MORDOR, Washington, Friday - Microsoft today announced carefully-phrased promises to appear more open about its business practices and technologies, so as to expand its reach through developers, partners, customers and competitors' wallets.
The interoperability principles and promises are an apparent, lengthy, reluctant, and necessary step for Microsoft's sudden efforts to fulfill the obligations outlined in the September 2007 judgment of the European Court of First Instance (CFI). And to have half a chance of getting OOXML through ISO.
"These pronouncements appear to be an important change in how we share information about our products and technologies and a significant expansion in apparent transparency," said Microsoft CEO Heave Stallmore. "While we've promised considerable progress over the past several years, today's announcement takes our virtual commitment to a new level.
"For the past thirty years, we have carefully shared misinformation with thousands of now-bankrupt partners around the world. By promoting greater interoperability, opportunity and choice, we hope to share even more of their information to our benefit. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Microsoft has already embraced and extended the open source paradigm to its users' personal files, which can be accessed freely by hundreds of thousands of Web sites providing self-installing keyloggers, adware, rootkits and botnets. Work is under way on a graphic markup language for more powerful commands, such as embedding an individual letter "t" with a directive to send the last ten recorded fingerprints from the user's touchpad to a Nigerian Web server.
To enable third-party developers to connect to Microsoft products, Microsoft will publish !!!for free!!! voluminous documentation, setting a new low in information per page, to contaminate developers with claimed knowledge for which their employers can later be sued, should they not cough up what Microsoft considers reasonable and non-discriminatory (or not unreasonably so) royalties. Open source developers !!!may use these protocols too!!! precisely so long as they do not do anything that involves people not giving Microsoft money.
"Microsoft's new promises will benefit the broader IT community," said Vomit Togel, head of Microsoft partner Perception Management, "where 'IT community' is defined as 'Microsoft partners.' This provides remarkable opportunity for IT consultants and increased choice of us in the marketplace."
Microsoft will expand industry outreach and dialog through a new Interoperability Forum and Fee Collection Channel. In addition, an initiative will address data exchange between widely deployed bank accounts.
"Sincerity is the key," says Microsoft founder Jill Bates III. "If we can fake that, we've got it made."
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MNPLY) is the worldwide dominator in software, services and solutions that make people and businesses help it realise its full potential.
There's a lotta good stuff that isn't on the six^Wfive^Wfour majors and really is just about unavailable on earth. And even on the four majors, they delete CDs at a fantastic rate and are surprisingly bad at releasing the obscurities for download. I need to back up my stuff again.
The way this works, by the way, is that white toothpaste contains fuller's earth, which is a very mild abrasive. This polishes the disk back to readability.
Use this as your last resort, only when EAC and cdparanoia have both failed.
Note also: if you hold the disk up to the light and see lots of pinholes... the aluminium layer's fucked and you haven't a hope. I dunno if you can repaint an aluminium layer...
Try ripping it with both cdparanoia and with Exact Audio Copy (Windows freeware that works well under Wine). Stuff that won't rip in one will often rip in the other.
No, the Opera releases are experimental; this Firefox release is directly in line to release. If it was in an Opera release-line alpha or beta, we might do the same, for instance.
MNG support was axed because no-one cared and no-one used the things at all anywhere - it's a dead format that never lived in the first place. But Theora support's been pushed for Firefox for about a year now, so here's hoping it doesn't in fact get a last-second feature cull.
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Let me guess, Edison fanboy administrators kept Tesla's revelation off Wikipedia?
Nothing to fear! Just like previous advances in technology!
Bob: "Braaaiiinnns?"
Bing: "Braaaiiinnns!"
Because this would be cheaper.
Dat's okay, dey got someone even bettah.
Dammit, I wanted to drink that beer, not feed it to my keyboard.
Microsoft, "out of touch"? Never!
I can think of a much more appropriate choice.
mmm, brains.
I suppose it could be a very lucrative job joining Microsoft not to work on the Linux kernel.
It'll be called Wine ;-p
MORDOR, Washington, Friday - Microsoft today announced carefully-phrased promises to appear more open about its business practices and technologies, so as to expand its reach through developers, partners, customers and competitors' wallets.
