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Microsoft's 'M' treads on US veterans' toes
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| Microsoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's
| software for one of its fledgling products
|
| It's emerged Microsoft's M programming language shares the same name as a
| 30-year-old open language used by the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)
| along with tens of thousands of users in medicine and business world wide.
| Even the former Soviet Union's iron-fisted rulers and its KGB spooks used the
| language.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/05/microsoft_m_va/
Related:
Fiji's fury over Microsoft's Pacific solution
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| "Fiji's military government has written to the software giant Microsoft
| demanding the company not use their country name in any of its products."
|
| Fiji's interim attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum today released a letter
| sent to Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates yesterday, after media reports the
| software company may call its yet-to-be-released software "Windows Fiji".
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/fijis-fury-over-microsofts-pacific-solution/2008/06/27/1214472744065.html
The Other Vista: Successful and Open Source
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| The is a clear pattern to open source's continuing rise. The first free
| software that was deployed was at the bottom of the enterprise software
| stack: GNU/Linux, Apache, Sendmail, BIND. Later, databases and middleware
| layers were added in the form of popular programs like MySQL and Jboss. More
| recently, there have been an increasing number of applications serving the
| top of the software stack, addressing sectors like enterprise content
| management, customer relationship management, business intelligence and, most
| recently, data warehousing.
|
| But all of these are generic programs, applicable to any industry: the next
| frontier for free software will be vertical applications serving particular
| sectors. In fact, we already have one success in this area, but few people
| know about it outside the industry it serves. Recent events mean that may be
| about to change.
|
| The basic program is called VistA; the name was chosen well before a Certain
| Other Company copied the move, and the code began life as an electronic
| health records system for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/other-vista-successful-and-open-source
Google reputation hits top spot
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| Google has finally managed to push Microsoft from its top spot.
|
| The Vole actually fell to tenth place in the annual Harris Interactive
| Reputation Quotient poll, but overall, the tech sector did outstandingly well
| this year.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/23/google-intel-microsoft-top
Microsoft’s credibility turning to junk while Linux revenue grows
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| Sweeping changes are needed in Microsoft’s go-to-market approach, and it may
| find more success by creating products like Live Writer, which found a huge
| following right away. Continuing on its current path, the company will
| continue to destroy its credibility and build animosity with users looking
| for quality products on their terms.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure%20/2008/04/10/microsofts-credibility-turning-to-junk-while-linux-revenue-grows/
http://tinyurl.com/5fojkd
Microsoft Plummets, Retail Falls While Beauty Gains in CoreBrand 2007 Brand
Power Rankings
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| The annual "CoreBrand Brand Power 100" Branding Index(R) of 1,200 US
| corporations ranks Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson at #1 and #2
| respectively, unchanged since 2004. Meanwhile, Microsoft's corporate brand
| declined in stunning fashion over the past four years, falling from 11 in
| 2004 to 59 in 2007 Microsoft, a decline of 48 places!
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=834308
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| Would you believe... that Microsoft has dropped down to #86 within the
| Fortune Best Places to Work survey? That's down from #50 in 2007 and #42 in
| 2006. Like a rock. In a bad way. And who is #1 for two years in a row? Grab
| that chair and give it a big effen toss in the air to Google! Toot! They get
| bigger and they're still #1.
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-quick-quips-yahoo-86-and-mspoll.html
Apple has biggest impact on world consumers: survey
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| Microsoft, the world's largest software maker was also a winner, but it
| received the dubious honor of the brand most readers wanted to argue with,
| and the one they most wanted to revamp. Voted into second place in the
| category was brand USA.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL2850164020080331
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