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FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary
... to "good science" and contrasts it with the "kind of tyranny" imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple that it replaces. He encourages people to use free GNU/Linux ...
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Is Microsoft Getting Ready to Kill Windows?
Windows, for all its popularity, has been outdated trash almost since its beginnings. Its chief twin problems, from where I sit, have always been that it's a single user operating system in a multi-user ...
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software ...
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Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - and not OOXML
Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format. Moreover, it would also join both the OASIS working group as well ...
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Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
Many companies are not going to install Microsoft Vista, and are holding out for the next version of windows instead. However, they should take this opportunity to make the switch to GNU/Linux, and use ...
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Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To "Annoy Users"
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What A New OS Needs
Could there be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft's OS dominance? If an open-source version of Windows can be developed that is totally compatible with the abundance of Windows drivers—the idea ...
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Things you miss with GNU/Linux
... update packages very easily. This is not like Windows or Microsoft update though. Package updates on GNU/Linux include any application you’ve installed from your distros repositories. For most of us ...
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Create Encrypted, Real-Time Backups of Your Outlook Data
Blogger Vinod Ponmanadiyil has years of email communication and documents in Microsoft Outlook at work, so keeping backups of his PST file (the file in which Outlook stores all your email) is very important ...
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Quickly Update Personal Organizer Sandy from Launchy
Email-based digital personal assistant Sandy can be a really helpful manager for to-do lists and calendar appointments, but only if you don"t mind composing new messages for every change. Reader Wyatt ...
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Microsoft's new weapon against open source: stupidity
An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ...
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Linux is NOT Windows
... before Windows. Windows 3 gave way to Windows 95 - making a huge level of changes to the UI that Microsoft has never equalled since. It had many new & innovative features: Drag & drop functionality; taskbars, ...
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Torvalds gives props to Microsoft for sharing
Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project that's among the best-known open-source threats to Windows, has words of praise for Microsoft's announcement last week that it would share some previously ...
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XBox Contollers in Linux
This HOWTO deals with the installation and configuration of Microsoft® Xbox 360™ controllers; both the USB and wireless. The older Xbox™ controllers should be supported out of the box, but if you ...
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IBM Responds to Microsoft: OOXML is "technically inferior"
Microsoft fired the latest salvo in the increasingly antagonistic document standards debate last week when the company accused IBM of orchestrating efforts to block ISO fast-track approval of Office Open ...
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Shock and Awe: Microsoft Bids $44.6B for Yahoo
In a desperate grab for the online advertising market, Microsoft came through and bid $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, for Yahoo. The bid represents a 62 percent premium to yesterday's closing price ...
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Vista is Most Secure OS: I Can’t Stop Laughing…
Microsoft has released a self-analysis of Vista that proclaims among other things that Vista has less found vulnerabilities than any other OS in their first year. Written by a member of their Trustworthy ...
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Command Line List
... | Format a filesystem | SWAP filesystem | Backup | CDROM | Networking | Microsoft windows networks | IPTABLES | Monitoring and debugging | Others useful | ...
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Power Toys for XP
... to the Windows experience! These programs run on Windows XP only. They provide additional value to some of the great features in XP. They are not supported by Microsoft. The PowerToys are installed into ...
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MS Windows
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in ...
ďż˝ 2007 Adam Tomasi
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