MS owns a trademark on the word windows as the name of a piece of software
Most likely they do not own this. The Lindowes suit brought by MS and later "settled" by MS paying Lindows $20M made this fairly clear.
The court ruled that the suit would not be as of the understanding of the word Windows today but at the time they adopted this for Microsoft Windows.
They would most likely have lost and once they understood this they Settled a suit they filed themselves.
IBM is perfectly positioned to be the champion of new notably middleware standards.
They can expand their R&D and with no real axe to grind they can secure that new and needed standards gets approvel quicker. Their interest is the quality of the standard that they can then offer their clients as a new service.
Take a look here and you will get a good feel for the Future IBM
To publish a complete API (without implementation code) would cost MS a decent amount of money to simply produce it in the first place.
So let them pick what option they want to do, being expensive if not really a concern of the EU. Remember this is not because they are nice guys but imposed because they broke the law in EU.
MIT's Multimedia lab led by Negroponte is working on a $100 laptop project for poor people that seems to have a fair amount of financial backing.
More here
Google Technological Singularity M or use the Wikipedia link. Speculating on anything after machine intelligences starts improving itself is futile. ETA 2060
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And this kind of thinking is anathema to the Religious right. ;-)
Grammar FYI
I heard that people from Kansas looses IQ points when they go to the bathroom.
God didn't create Microsoft Office to Futs in us unused.
Look at Greasemonkey, You can do this today in FF
Most likely they do not own this. The Lindowes suit brought by MS and later "settled" by MS paying Lindows $20M made this fairly clear. The court ruled that the suit would not be as of the understanding of the word Windows today but at the time they adopted this for Microsoft Windows.
They would most likely have lost and once they understood this they Settled a suit they filed themselves.
We have enough MS paid shills out there already, Enderle, Didiot etc
The Company was / Is called Video Arts
One thing that is not often mentioned is the fact that infected documents are less likely to cause harm if opened with OO.o.
Oiee CPU0 is history.
No harm done but kind of a scary error message.
Server is running on it
You could have fooled me.
I will stop removing web advertising the day I am being paid for watching adds while driving.
They can expand their R&D and with no real axe to grind they can secure that new and needed standards gets approvel quicker. Their interest is the quality of the standard that they can then offer their clients as a new service.
Take a look here and you will get a good feel for the Future IBM
They tried that logic in USSR, Remember? Didn't work
Or were you just trolling for Intel?
So let them pick what option they want to do, being expensive if not really a concern of the EU. Remember this is not because they are nice guys but imposed because they broke the law in EU.
MIT's Multimedia lab led by Negroponte is working on a $100 laptop project for poor people that seems to have a fair amount of financial backing. More here
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Let's see if the EU can beat the Americans and report back before 2012.
They should concentrate on notorious child porn hang outs like this site.
You are joking Right?
Esclipse
Google Technological Singularity M or use the Wikipedia link. Speculating on anything after machine intelligences starts improving itself is futile. ETA 2060
SCO
You know that Truth is an affirmative defense for slander and libel
Alabama used to be best answer but with SCO and now this I am not so sure