The French Say Au Revoir to Microsoft Software
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The French parliament has said au revoir to Microsoft. Starting in June of next year, French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software.
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced its decision to localise Windows and Office software in 14 Indian languages over the next 12 months and that the company would hire &#39;hundreds&#39; in India this year.
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Il colosso informatico Microsoft ha chiesto ai giudici del tribunale dellâUnione Europea, di mettersi una mano sulla coscienza e fare in modo di non costringere la societÃ  di Bill Gate a modificare il proprio sistema operativo Windows.
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Se i tribunali respingeranno le sue rimostranze Microsoft Ã¨ pronta a soddisfare le richieste dell&#39;Unione Europa per la separazione del browser dal sistema operativo. &quot;Ma noi speriamo sempre in una mediazione&quot;, dice Redmond.
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I'm back, with a very interesting topic too!  Joel Spolsky, ex-Microsoft Manager and software engineering guru has a new essay, How Microsoft Lost the API War that is creating quite a big storm in the blogging communitiy.  Joel posits that the priests in the holy Temple of Microsoft have lost their way, because it has split into two factions, and the wrong faction is winning. One faction worships on the alter of backward compatibility, while the other is led by fervent priests who are proselytizing to raise up the new gods of .NET and Longhorn. Joel suggests that the new gods will cause the destruction of the holy Temple because Microsoft's great victories were built on the altar of keeping customers happy with backward compatibility. Furthermore the old gods of the Windows API continue to grow more grotesque and cruel with the passing of time, driving former worshipers into the arms of the friendlier gods of World Wide Web.  This story sounds extremely plausible. I must admit that i fit the profile of the developer who used to develop on the Window's API, is familiar with COM and Win32 who now develops mostly using PHP and Python. However I continue to develop and maintain Windows apps that keep our customers happy, and we still plan to develop new Windows apps. Some points:  Temple of the Blind? Firstly, Microsoft is still a compelling place to work for to people who feel that they can make a difference. The Temple continues to attract talented people with a Unix background. For example we have the recent hiring of Ward Cunningham, author of the Wiki.  Microsoft is still able to keep talented people like Raymond Chen, and others like him who continue to look after the Windows API, and Longhorn apparently will still give high priority to backward compatibility. Open sourcerers like Miguel Icaza are sufficiently attracted to the .NET vision to stake their careers on Mono. Longhorn and .NET are compelling technologies, so even if Win32 is not so cute anymore, M'soft is providing something that remains very attractive.  What i do see M'soft doing wrong is that they aren't disseminating the .NET runtime fast enough. It remains an optional install in XP Service Pack 2 for example. Also their IE dev team appears to be hog-tied due to political reasons; nevertheless IE remains good enough, particularly when I can embed IE as an activeX control, something I cannot do with Mozilla (AFAIK) - Update: I'm wrong.  Temple of the Spider?  Secondly, people don't merely use a web browser. They run the web browser in the OS.  So let me ask you, if you are using DreamWeaver or HomeSite or Photoshop or vi or emacs or Gimp, how many of you are willing to give it up for a java applet (or whatever your favorite technology is) running in your web-browser? Precisely.  Temple of the Abandoned?  Third, Joel makes the claim that developers are not developing to the Windows API. Well he could be right. But I bet a lot of them are still calling Win32.  If you are using a framework or IDE like Delphi or wxWindows (or .NET or VB) then you certainly are insulated from the Windows API, but that doesn't mean that you're not calling the Windows API all the time. I don't see Borland dropping their Windows version of Delphi at any point in time.   In fact, the fact that many developers are using some form of framework is a compelling argument for Microsoft to enhance the .NET framework to attract developers who are using other frameworks.  Today, not that many students learn x86 assembler, but that doesn't mean that Intel lost the CPU wars. Just because fewer people are learning Win32 doesn't mean Microsoft has lost the API wars, if the frameworks run predominantly on Win32.  Temple of the Lost  Joel even warns you in the beginning that "because I'm talking about big trends, I need to exaggerate and generalize". But you still get sucked in because Joel Spolsky is a first-class writer, in the same order as Philip Greenspun or Eric Raymond. That makes him so persuasive and plausible. But this is not Indiana Jones and doomed temples, but Steve Jobs and reality distortion fields.  Other opinions:  Harry Fuecks (PHP is ASP's upgrade path),  Dennis Hamilton (M'soft is just covering all bases), Robert McLaws (Joel is wrong in 7 points), Oliver Travers (the web is not good enough), One Run-time to Rule them all....
