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  • Windows RT may breach Microsoft-EU 'browser ballot' deal

    The European Commission is keeping its eye on Microsoft, after a U.S. Senate subcommittee said it would investigate potential antitrust matters relating to Windows on ARM browsers.

    Blog posts | May 16, 2012 3:45am PDT

  • PandaLabs wants Windows antivirus software ballot ... but it already exists!

    PandaLabs wants Microsoft to offer a Windows antivirus software ballot to customers along the lines of the browser ballot currently being offered in Europe.

    Blog posts | November 9, 2010 6:35am PST

  • Microsoft changes algorithm behind its browser ballot

    Microsoft has tweaked the algorithm generating the browser choice screen that it is pushing out to European Union users as a result of the European Commission's findings in an antitrust case there.

    Blog posts | March 8, 2010 2:22pm PST

  • March 1: Microsoft downloads and shutdowns

    On March 1, Microsoft begins pushing out its browser-ballot choice screen in the European Union. The company also begins its bi-hourly shutdowns of the Windows 7 Release Candidate to get those...

    Blog posts | March 1, 2010 9:55am PST

  • The Hoffman files: counting votes in NY23

    For IT people what's the lesson from the NY District 23 electoral fiasco? When you buy a hammer, you find yourself compelled to use nails as fasteners - and if a couple of nails don't the do the...

    Blog posts | December 5, 2009 12:15am PST

  • Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal

    The deadline for official comment on Microsoft's latest rendition of the browser-ballot -- the screen the company has proposed to download to PC users in order to appease antitrust regulators...

    Blog posts | November 5, 2009 6:49am PST

  • How would you fix the browser ballot for European Windows users?

    It seems that Mozilla isn't happy with the ballot screen that Microsoft proposed to the European Commission (EC) as a way to ensure more browser choice on Windows PCs.

    Blog posts | October 15, 2009 2:34pm PDT

  • Microsoft scraps Windows 7 E

    The plan calls for Microsoft to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a 'ballot screen' in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.

    News items | August 3, 2009 4:47am PDT

  • IBM Australia faces strike action

    A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions.

    News items | August 15, 2008 6:55am PDT

  • Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?

    You can dismiss the FBI's identity database effort as a short term threat to democracy first because they're on the side of the angels and second because they're committed to doing the wrong...

    Blog posts | April 17, 2008 4:15am PDT

  • The Democratic Party's dangerous experiment

    Computer scientists David Dill and Barbara Simons caution that the risks of Internet voting may outweigh any perceived benefits.

    News items | February 4, 2008 6:03pm PST

  • Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option

    Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who...

    Blog posts | January 3, 2008 6:52pm PST

  • CO official wants return to paper ballots

    Colorado's secretary of state now says the state should junk electronic voting machines and go back to good ol' paper ballots, The Rocky Mountain News reports. "I have more confidence in having...

    Blog posts | December 26, 2007 3:54pm PST

  • Colorado decertifies voting machines

    Coming quick on the heels of a scathing voting machine report from the Ohio Secretary of State (see Larry Dignan for details), the machines have been decertified for use in parts of Colorado....

    Blog posts | December 18, 2007 7:40pm PST

  • A looming election nightmare?

    After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines....

    Blog posts | November 30, 2007 5:04pm PST

  • CA squabble with ES&S will delay SF election results

    Election night in San Francisco will be an anticlimactic affair, as Secretary of State Debra Bowen has implemented strict controls over Election Systems and Software, the company that makes the...

    Blog posts | September 19, 2007 4:54pm PDT

  • Scottish election suffers from e-voting woes

    The US isn't the only country with e-voting problems. In Scotland, elections last week were seriously marred by spoiled paper ballots, which led to technical problems with electronic counting...

    Blog posts | May 11, 2007 4:12pm PDT

  • Reluctantly, ID gives up punch card voting

    Elections officials much prefer the old system but optical scan technology can't be stopped.

    Blog posts | February 23, 2007 10:34pm PST

  • CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections

    County clerks increasingly think all-mail elections will be more reliable and more widely participated in. But Legislature is moving cautiously.

    Blog posts | February 21, 2007 1:13pm PST

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