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For what concerns spreading FUD, Microsoft is surely the best player in town.While surfing around I stepped into an article in MSNBC news portal, it featured a video that I would have liked to watch, but I was not allowed to because of the usual suspects: proprietary software and very narrow minded webmasters who do [...]

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Not the first, and most likely not the last, open letter that has been addressed to the nice calm and open minded man we all know under the name of Steve A. Ballmer.This time is the CEO of Mandriva, François Bancilhon, to raise some criticism on the way of doing businesses of Microsoft Corp.
People worked [...]

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David vs Goliath reloaded in Beijing
A university student from Beijing decided to sue Microsoft for infringement of his privacy. What he's asking is a fairly small amount of money (~180 $) for compansation of damages and (this is a nice one and i like it) public apoplogies in a national newspaper.
The question arise [...]

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Scandinavia is an European area that is usually much more aware about IT issues than other regions. That's why i'm both happy and not surprised to come to know that Denmark, Norway and Sweden showed to be skeptical about Microsoft's OOXML file-format.
OOXML is now being processed through the national standardization bodies all around the world. [...]

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WHEN: 17 September 2007, 9:30
WHERE: Grande Salle, European Court of Justice
WHAT: The Final Decision in Microsoft vs. EC Commission T-201/04
WHY: Because it's time to end this never-ending show, and time for those who've been found guilty to behave as they should

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Microsoft included an Add-on in its new Office suite for Windows Vista to be able to open/save ODF files. But from how this has been implemented and/or integrated into the system, two possibilities arise.

Programmers and software engineers have no clue of what a good design and a good usability implementation in software are.
Programmers and software [...]

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