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. BARCELONA, Spain--Microsoft has sucked billions of dollars out of the IT industry that could
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LISBON - Leaving no doubt of Microsoft Corp.'s determination to win the markets and minds of European governments, the company unveiled results of a survey Tuesday claiming that software is the main driver of IT job creation and revenue in the region.
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NovitÃ  da Microsoft per il Tablet Pc. Il colosso di Redmond ha annunciato lâarrivo del software di riconoscimento della scrittura in italiano nel nuovo sistema operativo Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005.
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Dans une newsletter envoyÃ©e Ã  ses abonnÃ©s, Electronic Arts a rÃ©vÃ©lÃ© une information trÃ¨s intÃ©ressante : un nouveau Command &amp; Conquer est en prÃ©paration.
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With a specialized version of Windows XP Embedded, the software maker wants to get its fingers in the till.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Bill Gates ushered his company'sÂ new Vista OSÂ and Office 2007 software suite into Europe on Tuesday morning, near the end of a round-the-world event that brings the software to 70 countries in 19 languages. Gates, who wore a pin-stripe suit and burgundy tie, started his presentation about 20 minutes late at the U.K. launch event at the British Library, which is working with Microsoft toÂ digitize parts of its vast collection. He recalled how far the company had come since 1995, the year the 32-bit Windows OS was launched along with the Internet Explorer browser, now one of the company's most-used applications. Gates was keen to present Vista as a milestone for the company, but also aÂ cornerstone OSÂ for manipulating video and photos, conducting e-commerce transactions and using VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) functions. "Today is a big day and is really the start of something different," Gates said. Microsoft continued its strong push around the world to complement the Vista launch in New York on Monday. In Paris on Tuesday morning, Microsoft flooded the out-of-town business district at La DÃ©fense with Vista-liveried Smart cars and Segways among rush-hour pedestrians. Gates touched on the revamp of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, saying its new interface "only takes a few hours to learn." While Microsoft has said that Office 2007's new "ribbon" menu, which replaces the drop-down menus and toolbars, should make it easier to find certain functions, some users have said it is tricky to adapt to. After Gates' initial presentation, he shared the stage with British Library Chief Executive Lynne Brindley to discuss the software application Turning the Pages 2.0 from Armadillo Systems, which the British Library uses to scan and compile downloadable renditions of texts in its collection. Gates allowed an item from his personal collection to be scanned. He owns the Codex Leicester, one of only a few existing notebooks belonging to the artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, who died in 1519. The British Library holds the Codex Arundel, another rare collection of his notes. Both have been digitized into realistic-looking renderings that allows users to "turn" the pages of the texts while viewing online. Brindley called it an "electronic reunification" of the texts that will help scholars study them. Both codexes are on the British Library's Web site. Â
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General Electric employee Nadine Meslin says dealing with computer software in any language is tricky, but it's even worse when you're French and the jargon is in English.
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The move comes at a time when Microsoft is sharpening its own tools and expertise in the area.
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The creative software giant illustrates its views on Microsoft, Apple, and Web video.
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Jorgen Thelin and Rebecca Dias detail Microsoft's Strategy for Web Services, specifications and products.
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By PAUL GEITNER    BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and the media and entertainment powerhouse Time Warner Inc...
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OPEN SOURCE champion Microsoft is expanding its programme to give government organisations some of its source code. In a communique from the lair of the Vole, in Redmond, spinsters have said that Microsoft