Microsoft: yes, we have no incompatibilities
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| The second instance refers to incompatibilities between Windows
| Vista and next-generation High Definition DVDs, BluRay and HD-DVD.
| The incompatibilities are deliberate, and part of the specification
| Microsoft gave hardware manufacturers so they could design
| Vista-compatible hardware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/microsoft_incompatibilities_then_and_now/
The plot thickens. Hardware is being built for a specific operating system,
with closed and secret specs. I used to think it was only Intel with TC.
Related:
'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/
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
Liberty Alliance, Microsoft discuss identity protocols
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| "We have finally put down the boxing gloves and are trying to figure
| out how to solve our customers' problems," said Roger Sullivan, the
| newly elected president of the Liberty Alliance and vice president
| of Oracle's identity management section.
|
| The Liberty Alliance, whose participants include HP, Sun and IBM,
| backs the ID-Web Services Framework (ID-WSF), a set of protocols
| for Web services. Microsoft supports another set, WS-Star.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/011007-liberty-alliance-microsoft-discuss-identity.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
OpenAjax Woos Microsoft, Plots 2007 Goals
,----[ Quote ]
| As the OpenAjax Alliance nears its one-year anniversary, the
| software developer and vendor consortium is making headway
| toward its goal of standardizing AJAX technologies -- and it
| may even lure into the fold the
| industry's most notorious standards scofflaw, Microsoft.
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=196801029&cid=CRNBreakingNews
OpenAjax Alliance tackles interoperability
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| While the alliance already has an impressive list of members, one
| name remains conspicuously absent: Microsoft.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060920/tc_macworld/openajax20060920
Microsoft readies new VPN protocol
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| Microsoft currently has no plans to seek standardization for SSTP.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/21/6698
The Microsoft Zombie Army will force Samba out of the Enterprise
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| Vista is to ship with a new version of SMB, called SMB2. At
| minute 40 in this FLOSS Weekly podcast, Jeremy Allison of
| Samba talks of behavior that will flood the network with
| 1500 packets just to do a network file delete. This will
| turn Vista computers into a DOS (Denial of Service) attack
| upon Samba based computers on the network.
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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