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More Microsoft Codenames

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on September 19, 2005 | 4 Comments »

I don’t know about you, but I have become overwhelmed with the number of new technologies that Microsoft have announced this year.  There are some great new applications, services and APIs, soon to be available to developers and application consumers.  It is all very exciting (unless you happen to be a penguin). Not to dampen [...]

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Confused by Microsoft Code Names?

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on November 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a list I found of Windows code names: http://www.phm.lu/Documentation/Windows/Codenames.asp

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Microsoft Announces Community Technology Preview of Avalon

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on November 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Last Friday Microsoft announced the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Avalon – an alpha version of the Windows presentation subsystem. Avalon features XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), which is Microsoft’s answer for building presentation logic into application user interfaces, similar to how ASP.NET uses XML to build dynamic web forms. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730336,00.asp

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Microsoft goes after Netware

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on November 16, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

“Microsoft is targeting Novell Netware customers with a bundle of reasons to dump the software and switch to Microsoft Windows Server products.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/16/microsoft_netware_basher/ This ought to be interesting, MS paid out half a billion to Novell for loss of business to NDS (http://robgarrett.com/Blogs/software/archive/2004/11/08/227.aspx). It looks like MS is trying to recoup that expense by migrating [...]

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Microsoft / Comcast Cable Deal

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on November 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

US pay TV firm Comcast will next week deploy set-top boxes featuring Microsoft software, in a crucial test for Microsoft’s cable TV ambitions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3994993.stm

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Microsoft pays Novell half a billion

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on November 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

The case between Microsoft and Novell came to a conclusion today when Microsoft agreed to settle with half a billion dollars payout. Novell was suing Microsoft over loss of business relating to Novell’s gateway product called NDS. NDS was introduced several years ago and enabled users to retain password and user management on Novell servers. [...]

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Microsoft to Patent the Internet?

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on November 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »

http://www.shaftek.org/blog/archives/000169.html Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet’s basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case. Blunk expressed these concerns about Microsoft’s Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement in a recent note to [...]

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