Richard Stallman declara guerra à Microsoft

URL: http://softwarelivre.org/portal/geral/richard-stallman-declara-guerra-a-microsoft

Microsoft pede desculpas por tirar negro de foto em anúncio da Polônia - Autor(Bruno Roberti)

URL: http://uoltecnologia.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-08-23_2009-08-29.html#2009_08-26_10_42_39-100450639-0

Foto em anúncio da Microsoft na Polônia

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Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-oPlp-LQ23Y/Behind-the-4GB-Memory-Limit-In-32-Bit-Windows

An anonymous reader points us to a very detailed post by Geoff Chappell, first put up early this year, explaining how the 4GB memory limit commonly bandied about for 32-bit Windows (he is writing mainly about Vista) is more of a licensing preference then an architectural limit. The article outlines how Chappell unlocked his system to use all the memory that is present, but cautions that such hackery is ill-advised for several reasons, including legal ones. "If you want [to be able to use more than 4GB in Vista] without contrivance, then pester Microsoft for an upgrade of the license data or at least for a credible, detailed reasoning of its policy for licensing your use of your computer's memory. ... [C]onsider Windows Server 2008. For the loader and kernel in Windows Vista SP1 (and, by the way, for the overwhelming majority of all executables), the corresponding executable in Windows Server 2008 is exactly the same, byte for byte. Yet Microsoft sells 32-bit Windows Server 2008 for use with as much as 64GB of memory. Does Microsoft really mean to say that when it re-badges these same executables as Windows Vista SP1, they suddenly acquire an architectural limit of 4GB? Or is it that a driver for Windows Server 2008 is safe for using with memory above 4GB as long as you don't let it interact with the identical executables from Windows Vista SP1?"

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Why Windows security is awful

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-25-026-35-SC-DT-MS

Sure, it's Secure!: "Windows is now, always has been, and always will be insecure. Here's why."

Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pSr4tFeBAj4/Xbox-360-Failure-Rate-Is-542

Colonel Korn writes "The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54%! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%). Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures."

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How Bill Gates Denied Access to Office File Format Documentation

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-18-001-35-NW-MS-SD

Boycott Novell: "We required a signed license agreement in hand before we’ll send them the docs. They have to tell us who they are and what their company does, as well as their intended use."

5 Things Microsoft does not want you to know about Windows.

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-14-002-35-OP-CY-MS

Ghabuntu: "Microsoft, the Redmond giant and owner of the world's most troublesome operating system, has over the years done all it can to frustrate the development, use and adoption of other operating systems."

Aplicações 'prendem' empresas ao Internet Explorer 6, diz Microsoft Brasil

URL: http://ct.idg.com.br/cgi-bin/redirector.cgi?rnd=0&uid=e9ca9bc9e31771043cc4192742e5cf9a&site=idgnow&origem=idgnow/internet&url=http%3A//idgnow.uol.com.br/internet/2009/08/12/aplicacoes-prendem-empresas-ao-internet-explorer-6-diz-microsoft-brasil&title=Aplica%E7%F5es%20%27prendem%27%20empresas%20ao%20Internet%20Explorer%206%2C%20diz%20Microsoft%20Brasil&type=RSS

Sistemas de gestão online criados para o browser antigo dificultam atualização nas empresas, explica Microsoft. Movimento que pede fim do IE6.

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URL: http://ct.idg.com.br/cgi-bin/redirector.cgi?rnd=0&uid=84bf86a621717043bec56e52911119fa&site=idgnow&origem=idgnow/internet&url=http%3A//idgnow.uol.com.br/internet/2009/08/05/mais-de-40-empresas-de-internet-aderem-a-campanha-201cmatem-o-ie6201d&title=Mais%20de%2040%20empresas%20de%20internet%20aderem%20%E0%20campanha%20Matem%20o%20IE6%20&type=RSS

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20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mG_yc_TJytw/20-Years-of-MS-Word-and-Why-It-Should-Die-a-Swift-Death

Ars writer Jeremy Reimer takes a stroll down memory lane, recalling over 20 years of (almost) constant Microsoft Word use and why with current and emerging tech trends he thinks his relationship with the program may be at an end. "So why don't I need Word any more? To figure this out, I tried to go back to basics and think about what Word was originally designed to do. In the early days, Word's primary purpose was to ready a document so that you could print it out. As a student I needed to print out essays so I could hand them to my instructor. In the office I needed to print out reports so that I could hand them to my supervisor. The end goal was always the same: I printed out something to give to someone more important than me, who would evaluate it and, if I was lucky, give it back to me at some indeterminate time in the future. One didn't question this; it was just the way the world worked. Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much. Maybe it was the rise of office networking. Maybe it was when the printer companies kept raising the price of ink to ridiculous levels. Maybe it was when we realized we couldn't print out the whole Internet. Despite the fact that fewer things were being printed, we kept on using Word to create our documents."

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