Gates' Microsoft future of intense interest
Those hoping for a peace between Microsoft and open source are going to be disappointed.
Those hoping for a peace between Microsoft and open source are going to be disappointed.
Battle plans will take shape this week in the video game wars, as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo square off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles.
The U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.
During a Software 2007 panel on community and the Internet, PayPal co-founder and now CEO of Slide Max Levchin laid out a scenario in a social networking giant that locks in consumers will arise, with great similarities to how Microsoft was able to create a lock in on the desktop. According to Levchin, 20 years ago Microsoft was able to lock in consumers and lock up data and the desktop with complex file formats.
"Publicity stunt" is a fair description of Sun's attempt to force Microsoft to ship its Java engine along with or instead of Microsoft's own virtual machine with Windows 98. The move speaks a bit to Sun's desperation at not being more successful in its war for the hearts-and-minds of developers, who haven't raised much of a cry over differences between the two company's implementations.
Microsoft's No. 2 costs his boss a bundle while IBM frets about big bad unions.
Of ducking cybersucker punches and half-naked Web babe-casts. And where is Eugene O'Neil when you really need him?
It's code name central at Mix '07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsoft's Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces.
The verbatim record of the meeting between lawyers for Microsoft, the government and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
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