The interoperability principles and promises are an apparent, lengthy, reluctant, and necessary step for Microsoft's sudden efforts to fulfill the obligations outlined in the September 2007 judgment of the European Court of First Instance (CFI). And to have half a chance of getting OOXML through ISO.
"These pronouncements appear to be an important change in how we share information about our products and technologies and a significant expansion in apparent transparency," said Microsoft CEO Heave Stallmore. "While we've promised considerable progress over the past several years, today's announcement takes our virtual commitment to a new level.
"For the past thirty years, we have carefully shared misinformation with thousands of now-bankrupt partners around the world. By promoting greater interoperability, opportunity and choice, we hope to share even more of their information to our benefit. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Microsoft has already embraced and extended the open source paradigm to its users' personal files, which can be accessed freely by hundreds of thousands of Web sites providing self-installing keyloggers, adware, rootkits and botnets. Work is under way on a graphic markup language for more powerful commands, such as embedding an individual letter "t" with a directive to send the last ten recorded fingerprints from the user's touchpad to a Nigerian Web server.
To enable third-party developers to connect to Microsoft products, Microsoft will publish !!!for free!!! voluminous documentation, setting a new low in information per page, to contaminate developers with claimed knowledge for which their employers can later be sued, should they not cough up what Microsoft considers reasonable and non-discriminatory (or not unreasonably so) royalties. Open source developers !!!may use these protocols too!!! precisely so long as they do not do anything that involves people not giving Microsoft money.
"Microsoft's new promises will benefit the broader IT community," said Vomit Togel, head of Microsoft partner Perception Management, "where 'IT community' is defined as 'Microsoft partners.' This provides remarkable opportunity for IT consultants and increased choice of us in the marketplace."
Microsoft will expand industry outreach and dialog through a new Interoperability Forum and Fee Collection Channel. In addition, an initiative will address data exchange between widely deployed bank accounts.
"Sincerity is the key," says Microsoft founder Jill Bates III. "If we can fake that, we've got it made."
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MNPLY) is the worldwide dominator in software, services and solutions that make people and businesses help it realise its full potential.
What do you mean, no rewinding?!
LOL
Let me guess, the box isn't labeled "CD Digital Audio"? It's designed to play OK in many CD players but not in computer drives?
EAC works very well under Wine. I use it myself, alternating between EAC and Paranoia depending which does better with a particular bad disk.
Bad idea for a nonobvious reason: NEVER polish CDs with a circular motion. ALWAYS use a radial motion.
There's a lotta good stuff that isn't on the six^Wfive^Wfour majors and really is just about unavailable on earth. And even on the four majors, they delete CDs at a fantastic rate and are surprisingly bad at releasing the obscurities for download. I need to back up my stuff again.
That's gotta be some sort of Extreme Sports of disk recovery ...
The way this works, by the way, is that white toothpaste contains fuller's earth, which is a very mild abrasive. This polishes the disk back to readability.
Use this as your last resort, only when EAC and cdparanoia have both failed.
Note also: if you hold the disk up to the light and see lots of pinholes ... the aluminium layer's fucked and you haven't a hope. I dunno if you can repaint an aluminium layer ...
Try ripping it with both cdparanoia and with Exact Audio Copy (Windows freeware that works well under Wine). Stuff that won't rip in one will often rip in the other.
Precisely - I'm surprised they haven't already, and that it wasn't in fact in 9.50.
Worse than alpha - it's a nightly!
3.1 is due in a few months, which is why getting people beating on the feature now will get it lots of bug and crash-report loving.
No, the Opera releases are experimental; this Firefox release is directly in line to release. If it was in an Opera release-line alpha or beta, we might do the same, for instance.
MNG support was axed because no-one cared and no-one used the things at all anywhere - it's a dead format that never lived in the first place. But Theora support's been pushed for Firefox for about a year now, so here's hoping it doesn't in fact get a last-second feature cull.
Patents.
If they wanted press release mention, it would help if they put it into an actual release-line version (as Firefox has).