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Vista Breaks Applications
Microsoft really doesn’t want you to know this, but many of your existing applications won’t work with Vista. In fact, some brand new products won’t work with Vista. At the top of that list of “It doesn’t work,” we find, believe it or not, Microsoft new music player, Zune. Yes, that’s right; Microsoft’s iPod killer…
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VARs Want More Baby-sitting from CompTIA Roadmap
Early users of CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Roadmap Beta version, released in August, have said the process leaves to much of the shepherding and policing of progress to the VARs themselves. The roadmap, a Web-based program and guide to help resellers first assess the state of their business, such as what areas are profitable or unprofitable…
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Smith Micro Launches New Data Compression Software for Windows
Smith Micro Software Inc. announced Nov. 21 that it has launched its latest data compression software that will be able to reduce the size of joint photographic experts group (JPEG) and allow users to be productive in a variety of management tasks. The data compression software developer out of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has released StuffIt…
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Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’
In an unusually fast turnaround, Microsoft replied within hours to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian’s “Open Letter to the Community from Novell.” In a statement, Microsoft acknowledges that Novell never agreed, as some critics of the deal have claimed, to Microsoft’s vague contentions of patent violations in Linux. In his open letter to the community, Hovsepian…
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Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims
Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with…
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Novell and the Brave New Open-Source World
For some people, when Novell recently made a deal with Microsoft, it might as well have sold its soul to the devil. At the same time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been mouthing off about how Microsoft signed the pact because Linux “uses our intellectual property” and Microsoft wanted to “get the appropriate economic return…
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