Entries tagged with 'Microsoft'

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009:

“Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?” FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris.
Oracle’s Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big [...]

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008:

Sun shows Microsoft how it’s done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put [...]

Links of interest for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008:

Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road.
Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 [...]

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008:

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one?
Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now.
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox [...]

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:

Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008:

Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future.
How one clumsy ship cut off the web [...]

It’s been less than a week since Windows Vista hit the shelves and we’re already hearing of problems and new bugs. Today the tech news sites are all getting very excited about the new vulnerability in Vista’s Speech Command utility, purely from a “Oooh, a vulnerability ALREADY” perspective, but no one has given a [...]