Vistas Debut: So-so
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| "The end result will be the continued absence of any real consumer
| choice, years of waiting for Microsoft to improve--or even
| debug--its monopoly products and of course high prices," said
| Thomas Vinje, lawyer for ECIS, in the statement.
|
| I can?t say I really disagree with them. While it?s good to have
| a "universal operating system," it is not good for it to
| ruthlessly crush competition and stomp out innovation. Speaking
| of innovation - check out this totally cool Linux desktop! No
| wonder Microsoft is concerned...
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070131/25624_id.html?.v=2
He seems to have linked to the wrong video, but regardless...
Related:
Microsoft will change Vista to meet EU requirements
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| "Following discussions with European Commission, Microsoft committed
| to make a number of changes to the Windows Vista operating system
| prior to release," the software maker said in a statement, pointing
| to three functions of the operating system: security, search,
| and fixed document formats.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070130/tc_infoworld/85569
Vista violates rights, damages environment, creates monopoly
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| Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system released today will
| violate your rights, destroy the environment and create a monopoly,
| according to a group in the European parliament.
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http://pressesc.com/01170162093_vista_violates_rights_damages_environment_creates_monopoly
http://tinyurl.com/2y26zj
Vista gets slated - by the Greens
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| The Green Party has slammed Microsoft and it's forthcoming operating
| system, Windows Vista, in a withering attack on the company's "monopoly".
|
| Microsoft not only takes criticism for allegedly environmentally
| unfriendly policies, but for attacking civil liberties.
|
| The party claims that "Vista gives Microsoft the ability to lock
| you out of your computer," and that "Microsoft are determined not
| to play fair" in the video content market.
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http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=107813
Green Party slams Microsoft OLPC involvement
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| "Microsoft wants to restrict the greatest profits in the knowledge economy
| to already established software corporations like itself.
|
| "By installing its programs on these laptops Microsoft hopes to create
| market domination and vendor lock in. That is unacceptable bribery.
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http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2170267/update-green-party-labels
Microsoft rivals file second European complaint
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| ...Microsoft was preventing access to Vista's programming interfaces
| and hindering the development of compatible products, thus repeating
| anti-competitive violations the commission had identified three
| years ago in a previous operating system.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7bAF5B8FB2-488F-4468-80B8-21F6EEE223E3%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2ybdot
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe
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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
'Microsoft broke anti-trust agreement,' prosecutors claim
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| It's claimed Microsoft's engineers used at least 500 undocumented APIs
| to ensure Microsoft's applications worked better with Windows than
| those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/18/microsoft_breached_antitrust/
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
Microsoft used undocumented Windows APIs - Iowa testimony
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| 'All I can say is holy API batman...I'm not kidding...we are talking
| about literally 500-800 APIs here, no joke,' he wrote.
|
| Alepin had earlier claimed that Microsoft ran special demonstration
| programs whose sole purpose was to crash rival products and alleged
| that the company had subverted developers who used Microsoft's
| version of Java 'thinking they were developing multi-platform
| applications, but were actually developing Windows-specific
| applications'.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101947/microsoft-used-undocumented-windows-apis-iowa-testimony.html
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