Fedora 8, KDE4, GNOME Remote Desktop, JeOS, gOS, Android boom. Where should
Windows 7 go.
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| In the recent few month, we almost see a boom of Linux. Fedora 8, KDE4, GNOME
| Remote Desktop, Wal-Mart's $199 Linux PC, Android all brought much of our
| attention away from Microsoft. The trend of operating system design is also
| splitting with the introduction of JeOS, gOS allowing older PCs to suffice
| for our daily uses.
|
| [...]
|
| The man sees the future but he's not the only one he sees that unfortunately.
| So if Microsoft were to succeed with Windows 7, I would offer something
| like "Your Windows Everywhere" online which is a remote operating system that
| you can access everywhere. It will give the users a chance to see how neat
| that works and how Microsoft is capable of offering such a great experience
| and convey the promise of a much better experience of Windows 7 in
| integration with a remote operating system.
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http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/fedora-8-kde4-gnome-remote-desktop-jeos.html
Sharepoint and why ODF, CDF, and other file formats may not matter much
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| While most of the open-source world sleeps, Microsoft is gearing up for a
| truly innovative take on its next-generation operating system. Sharepoint,
| not Windows, is the future of Microsoft's intended dominance.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9822820-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of “open source” as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is “not commercially distributed by its
| participants” - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
|
| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially “open source” is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision – to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
|
| [...]
|
| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields – open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like “open
| source” will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
Heady Days for Virtual Systems
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| The former Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft general manager is
| now vice president of XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization
| company with a growing outpost in Redmond, Wash.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59088.html
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
|
| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
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