software

On the ZDNet website, Microsoft reporter extraordinaire Mary-Jo Foley has a few items about the replacement for Microsoft Works, called Office Starter 2010.
Microsoft Works was a small suite of programs that was not perfect, but it was usually free with many computers, and continuing in that tradition, Office Starter 2010 will be part of a [...]

Apparently the sound beating that all the competing browsers give Internet Explorer 8 is not enough to keep them from spending still more money to bring attention to it. With the release of Firefox 3.5 yesterday, you must admit that Microsoft certainly isn’t afraid to spend, bringing ads for IE8 to market on the very [...]

In a piece about the market share of Ubuntu outside the United States, Christopher Dawson writes about the innovation that is going on using Linux outside our borders. Since his pieces tend to highlight education, I sometimes discount what he says as being from a too narrow viewpoint, but after reflection, and some other digging, [...]

I’m not sure what it is that has happened, but over at ZDNet, a few things are being admitted, which just a few weeks ago, would never have seen the light of day.
First, though Microsoft has spent a (reported) $100 million on Bing, there are doubts being presented. Doubts that Microsoft can overtake Google with [...]

Sometimes you simply can’t believe something you read. This one was found on reddit.com.
It makes me wonder about all those H1B visa holders that Microsoft has been hiring over the years.
Computer Science FAIL - Higher Education in India
This piece might come across as one intended to bad mouth my own college, but I have a sneaking [...]

Love it? Hate it? Not yet sure?
I have not visited the Network World pages for some time, instead relying on the print copy to glean information. This morning I popped over to see an article that I had not seen, speaking about something I haven’t seen addressed in other magazines, whether the print or [...]

Last night, William H. Gates III, the chairman, and co-founder of Microsoft, was the guest of Charlie Rose on his eponymous program from PBS. The interview, lasting for the entire hour, was another glimpse into the life of one of the strangest, yet immensely successful, men in history.
Throughout the course of the interview, Gates more [...]

After reading about the Microsoft Windows Live Preview software, also known as Wave 3, in a PC Magazine article, I wonder why Microsoft continues along the path of trouble it has taken for so many years.
Beyond the fact that it is expedient to release something past a certain point of utility, it remains a question [...]