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So, you didn't test the update on a non-production server? Just install any old patch and let it take your network down? Who do you work for again? I have to make sure not to do business with that.

ACLU already listed the plantiffs in their case. Let's not forget, the only reason for FISA was because the ACLU has already won, warrantless wiretapping is illegal.

What?
Did you know that DHCP servers hand out IP addresses?
Did you know that you can have a DHCP server on a LAN?
Did you know that you can have a LAN that's not connected to the internets?

In theory, M$ Office has support for Word Perfect. In reality, M$ Office does not support M$ Office and this is why OOXML is such a mess. The kind of support they are talking about is just another weapon to them. The sum of their anti-competitive efforts against others is something that does not work for their own customers.

IBM, Sun and others have made real moves to free software. M$ does not have the technical expertise or confidence to do the same. As Steve Ballmer said back in 1995:

"It doesn't matter if we bang our heads and fail," says Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's executive V.P. for sales and service. "We keep right on banging and banging and banging and banging and banging."

You can translate that as they don't care if something does not work for you and you don't want it, they are going to shove it on you anyway. There's nothing new here and no change should be expected.

Some of these specs, like the 1280x800 resolution screen look beyond the M$ limits for such devices. Good for Dell, they know what the market really looks like.

An iPhone with shell access seems the perfect match.

There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures - and the Dutch.

Looking through an article on the Series 60 office suite Quickoffice, I noted a claim by a company executive that OpenOffice users usually save their documents in a Microsoft (eg. .doc) format (hence no plans at Quickoffice to support .odf). I guess I can see the rationale for this — it helps if you're sending a document to an MS-using company — but what's the general /.-user's experience of this?
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39290063,00.htm

A.N. Onymous writes "Swedish IDG got a scoop (only in swedish) about Microsoft paying their partners for voting for OOXML."

Carlos writes "I have an old Athlon XP and I've been considering installing Linux on it. I'd like to hear what Slashdot (Linux) users feel are the best 10 (open source) games for the platform. In addition, what are their recommendations for distro and user-interface in terms of gaming?"
http://www.idevgames.com/

E5Rebel writes "Microsoft hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat, similar to its deals with Novell, Xandros and Linspire. Is this a shakedown of Linux users or is Microsoft trying to squeeze out middleware suppliers? http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operatin g-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=3530"

Ronald writes "Steve Jobs has just posted his manifesto on DRM. It's worth a read. And somehow, he comes across as far more genuine and sincere than Bill Gates when he talks about DRM. See http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/."

An anonymous reader writes "In his RSA conference keynote today, Bill Gates announced the Microsoft will support the decentralized OpenID digital identity protocol, in addition to WS-* and CardSpace. From its roots in LID, the first major deployment in LiveJournal, and now with support from Techorati, Magnolia, Symantec, a suspected mass-deployment by AOL, and a number of startups, using URLs as digital identities seems to be an unstoppable idea.

Key points of Bill Gates on OpenID are transcribed here, video of the full speech is here."