Ars Technica has unearthed a nice set of Best Buy training slides from Microsoft: Ones aimed at teaching store employees how to pitch Windows 7 PCs vs. Macs. Given how much time, effort and money Microsoft is spending to fight Apple, these docs are a lot more relevant than the Linux ones circulating earlier this week.
Windows isn't the only OS whose delivery date is the subject of office bets and rewritten road maps. Linux 2.4 is likely to be a year behind schedule at best.
Instead, a reborn Amiga goes forward with its own plans to make Linux a great multimedia/gaming platform.
"If we don't cannibalize our existing business, others will." That's from a slide deck from a one of many Microsoft presentations this week at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference, where company officials are working to get the 14,000 attendees onboard with Microsoft's move to the cloud
According to IDC's new server data, Windows is still the dominant player. While the fourth quarter was more robust than the third, in terms of total revenues and units, Windows' share of the total stayed constant unit-wise, yet declined, dollar-wise.
After releasing with much fanfare 20,000 lines of driver code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) for inclusion in the Linux kernel, Microsoft hasn't followed through with the necessary updates and fixes required by the community, according to one Linux leader.
The biggest addition to the release of Linux kernel 2.4.1 is a journaling file system that allows administrators to more quickly recover data in the event of system failure.
Nope, that's not a typo in the headline. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree, the company announced on the opening day of the OSCON open-source conference.
On July 6, Microsoft removed a seeming licensing hurdle for Mono by putting the licensing of the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and the C# programmng language under its "Community Promise."
To what extent are Fortune 500 companies already using Linux? Open-source champions Oracle, IBM and VA Linux have differing opinions.