Results tagged “microsoft”

It's time for a house party. What better timing than to coincide with the release of Windows 7. Microsoft was looking for people to host Win 7 parties in their homes, but the application time has closed. A friend of... Read More >>

Microsoft epitomizes the world of proprietary software. For the most part, they don't share their source code. Microsoft charges a lot for their development tools mostly because of the assumption that the ones buying their software are businesses with deep... Read More >>

Well, if you haven't heard the news, Microsoft wants to sue Linux and open source software out of existence. In the past, MSFT's strategies haven't worked too well. The SCO thing was pretty much a joke from the beginning once... Read More >>

Robert Scoble wrote an entry about what he sees as a reason Linux won't be adopted by the masses as their desktop operating system: the fonts. I couldn't disagree more with him. I'm looking at Gnome via SUSE Linux 10.1... Read More >>

Rumors had been swirling for a few months that Apple was going to release their dual-boot solution for running Mac OS X and Windows XP on the new Intel-based Macs. Well, the blogosphere is all a twitter this morning.... Read More >>

Often when I'm walking down the street, people come up to me and say, "Dan, I've been afraid to try Linux. Robert Scoble has me whipped. I've been using Windows for so long, I don't know anything else." It... Read More >>

Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his... Read More >>