That is why I said the *devices*. I know they virtualize the CPU. And saying "there are some 16-bit and virtualized sound drivers (in VMware)" isn't very clear.
The early versions was indeed never a port, but with Office 4.x they decides to merge the teams and share a lot of code, which caused a lot of backlash. This caused MS to create the MacBU which developed Office 98 for Mac and later.
Yea, I know the tivoization is not Google's fault for a while now. But since you work for Google, do you know if it ever has been considered to license Android under the GPLv3?
Personally I think it is not stupid to say it if it actually happens. It doesn't mean it isn't stupid to do it. BTW, on the FireStar patent Sun was able to get it invalidated: http://lwn.net/Articles/289747/
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Even worse is compensating executives based on it.
And BTW this is not new. MS did something similar with Corel more than a decade ago:
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/microsoft-buys-into-corel-2000103/
http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.html
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/details-of-corel-microsoft-deal-revealed
That is why I said the *devices*. I know they virtualize the CPU. And saying "there are some 16-bit and virtualized sound drivers (in VMware)" isn't very clear.
Yea, the move from XPDM to WDDM.
VMware, VirtualPC, VirtualBox etc, provide virtualization. DosBox provides emulation.
Actually all VM software emulate the devices. And some VM software do emulate the SB16. I think at least older VMware and Virtual PC for example did.
The reason NTVDM does not work on the 64-bit versions of Windows is that x86-64 CPUs don't support switching to real mode without a hardware reset.
It is actually because long mode do not support virtual 8086 mode.
Yea, many teachers ban cellphones during class time for other reasons anyway, but wi-fi is a different matter entirely.
Even the researchers don't think the main frequency (900 Mhz, 2.4 Ghz, 5 Ghz, etc) is the problem. The problem is that they stupidly designed the protocol so that it uses pulses transmitted at ELF to actually modulate data, and ELF is well known to cause harm:
http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2009/07/31/cell-phones-emit-more-harmful-radiation-than-fm-radios.aspx
That is why study comparisons are important IMO.
Note that the the report says some of these are already fixed.
IMO a PR 2.0 compliant company (one that no longer control the message, etc...) should not need to cover up smoking guns.
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but if you need to control them from top-down, maybe.
It isn't just AARD. Try running for example the PWB shipped with MS C 6.0 under NTVDM.
So they came up with differrent, unpublished APIs that were separate to the shell that MS could use and others couldn't.
Proof?
I used to work at Geek Squad and we'd play around in people's computers out of boredom and were even told to look for things that are illegal.
Notice the "used to". They got exposed for this by the Consumerist in 2008 or so. Search for "geek squad porn" there and you will see the stories.
we don't give competent answers because you...the customer...are not paying us enough to...
What do you mean by "not paying us enough to"?
No worse than XP anyway (unlike Vista).
Yea, Vista was so bad for netbooks MS had to continue selling XP for them.
But limiting campaign donations still would help a lot.
The early versions was indeed never a port, but with Office 4.x they decides to merge the teams and share a lot of code, which caused a lot of backlash. This caused MS to create the MacBU which developed Office 98 for Mac and later.
Yea, I know the tivoization is not Google's fault for a while now. But since you work for Google, do you know if it ever has been considered to license Android under the GPLv3?
I remember not having xnu kernel source code was one of the limitations of early 32-bit only releases of Intel Mac OS X 10.4.
Why do you think the OpenType sanitizer had to be created?
What really matters is whether they are satisfied with the speed, IMO?
Personally as I said before I hope they will finally let the MS-Novell deal expire.
Personally I think it is not stupid to say it if it actually happens. It doesn't mean it isn't stupid to do it. BTW, on the FireStar patent Sun was able to get it invalidated:
http://lwn.net/Articles/289747/