Comment No love for OS/2? (Score 1) 654
The Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 and above was much better than anything Microsoft had to offer at the time. Omitting it from this poll is a sacrilege.
Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 2) 400
The good old days when the only internet access you had at home was dial-up and you had to fight with your sister whether her calling her boyfriend or me being able to check
Boy, do I not miss them.
Comment Come on now.. (Score 2) 400
WebOS - for all intents and purposes a dead platform - has its own poll option, but Windows Phone 7.x doesn't? That's just ridiculous.
Comment Re:New Poll! (Score 1) 1521
You must be new here.
Comment Re:I have some difficulty understanding this (Score 1) 1521
Now now - Schumacher is performing as good as ever. (Save for the occasional bumping into other cars...) His problem in his second career is the lack of a competitive car.
Comment Another long-time reader saying thanks... (Score 1) 1521
... for creating a site I've been reading daily since 1997. As a matter of fact I made a habit of saving
Best luck for your future endeavours, and I hope to hear from you soon, Commander. Suggestion: Apply at Google, then port Google+ to Slashcode.
Comment The IE market share in the PRC won't last (Score 1) 158
because Baidu, the most popular search engine over there, is working on a browser of its own which guessing by the screenshots is based on Chrom{-e, -ium}.
Comment Link to the actual article: (Score 1) 129
Submission + - Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0 [video] (winrumors.com)
FrankNFurter writes: "As seen on winrumors:
Some will remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0."
Some will remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0."
Comment Re:Debian6.0 squeeze screenshots Tour (Score 1) 250
It gets worse - Debian has a graphical installer now. I felt dirty using it to give Squeeze a try in a VM earlier.
Comment IP sold to MS-led consortium = UNIX? (Score 3, Interesting) 221
Think about it: Novell hold the copyrights and trademarks to UNIX. They would make for a nice addition to Microsoft's portfolio, don't you think?
Submission + - Microsoft planning app store for Windows 8 (neowin.net)
FrankNFurter writes: "Microsoft is planning a Windows Store for Windows 8 according to documents leaked to the Internet on Monday.
The application store will allow users to discover and download trustworthy applications and have applications and their settings follow them on Windows 8. "Consumers get applications they want, that they can feel confident in, that they can use on any Windows 8 device" reads one of many slides detailing the new Windows Store.
Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process.
It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."
The application store will allow users to discover and download trustworthy applications and have applications and their settings follow them on Windows 8. "Consumers get applications they want, that they can feel confident in, that they can use on any Windows 8 device" reads one of many slides detailing the new Windows Store.
Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process.
It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."
Submission + - Nexuiz Founder licenses Nexuiz for non-GPL use (alientrap.org)
King InuYasha writes: Nexuiz founder Lee Vermuelen, along with several other Nexuiz core developers, has licensed the Nexuiz name, Nexuiz.com domain, and Nexuiz DarkPlaces engine to Illfonic in a deal to get Nexuiz on the Xbox 360. However, the kink is that the engine has been licensed for non-GPL usage. That is, Illfonic has no intention of contributing their code back to the main GPL Nexuiz project. As a result, Nexuiz has been forked into a new project called Xonotic. While the main Nexuiz site doesn't mention that Illfonic has no intention of contributing back, the Xonotic project FAQ states, "Lee Vermeulen, the Nexuiz project founder, decided to license the Nexuiz code, including the Darkplaces engine, to a new game development company named Illfonic so that they could develop a closed-source version for the PS3. As part of this deal, IllFonic acquired the rights to use the name Nexuiz along with the domain nexuiz.com, and are under no obligation to contribute code back to the open-source Nexuiz project (and have stated that they have no intention of doing so)." Additionally, the Xonotic project states that Illfonic "may be in violation of the GPL as most contributors to the Nexuiz codebase have not relicensed their work for inclusion in a closed-source project."
Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5
rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.
Submission + - iD and Valve violating GPL
frooge writes: With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release.
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