Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley

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Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek, and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons,… 2008). She also is the co-host of the "Windows Weekly" podcast on the TWiT network. Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips, and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have done paid speaking engagements for Microsoft and some of its partners, but none where all the content is not my own.

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Is Corel's Linux business for sale?

Signs increasingly are pointing toward a Linux distribution sell-off by the beleaguered Canadian software vendor.

November 19, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Has the Linux bubble burst?

And if it has, is that necessarily a bad thing, or simply a sign of maturity?

May 31, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Torvalds: Linux 2.4 a step closer

Next release of the open-software kernel enters the testing phase. Fall 2000 ship date looms as the delivery target.

May 31, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging markets

While Linux may be cheaper up front, but over time, Windows and Linux offer roughly the same total-cost-of-ownership to customers deploying large numbers of PCs in schools in emerging markets according to a new Microsoft-funded study.

September 24, 2008 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Linux 2.4 kernel almost soup

Keepers of the Linux kernel deliver the first and only 2.4 prerelease version to testers, meaning the long-awaited 2.4 code is soon to follow.

January 1, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Not all Linuxes run on Pentium 4s

Intel blames Linux vendors for not keeping up-to-date with its Pentium 4 code base. Red Hat and TurboLinux are OK -- sort of.

December 10, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Linux in 2001: The year of predicting dangerously?

With 2000 drawing to a close, Mary Jo Foley takes a hard look at open-source trends for the year to come.

December 27, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign

With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsoft's decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL).

May 13, 2007 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

New kid on the Linux block: SCO

Long-time Unix stalwart SCO is getting into the Linux business, with its own Linux release. Some say it was just a matter of time.

June 12, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

Linspire joins the Microsoft 'IP protection' racket

Beyond giving Microsoft more fuel for its claim that Linux and open-source software violates 235 of Microsoft's patents (which these Linux customers need patent-infringement protection against in order to maintain peace of mind), Linspire's newly inked patent-deal with Microsoft also furthers a number of other Microsoft goals.

June 14, 2007 by Mary Jo Foley in Linux

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