily. I have composed an open letter to Netflix regarding their lack of support for any platform outside of Internet Explorer 6/7 for Windows. I detail their potential lost business, but more importantly, the effect on consumer choice that a company as large as Netflix can have on the community. I go one step further to express how lack of consumer choice keeps companies such as Microsoft producing inferior software, because they know that 'they can.'
Thanks for considering it — hopefully exposure on
Best,
Eric Catania
Member, Apple Consultants Network
Owner, Digital Reality"
Submission + - Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam Show?
saudadelinux writes: AT&T cut 15 seconds of some impromptu, non-obscene, non-threatening anti-George Bush lyrics sung by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, during a Lollapalooza web broadcast. AT&T insists it was a mistake, but it does make you wonder about big a Telco's ability and willingness to control what information you can access.
