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Danish Delegate Disputes OOXML Standard Vote

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| By voting to adopt a standard based on Microsoft's OOXML document format, the
| Danish national standards body has approved an unknown text against the
| wishes of the main representatives...

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Gates Foundation reports Washington Mutual stake

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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman Bill Gates
| reported on Thursday that his foundation holds a 3 million share stake in
| Washington Mutual Inc (WM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and has doubled its
| stake in American International Group Inc (AIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
|
| [...]
|
| The foundation reported an 800,000 share stake in AutoNation Inc (AN.N:
| Quote, Profile, Research), the No. 1 U.S. auto dealership group. (Reporting
| by Karey Wutkowski)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1532703120080515

What do they receive in return? Money isn't being passed too arbitrarily.
Microsoft has also been working with some auto groups recently.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sells 2M shares

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Update: Why is NBC Flagging Digital TV Programs - and Why is Microsoft Obeying
It?

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| After further investigation of reports of Vista refusing to record NBC, we
| have found at least one case where a user receiving digital TV over-the-air
| has been blocked from recording...

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UPDATE: GM Considers Skipping Microsoft's Vista

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| "I can't stress enough we are looking at a number of options and that we're
| still assessing things, and a decision has not been made," a GM spokesman
| said Friday.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200805161551DOWJONESDJONLINE000771_FORTUNE5...

They hopefully realise that Windows is the worst platform among the
top three [1].

Microsoft Vista’s problems keep piling on

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| If all major businesses decide to stay away from Vista, Microsoft will be
| dealt a huge blow.
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http://vista.blorge.com/2008/05/17/microsoft-vistas-problems-keep-piling-on/

More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP

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Coders Tell Why They're Avoiding Vista

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| Microsoft Corp. undoubtedly wanted to avoid its current predicament. It has
| been publicly talking up features in Vista since 2003 -- half a decade.
|
| But such "overmarketing," as Krasowski calls it, can rebound. Experienced
| developers have become jaded towards the third-party apps Microsoft trots out
| as exemplars of Redmond's latest technology -- "demoware," he calls them --
| that sparkle with flashy animation and video.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146035/coders_tell_why_theyre_avoiding_vista...

Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/18/survey-programmers-shunning-vista.../

Developers not touching Microsoft Vista with a 10-foot pole

http://vista.blorge.com/2008/05/18/developers-not-touching-microsoft-vista-with-a.../
http://tinyurl.com/5ewsur

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Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed

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| So, how does Firefox 3.0 RC 1 compare? This latest run of tests was run on
| the same hardware and software platform as previous tests (to make sure
| nothing had changed we re-ran some of the browsers to check that we got the
| same results). Also added to the listing were Opera 9.27 and Opera 9.50 Beta
| 2.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1887

Recent:

Firefox 3 Beta 5 twice as fast in the cloud: Mozilla

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I remastered PCLinuxOS in French for my neighbor

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| I have a neighbour who is retired and loves to internet. That is not so
| special, but what is special is that he is 82 years old and would like to
| start learning Linux. He is French speaking so installing a localized French
| version of a Linux distro was a must.
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http://wamukota.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-remastered-pclinuxos-in-french-for-my.htm...

It seems like a trend. Friends approach friends for advice on migration.
Network effect.

My New OS - Mandriva Linux

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SliTaz is getting much better (I guess)

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| At 1.0, SliTaz was visibly based on JWM (Joe's Window Manager). The cooker
| has now a version where more components of a nicer desktop were added: LXDE.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/05/18/20/44/43-slitaz-is-getting-much...

Minimalism works for many people. Only Linux offers this choice.

Recent:

Geek of the Month: Donald Knuth

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| Knuth uses a regular Linux-based Intel computer for most of his work. He
| doesn't use fancy proprietary tools. He uses Emacs as an editor and Fvwm2 as
| a windows manager.  
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http://junauza.blogspot.com/2008/01/geek-of-month-donald-knuth.html

SliTaz: A light-weight GNU/Linux distribution

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VMware refreshes Workstation 6.5 Beta 1

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| You can now enjoy seamless integration of your favorite Linux guest
| applications with your host thanks to the addition of Unity for Linux, a
| popular new feature in desktop virtualization. With Unity, you can launch,
| access and run guest applications alongside your host applications.
|
| And finally, they've made it even easier to install Linux guest operating
| systems with the Easy Install Option.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2008/05/vmware_refreshe.html

Recent:

Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation

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Linux and Sun Partnering?

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| What happens when you get Linus Torvalds, Mr. Linux, together with Jeff
| Bonwick, Sun’s master of storage and creator of ZFS? Well, right now, we
| don’t know.
|
| All we know is that Bonwick has posted a trio of photos of himself and
| Torvalds on his blog under the mysterious title, Casablanca, with a couple of
| cryptic comments about chocolate and peanut butter and the phrase, “All I can
| say for the moment is… stay tuned.”
|
| Jim Grisanzio, Sun’s senior programming manager for OpenSolaris, links to the
| blog under the title “ZFS Pics.” This seems to indicate that Sun may be
| talking with Torvalds about bringing ZFS to Linux. Even this conclusion is
| really just speculation.
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http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux-and-sun-partnering/