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Microsoft Says it Will Spend All its Money Anyway »

By dvorak on May 23, 2008 in tech5 | View Comments

It’s snowing in California? Ballmer says MSFT is going to spend $50 billion one way or the other. Yahoo is not a strategy. Carl Icahn worried a deal will never happen. Vista user account control are confusing says MSFT exec. XP SP3 corrupting the registry says Symantec. HP is now taking over the server business from [...]

Google gah-gah over white space spectrum »

By dvorak on May 22, 2008 in Technology, tech5 | View Comments

Nine hurricanes coming. Sugar OS may be spread to other systems besides OLPC. Meanwhile the OLPC folks say the next XO 2.0 will $75? Har. Twitter gets $15 million. How to beat jet lag? Don’t eat? The Netflix box is a streaming box not download and play. This is not the way to go. Google [...]

The Revenge of Mighty Mouse »

By dvorak on May 21, 2008 in Podcast, tech5 | View Comments

Microsoft is now in the news too much. Gates still chattering about one thing or another. The company decides to bribe users to use their search engine. Microsoft Office not adding support for its own Open XML until Office 14. Apple and CBS sued over stealing Mighty Mouse name. Is Comcast irked over the set [...]

Napster Rolls Out 6 Million MP3’s »

By dvorak on May 20, 2008 in Podcast, tech5 | View Comments

Microhoo story of the day. Now Yahoo will bust itself up for the benefit of Microsoft. Yeah, um, OK! Is the OLPC dead. One columnist besides myself thinks so, maybe. Asterdata shows up on the scene. I go over their odd bios on the website. Napster rolls out 6 million unprotected MP3’s.