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Microsoft Office Open XML gets US knockback 7 20 (7/19/2007 4:56:52 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39288082,00.htm >An open office document format developed by Microsoft has received a >major setback in achieving a certification which would make it more >wid... Freeride

Microsoft Faces EU Probe on Word, Excel Dominance, People Say 3 18 (7/19/2007 4:52:51 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aR9bHOp5bm3A&refer=europe >July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software >maker, is facing deeper scrutiny from European regulators on... Freeride

Japanese Government Embraces Open Source 1 25 (7/19/2007 4:48:51 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8617 >July 17, 2007: Japan has become the latest country to have its government >openly embrace the OpenDocument format, making a shift to a new policy >structure that favou... Freeride

Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features 14 22 (5/12/2007 6:36:10 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.com.com/Microsoft+cuts+Windows+virtualization+features/2100-1016_3-6182852.html?tag=cd.top >The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology >to try to stick to its schedule ... Freeride

Dell offers XP again amidst Vista complaints 7 21 (4/21/2007 6:43:56 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/dell_offers_xp_again/ >Meanwhile, Microsoft is showing its poker face regarding the development. >"Dell is responding appropriately to a small minority of customers... Freeride

Gates counters rival with $3 software 42 16 (4/20/2007 3:46:32 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article1676934.ece >Microsoft promises cheap student software as charity set to ship five >million Linux-based laptops to developing w... Freeride

Microsoft confirms Vista OEM hack 1 38 (4/18/2007 2:00:56 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.com.com/Microsoft+confirms+Vista+OEM+hack/2100-1002_3-6175615.html?tag=cd.top >According to a post by Microsoft Senior Product Manager Alex Kochis on >the Windows Genuine Advantage developers' blog... Freeride

Office zero-day bugs spoil Patch Tuesday 10 23 (4/13/2007 3:32:36 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.com.com/Office+zero-day+bugs+spoil+Patch+Tuesday/2100-1002_3-6175011.html?tag=cd.top >"There is one heap-overflow flaw that might be exploited for code >execution," Karthik Raman, a McAfee research... Freeride

Vista #2 6 21 (4/7/2007 5:58:38 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware ... Freeride

Patch Reboot Reboot Reboot Reboot Reboot Reboot Reboot Reboot 18 20 (4/4/2007 3:33:07 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Why the fsck does every fricken single M$ patch require a reboot!! Does Micro$oft not understand the massive pain in the ass that is required to schedule and coordinate downtime with users and reboot 100's of s... Freeride

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Switch to Linux, get fired! 4 22 (5/13/2007 11:48:03 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Looks like switching from Windows to Linux was a blatant failure... http://tinyurl.com/39rzx3 http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/twn/content/pool/exclusives/051107-News-Bexley.html ... otto901 (492)

[News] Huge Bill for Bill After XBox360 Disasters, Microsoft Continues with the Big Lie 14 29 (7/6/2007 1:43:19 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Microsoft facing $1bn Xbox bill ,----[ Quote ] | Microsoft, has not revealed how many of its machines have suffered the | problem, but said the number was "bigger than we are comfortable with." `---- http://... newsgroups3 (80328)

Ubuntu Tough To Install, Review Claims 29 33 (7/11/2007 11:47:46 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Ubuntu Linux's Achilles' Heel: It's Tough To Install On Laptops Here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000451 The wildly popular Linux distro isn't all it's cracked up to be... awolfe (7)

Google rises over $600 33 16 (10/10/2007 1:15:47 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I saw the headlines yesterday in the San Jose Mercury. Google runs on an estimated million Linux servers. Must be some of that "Linux crapware" DFS is always talking about. Recently I also saw a graph of App... nessuno (2193)

NYT Tech Talk: XP PDF Bug SO BAD It Can't Be Revealed! 1 51 (10/13/2007 5:14:29 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy This weeks NYTimes TechTalk podcast had two good segments. The first is on the XO -- talking about the Buy 1, Give 1 plan. The second is about a bug in Windows that is so bad the discoverer has willingly not... jabailo (8242)

Using Linux as a router 11 19 (10/14/2007 3:07:46 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Hi Guys, We can easily use any Linux box as a router. Even if we don't have multiple network cards we can use the concept of sub-interfaces to create a router. The following article describes how to do it. I f... dineshaggarwal (6)

[News] Compiz v0.6.2 Released 7 23 (10/19/2007 4:50:30 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Eye-candy updates: ..---- | While Compiz Fusion has yet to hit v0.6, the Compiz folks have | just come out with a new release in the Compiz 0.6 series. Compiz | 0.6.2 adds support for automatically starting... spam95 (5187)

[News] PCWorld Blogs: Windows Vista Sucks 22 20 (10/29/2007 1:19:16 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy There's No Doubt: Vista Sucks ,----[ Quote ] | I don't know what's going on at Microsoft. They just can't seem to get | anything right. Don't believe me? Read on… `---- http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweak... newsgroups3 (80328)

Ubuntu 7.10, First Impressions 15 18 (11/1/2007 11:25:30 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I've been away from COLA for quite a while (insanely busy), but since I just installed Ubuntu 7.10, I thought I'd share my first impressions. So far, look and feel seems very similar to 7.04, with only minor ... thad05 (846)

OpenOffice project is "profoundly sick" 74 18 (12/28/2008 9:33:42 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Odd that Roy missed this, seeing as how he posts everything positive about OpenOffice. Michael Meeks, one of the full-time paid developers of OpenOffice claims the OpenOffice project is "Profoundly Sick". h... erik38 (8607)