Ballmer afirma que Google é um monopólio que deveria ser controlado

Ballmer afirma que Google é um monopólio que deveria ser controlado

 Claramente se vê como a Microsoft é incompetente em lidar com a concorrência, recorrendo ao "estado babá" para punir empresas que são melhores que ela.

Microsoft solicita ao Google a remoção de 500 mil endereços de ... - Oficina da Net

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Microsoft perde US$ 36 bilhões em seu pior resultado no século

Ações desabam com resultados fracos no 2º tri e prejuízo com Surface

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Microsoft ajudou NSA a quebrar criptografia do Outlook e do Skype

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A Microsoft colaborou intensamente com os serviços de inteligência dos Estados Unidos para permitir que as comunicações dos usuários fossem interceptadas. A empresa inclusive ajudou a NSA (Agência Nacional de Segurança) a quebrar seu próprio sistema de criptografia, segundo documentos citados nesta quarta-feira no jornal inglês "Guardian". Os dados vazados por Edward Snowden ilustram a escala de cooperação entre empresas do Vale do Silício e a inteligência americana nos últimos três anos. Leia mais (11/07/2013 - 16h09)

You're Not Wrong, Microsoft, You're Just An Asshole

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“We have a product for people who aren’t able to get some form of connectivity,” explained Xbox chief Don Mattrick. “It’s called Xbox 360.”

With those snarky words, Microsoft lost E3. That much was clear as soon as Sony’s press conference started. And it’s not because the Xbox One is a bad system. If we ignore Microsoft’s terrible marketing and judge the Xbox One objectively, it’s a fine system – a home entertainment system built for the future that should provide an unparalleled user experience.

But damn it, Microsoft: stop being a jerk.

Don Mattrick, the head of Xbox at Microsoft, explained to GameTrailers that Microsoft built a system that’s future-proof and if you don’t like it, there’s another option: the eight-year-old Xbox 360.

This is Microsoft’s stance and the company doesn’t care if you complain. That message came through loud and clear during the company’s E3 press conference. Take it or leave it. Microsoft doesn’t care. They know they’ll sell millions of boxes and a group of vociferous web trolls won’t change that – or will they?

Microsoft has a reason to be cocky. The Xbox 360 rules the living room, and has set the standard for media streaming devices in the home. There have been hiccups and mistakes along the way, but overall the Xbox 360 is a fantastic system. Microsoft baked in the best of the Xbox 360 into the Xbox One, that much is apparent. However, after years of piracy and the embarrassment of briefly backing the wrong physical media platform, the company is now working on the assumption that you don’t deserve an Xbox One if you’re not connected to the Internet. It’s a fair assumption – the target market already has broadband – but there are still plenty of reasons someone doesn’t want the One to phone home every 24 hours.

The Xbox One has the potential to outsell the PS4. It has the potential of being a better investment for the casual and hardcore gamer alike. It has the potential to seamlessly bring the best of the Internet and TV to the living room.

Look at it this way: The Xbox One is an always-connected device that interfaces with subscription TV. It’s also a portal to a person’s Windows’ ecosystem, bringing the most popular computing platform on Earth to the main screen in the house. It’s a gaming system, a cable guide, a Skype machine, and a media streaming box that you can talk to. And as David Pierce explains on The Verge, the Kinect could usher in a new dimension of gaming. It’s the most pure all-in-one home entertainment system ever built.

But Microsoft went too far.

The Xbox One treats every owner as a potential thief. By nearly requiring a broadband Internet connection to check a game’s DRM, the Xbox One is locked to a living room. Forget about rigging up a system for a long road trip. Forget about taking the system to the family cabin or grandma’s house. Without broadband Internet, the Xbox One is useless.

This always-connected scheme is even scarier when updates are considered. Microsoft will essentially be able to remotely control all these systems and push updates unbeknownst to the owner. But it gets worse: The Xbox One doesn’t work without Kinect, which is always on as well. Xbox One owners cannot trade or easily sell back games. The console is worthy of a mention in a George Orwell novel.

These downsides put Microsoft in a powerful position with game publishers. It’s all about making money and selling systems. It guarantees that games will not be pirated, theoretically putting them at ease and more likely to publish exclusives on the Xbox One. But once you put making money above the user, you start down a slippery slope.

Then there’s the PS4.

