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Comment Re:Who's being "forced" to do anything?! (Score 1) 579

by ebtebee (#21116423) Attached to: Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update
I totally agree with you and on the other hand I decided to give it a try and installed the update. The indexing can be stopped and is usually idle if you are doing something on your PC. The software only indexes the Documents and Settings by default and to top that it's a good piece of software with really good/fast searching. So stop the MS bashing and agree that it's something better from MS.

Indian Government Lifts Ban on Blogs 135

Posted by Zonk from the i-have-a-soapbox-and-i-must-speak dept.
iDope writes "The Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India has lifted the ban on blogs (reported previously on Slashdot) following pressure from the Indian blogger community and the media. Even with the lifting of the ban several bloggers from BloggersCollective are getting ready to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) (similar to a Class Action Lawsuit in US) in the Supreme Court of India against the Government censorship of the Internet."

VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch 231

Posted by Zonk from the bully-boy dept.
feminazi writes "Jeff Boles attributes VMWare's dominance over Microsoft in the virtualization market to a combination of product depth and focus, but especially to the fact that 'VMWare is actually delivering Microsoft's product in the way that Microsoft should be delivering it.' The ease of GUI but with those enterprise-ready traits that Microsoft is still struggling with: application separation, and decent resource utilization."

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