Microsoft “scraps” the plans for “Longhorn,” the follow-up server to the .NET Server now tentatively expected in 2003, and instead asks clients to wait for “Blackcomb” which will feature the oft-touted “Yukon” technology. Confused, yet?
William Safire says “You are a Suspect,” if the Homeland Security Bill passes as is. Chilling.
Tuesday, and a short week thanks to the Veteran’s Day holiday yesterday.
Microsoft’s in hot water again, this time over a leaked memo describing their progress in their battle against Linux. Linux World’s Take and sister paper Info World echo similar sentiments.
A rather disturbing story here that the US is using remote-controlled airplanes to kill people in third-world countries. What ever happened to “bringing people to justice?”
eWeek (p)reviews Office 11: “Next Generation Office Shows Promise” Peter Coffee retorts with Microsoft Office 11: Ready, Aim … Fizzle?
Also in eWeek “Windows 9x is inherently insecure,” Sloan Crayton, a member of the Microsoft Office beta support team, told testers last week. Gee, I don’t remember them mentioning that when they were pushing Win9X… how long until Microsoft, selling Windows Z, admits that XP was a sham?
Folks on one of the developer lists I hang out on mention Gymnast as a free solution to generate PDF documents.
LawMeme has an article titled “One Coder’s Opinion of the Microsoft Opinion”
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
APNews has an article on the continuing erosion of the freedom of the PC in “New PCs Likely to Cede Some Control”
Dan Gillmour: “Microsoft: Freedom to Dominate”
Scott Rosenberg: “Money talks, Microsoft Walks”
Dave Winer: “There’s no justice in today’s decision.”
Boston Globe: “In Silicon Valley, resignation and skepticism”
Charles Cooper: “Machiavelli wrote that a prince may never lack legitimate reasons to break his promises”
In an interesting “Where are they now?” piece, News.com reports “Key players of antitrust trial: Where did they go?”
From the New York Times article:
“There was a fabulous opportunity to free up innovation and choice in the PC and online world,” Mr. Bresnahan [a Stanford professor who served as chief economist in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration] said. “We got about 1 percent or so of that value.”
Oh,oh. Looks like my router might be subject to a DOS attack. However, it requires remote web access, which would be a dumb thing. Here’s the article.