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Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition 352

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 29, 2009 @09:12PM from the crippleware-wasn't-politically-correct-anyway dept.

Chabil Ha' writes "Heard the rumors that the much-maligned Windows 7 Starter Edition would be able to run more than three concurrent applications? Today, the Windows team made it official: 'Based on the feedback we've received from partners and customers asking us to enable a richer small notebook PC experience with Windows 7 Starter, we've decided to enable Windows 7 Starter customers the ability to run as many applications simultaneously as they would like, instead of being constricted to the 3 application limit that the previous Starter editions included. We believe these changes will make Windows 7 Starter an even more attractive option for customers who want a small notebook PC for very basic tasks, like browsing the web, checking email and personal productivity.' Small consolation, of course, if you want to watch a DVD natively, but I'm sure this won't stop the Slashdot crowd from enabling it."

Comment Re:So wait (Score 1) 458

by karmic_penguin on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:12PM (#26335103) Attached to: More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering

Fertilizing the algae will not only not effect the mount of CO2 absorbed by the seawater from the air, but will reduce the amount of CO2 in the water.

Actually, reducing the CO2 in seawater would change the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere. Removing CO2 from the ocean changes the equilibrium state between CO2 in the air and CO2 in the water. This causes more CO2 to be dissolved in the sea from the atmosphere through gas exchange, which is the whole point of Fe fertilization schemes.

Whether or not the algal blooms would successfully sequester the carbon on the ocean floor is another matter entirely.

Comment Re:My Oregon shuttle bus thinks it's in Canada too (Score 1) 392

by karmic_penguin on Thursday June 19, 2008 @11:09AM (#23858739) Attached to: How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information?

I'll bet the Canuck wi-fi is nice, but do they really need all those obnoxious noises on their website? I feel like I'm standing on a landing strip.

Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It 462

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:20PM from the down-for-the-count dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"

BBC Trust to Meet With OSC Over iPlayer 125

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 14, 2007 @09:09AM from the open-to-suggestions dept.

Virgil Tibbs writes "With the Launch of the BBC's iPlayer imminent, the BBC trust has agreed to hear the Open Source Consortium's concerns regarding the BBC iPlayer's tie in with Microsoft's software. The move by the BBC to use Windows Media DRM & their apparent lack of commitment towards other platforms has caused outrage in many circles and prompted several online petitions."

Submission + - Sun releases ODF plugin for MS Office (heise.de)

Submitted by extra88 on Thursday July 05, 2007 @11:15AM

extra88 writes: Heise online reported that Sun has released their OpenDocument Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003. The plug-in allows Microsoft Office (for Windows) users to open ODF files and save their work in ODF formats used by OpenOffice, StarOffice, and other programs. According to the ReadMe, the plug-in adds "ODF Text Document (*.odt)" as a format to Word's Open and Save dialogs and adds Import and Export options to Excel and PowerPoint. Support for Excel and PowerPoint in the Microsoft-sponsored OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office is yet completed and that Add-in supports only Office 2003 and 2007.

Submission + - The First Thing IT Managers Do in the Morning?

Submitted by on Thursday July 05, 2007 @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: When I was a wee-little IT Manager, I interviewed for a IT management position at an online CRM provider in San Francisco, a job I certainly was qualified for, at least on paper. One of the interviewer's questions was "What is the first thing you do when you get to work in the morning." I thought saying "Read Slashdot" wouldn't be what he was looking for — so I made up something, I'm sure, equally lame. Needless to say, I didn't get the job. But the question has stuck with me over the years. What do real IT and MIS managers do when they walk in to the office in the morning? What web sites or tools do they look at or use the first thing? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest.

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