__/ [ John Bailo ] on Friday 02 March 2007 23:11 \__
> B Gruff wrote:
>> On Friday 02 March 2007 22:52 John Bailo wrote:
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>>>B Gruff wrote:
>>>
>>>>My word - those poor chaps at Microsoft, after all that hard work....
>>>>
>>>>Let's hope it's just a rumour (or is that rumor?) eh?:-
>>>>-------------------------
>>>>Tens of thousands of federal workers are prohibited from upgrading to the
>>>>latest versions, according to memos seen by InformationWeek.
>>>>
>>>>Citing concerns over cost and compatibility, the top technology official
>>>>at the federal Department of Transportation has placed a moratorium on
>>>>all in-house computer upgrades to Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating
>>>>system, as well as Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, according to a
>>>>memo obtained Friday by InformationWeek.
>>>>
>>>>In a memo to his staff, the DOT's CIO Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an
>>>>indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no
>>>>compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new
>>>>Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific
>>>>reasons not to upgrade."
>>>>
>>>>http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700789
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>>>WOW!
>>>
>>>That's a punch in the stomach if I do say so myself.
>>
>>
>> Ah - so "the WOW does start here" then, John?:-)
>>
>
> It's not so much WOW as OOOOOWWW
I know it adds nothing, but wow! But I'd love to see a real ban. Micorosft's
Vista said to be illegal in the EU, but it's nothing official.
Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines
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| The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft
| Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the
| software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much
| for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070301/eu_microsoft
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| A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified
| developers have referred to much of Microsoft's
| formal documentationa s "undocumentation"
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http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)
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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
|
| [...]
|
| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
|
| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML,"
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
|
| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
|
| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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