Microsoft not only has plans to enter the anti-virus and security sectors of the software market, but also has plans to offer fee-based security services. This is bad news — simply by entering the security market, Microsoft could stall innovation … Continue reading
Would the switch to Open Source software — or for that matter, anything that’s not Microsoft — be as attractive or even more attractive to individual/home computer users than business users? ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn thinks business users, and in particular … Continue reading
Two interesting stories about Microsoft hit the news today, and one wonders if they are related. First, Microsoft has sued 13 spamming operations that use zombie PCs to send out millions of spam. According to CNET News.com, Microsoft takes on … Continue reading
Controversy continues to swirl around ZDNet‘s George Ou’s blog report that compares OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Microsoft Office. Here’s George’s latest entry, Performance analysis of OpenOffice and MS Office: Microsoft Office came out very lean and fast while OpenOffice.org Office Suite … Continue reading
Controversy swirls around a blog report from a respected columnist that compares OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Microsoft Office — in particular, OpenOffice.org Calc vs. Microsoft Excel — and declares OpenOffice.org to be a pig: slower and fatter in its memory footprint. … Continue reading
Programmers released version 2 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, Oct. 20. It’s a major overhaul to the free open-source software suite that has become a serious rival to Microsoft Office. Nearly 50 million copies of OpenOffice have been downloaded, according to … Continue reading
It’s nearly the end of 2005, and Microsoft is still having trouble securing Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. This time the company actually hurt the ones it loves: power users who’ve tightened the security features of their … Continue reading
Microsoft is buying its way out of antitrust litigation from the European Union, as well as settling legal differences that are too distracting for the software giant. Microsoft agreed to pay Novell $536 million last November under the condition that … Continue reading
The news about my book, Just Say No to Microsoft, is just hitting the Web. The book itself should be in stores by the end of this month. XYZ Computing ran this interview on Sunday. The interview is six pages long … Continue reading
According to a PC World story, “Microsoft Exec Warns of ‘Fake’ XP Update” by Elizabeth Montalbano of the IDG News Service, a Microsoft employee is warning against downloading an unauthorized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 that has surfaced … Continue reading