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IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux 863

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @07:57PM from the riding-the-pr-coattails dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore. Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was announced a few weeks back for Africa (a program that began a year ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7. They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."

Fundraiser For "White Male" Illness Dropped 241

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 27, 2008 @02:32PM from the stop-the-penis-party dept.

gubachwa writes "The student association at Carleton University in Canada recently voted that Cystic Fibrosis was a charity unworthy of receiving money raised during orientation week fund-raising activities. The reason behind the decision, as given in the motion on which the student association voted, is that Cystic Fibrosis 'has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.'" I'm speechless.

XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again 204

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:25PM from the oh-oh-monroe dept.

netbuzz writes "Comic creator Randall Monroe suggested in a recent xkcd strip that YouTube comments would be better — or, more precisely, less idiotic — if only those posting them were forced to hear their words read aloud first. Well, YouTube has gone and made this "audio preview" a reality, albeit an optional one. And, it's not the first time that xkcd has contributed to the betterment of the Internet, as those who are familiar with last year's "Internet census" and its use of a Hilbert curve may remember."

Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio 67

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 06, 2008 @10:14AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."

Comment Re:They're Going to Have to Port, Then (Score 1) 336

by tykay on Thursday August 16, 2001 @12:26PM (#2147202) Attached to: Palm In Talks To Purchase Be's Assests

There are long-standing rumors that Palm wants to ditch the Dragonball for ARM. They demoed PalmOS running on ARM earlier this year, but it had a long way to go. Maybe this gets them out of porting.

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