Internet Explorer roda 10 vezes mais rápido com complemento do Google

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Teste de acesso a serviço em JavaScript mostra que Internet Explorer 8 com complemento Chrome Frame é 9,6 vezes mais veloz que browser original.

IBM manda funcionários pararem de usar o Microsoft Office

URL: http://softwarelivre.org/portal/geral/ibm-manda-funcionarios-pararem-de-usar-o-microsoft-office

Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP

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CWmike writes "Microsoft says it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4. 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,' said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP. 'An update for Windows XP will not be made available,' Stone and fellow program manager Jerry Bryant said during the Q&A portion of the Webcast (transcript here). Last Tuesday, Microsoft said that it wouldn't be patching Windows 2000 because creating a fix was 'infeasible.'"

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Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day

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Eugen writes "A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed on the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take about 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data and 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit upgrade."

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Presidente da Microsoft lança iPhone de funcionário da empresa no chão

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Não é a primeira vez que Steve Ballmer deixa clara sua antipatia com o smartphone da rival Apple. Episódio ocorreu durante reunião na companhia.

If Microsoft Really Wants to be Friends with Linux...

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-09-11-018-39-OP-MS

Cyber Cynic: "Microsoft is Microsoft. The Codex Foundation claims that it 'will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities.' I don't believe it for a minute."

CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LXII: Steve Ballmer publicly ridicules Microsoft employee with iPhone, threatens to smash it

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-lxii-steve-ballmer-publicly-ridicules/

Not every man was born with common sense. And anyone who's ever seen Steve Ballmer take a stage knows that you don't want to get in the way of the emotionally-charged big man when the curtain opens. So we're not terribly surprised to learn that Steve grabbed an iPhone he saw during his big entrance to a private Microsoft company meeting held at Seattle's Safeco Field. Apparently, the hapless employee (allegedly from the Windows group) was trying to snap a photo of his boss when Ballmer grabbed the device and made some "funny comments" met by boos and jeers from Microsoft's employees. Steve then set it on the ground and pretended to stomp on it before walking away -- later teasing the employee during his presentation by noting that he hadn't forgotten him. Good times, we're sure, and nothing rallies the troops like a common enemy... except perhaps the camaraderie that comes in knowing that you've created a game-changing device.

We even have a photograph from the actual iPhone supposedly snapped while Steve Ballmer was brandishing it overhead. We can't say for sure if it's real, in fact, that could be the guy from Lost. See it after the break.

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Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD

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David Gerard writes "Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who'd annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks. Well done, guys! Another one for the Windows 7 Drinking Game."

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Microsoft's training materials teach Best Buy employees how to trash Linux

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/08/microsofts-training-materials-teach-best-buy-employees-how-to-t/

Look, nobody's saying Linux is perfect for every consumer (or even most), but Microsoft's "training material" for Best Buy employees casts the open source operating system in a bit of a bad light -- and isn't exactly accurate. A few of the humorous tidbits in the Linux comparison guide include mentioning World of Warcraft as incompatible with Linux (despite great support for it under WINE), calling Linux's safety reputation a "myth," and describing Linux updates and upgrades as difficult and time consuming. The availability of Windows Live Essentials as a "free download" is also quite laughable -- Linux has endless free alternatives to Microsoft's Live Essentials, and many of them are better than what Microsoft offers. Not to say there hasn't been the odd consumer that was burned by purchasing a Linux-running netbook, but we'd say there are enough tangible benefits to Windows for Microsoft to avoid misinformation when talking down the open source competition.

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60 Thousand Russian Teachers Will Learn Linux by the End of 2009

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-09-04-016-35-NW-BZ

Profy: "...reliance on commercial software in all the fields of life is considered something of a national vulnerability where one non-local company can easily influence the future of the entire nation where everyone - from a school child to a mayor of a city - uses Microsoft products for everyday tasks."

Microsoft força o cancelamento de palestra do stallman

Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina -
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Internet Explorer tem maior perda de mercado desde novembro

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Em agosto, navegador da Microsoft perdeu 1,1 ponto porcentual de participação em relação a julho, somando 66,6% do mercado. Firefox ficou com 23,3%.