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Comment concurrency - the developer's responsibility? (Score -1, Troll) 573

What a ridiculous idea. The application developer's free lunch is over, now she needs to think concurrently? Ha, she probably has difficulty with a single thread of thought...

But seriously, isn't the OS responsible for the heavy lifting with regards to task scheduling and concurrency? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft, right? Perhaps this is similar to their take on Security being somebody else's problem.
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Texas Bill For Open Documents 197

Ditesh Kumar tips us to a blog entry by Sam Hiser noting a bill filed in Texas that would require state agencies to conduct their work in an open document format. After Microsoft's grueling battle against ODF in Massachusetts, bluest of blue states, it must be galling to face te same fight in the reddest of the red. Hiser notes that the bill includes a rigorous and sound definition of an open document format, which ODF would meet but Microsoft's current OOXML submission would not.

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