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 Pourquoi Microsoft s’ouvre, un peu (February 22, 2008)Source: Transnets (http://pisani.blog.lemonde.fr) | Microsoft vient de décider d'ouvrir partiellement l'accès au code de ses principaux programmes (voir cet article du Monde.fr ). Cela devrait permettre aux développeurs de produire des applications indépendantes fonctionnant mieux avec ce que fait Microsoft.
Jolie perspective. Mais… est-ce bien vrai tout cela?
Le commentaire du porte-parole de l'euro-commissaire Nellie Kroes est pour le moins réservé: "Dans le passé, Microsoft a par quatre fois déjà fait une annonce similaire, sans résultat tangible".
Toute recherche simple sur le web vous montrera que le scepticisme domine, mais s'agissant de Microsoft, c'était prévisible.
Raisons techniques
Bill Hilf, responsable des stratégies pour serveurs de Microsoft et donc des initiatives Open Source de la société souligne la nécessité de prendre en compte le fait qu'aujourd'hui les données doivent pouvoir être utilisées plus longtemps que les applications grâce auxquelles elles ont été créées et le besoin de pouvoir les consulter à partir de divers ... |
JoT 1065, Microsoft's Big Gulp! (February 4, 2008)Source: The Joy of Tech (http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html)
It's not safe to just tread water!
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Microsoft Sued Over Halo 3's 'Consistent' Crashes (November 27, 2007)Source: TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com) | A San Diego man says Halo 3 is a faulty product that frequently crashes when played on the Xbox 360. |
En Vrac : Apple, Léopard et Microsoft (October 25, 2007)Source: MacReporter.net (http://www.macreporter.net/) | Apple a officiellement dédié un espace de son site web aux développeurs d'applications (Web pour l'heure) pour l'iPhone et se met à |
Microsoft forcing Windows users to install Desktop Search? (October 25, 2007)Source: Mac Net Journal (http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/) The Register has an short piece today that helps explain one of the little computer surprises I encountered with my Windows PC at work today.
A few weeks ago I set up Google Desktop on my machine, so I would finally be able to find things on my PC like I can do on my MacBook Pro. Google Desktop works fine, and it offers huge improvements over the search tools built into Windows XP (yes, we are still using XP at work, and I also have XP installed under Parallels Desktop on my Mac).
Oddly enough, this afternoon I noticed that there was another search tool running in the toolbar on my work PC. A right click on the search field showed that somehow Windows Desktop had been installed on my machine and finished indexing the hard drive without any intervention from me. That's right...I didn't install anything. I didn't agree to anything. But Microsoft took over my machine anyway.
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It All Comes Together: Microsoft Outlook roundup (July 19, 2007)Source: Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com) | Mark previewed messages as read
"Outlook 2007's default setting is to leave the naggy little "new mail" notification envelope in the taskbar, even if you've viewed your last unread email in the... |
Microsoft to Change Vista After Google Complaints (June 20, 2007)Source: Google Blogoscoped (http://blogoscoped.com) | A little background info is in order. A couple of months ago Google made a confidential complaint against Microsoft to the Justice department over Microsoft's indexing software. Google's complaint was that Microsoft doesn't make it easy to turn off the default indexing software in Vista ("Instant Search," which allows you to search your hard drive) if you chose to use a competitor's product like Google Desktop. So you would be wasting system resources by running 2 indexing applications.
Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Google's claims were "baseless". Well it seems that Microsoft and the Justice department have come to an agreement and will make changes to Vista ... |
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