As Sony stated loudly and clearly at the PlayStation 4 press conference, the system doesn’t require games check-in online. Games can be traded like baseball cards. The system doesn’t require an Internet connection.

Best yet, indies can self-publish on the PS4.

Sony won E3 by being the anti-Microsoft. The Xbox One has ridiculous DRM and all Sony had to do is state that the PS4 takes a familiar, old-school approach to gaming. It’s just a new PlayStation. Nothing more.

The Xbox One launch is a marketing disaster even though the product itself is solid. Forgive the hyperbole, but every time Microsoft makes a statement, the hole gets deeper. But at the very least Microsoft isn’t hiding anything. There shouldn’t be anymore surprises. Hopefully.

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[Correction: a previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Xbox 360 was the bestselling console of the last generation.]

Why Windows 7 Is My Last Stop on the Windows Train

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BeginLinux: When I became a GNU/Linux fan back in 2004, GNU/Linux and Windows were similar enough to each other that I could be productive on my Windows computer system without having to ever think about the operating system.

Windows 8 Hardware Has Another Problem For Linux

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With a brand new PC certified for Microsoft Windows 8 and shipping the OS, even if you don't plan to use the operating system, it can be difficult to bypass the Windows license agreement before wiping it to install your favorite Linux distribution...

Cracker divulga arquivo com 48 milhões de senhas da XBox Live - IDG Now!

Cracker divulga arquivo com 48 milhões de senhas da XBox Live - IDG Now!

Google Engineer Finds Microsoft Security Flaw, Says Company is Hostile About It

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Tavis Ormandy said Microsoft is difficult to work with regarding these issues

Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again

URL: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-messages-get-end-to-end-encryption-think-again/

If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed. And this can only happen if Microsoft can convert the messages into human-readable form at will.

With the help of independent privacy and security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars used Skype to send four Web links that were created solely for purposes of this article. Two of them were never clicked on, but the other two—one beginning in HTTP link and the other HTTPS—were accessed by a machine at 65.52.100.214, an IP address belonging to Microsoft. For those interested in the technical details, the log line looked like this:

'65.52.100.214 - - [16/May/2013 11:30:10] "HEAD /index.html?test_never_clicked HTTP/1.1" 200 -'

The results—which were similar but not identical to those reported last week by The H Security—prove conclusively that Microsoft not only has ability to peer at the plaintext sent from one Skype user to another, but that the company regularly flexes that monitoring muscle.

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Falha da atualização do Windows 7 (KB2823324) só afeta o Brasil, diz a Microsoft

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De ontem para hoje (11), muitos usuários brasileiros do Windows 7 32 bits se depararam com um grave problema após a atualização do sistema operacional para a patch KB2823324: o sistema operacional simplesmente parou de inicializar. Mas a má notícia não é essa. A pior parte é que o problema só afetou o Brasil. Após [...]

Microsoft’s new Kinect patent goes Big Brother, will spy on you for the MPAA

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Atualização automática da MS causa tela azul no Windows 7 x64

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Erro veio junto com atualização liberada para o sistema, parte de patches não relacionados aos de segurança normalmente liberados na quarta terça-feira de cada mês

Five reasons why Windows 8 has failed

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 ZDnet: The numbers are in and they don't lie.

Surface Pro Teardown Reveals It’s Virtually Unrepairable

URL: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/surface-pro-teardown/

The Surface Pro is one of the least repairable devices iFixit has seen, scoring even lower than the Apple iPad.

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Não apenas Linux: Windows pode corromper notebooks Samsung também

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A Canonical aparentemente informou a Samsung da questão, mas ainda não havia previsão para uma atualização que a corrigiria

Ao emprestar dinheiro para a Dell, Microsoft quer evitar namoro com Linux

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Sua participação no negócio também pode ser uma tentativa de influenciar projetos de hardware no mundo pós-PC dos dispositivos habilitados com toque

Quatro razões pelas quais você não precisa do novo Microsoft Office

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Além de uma nova interface que necessita um novo aprendizado, é possível encontrar versões semelhantes - e grátis - no mercado

No Microsoft, open source software really is cheaper, insists Munich

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ZDNet: Which is cheaper - using open source or Microsoft's software? The software giant and the city of Munich have come up with very different answers.

Alta taxa de devolução do Surface RT pode ser problema para WinRT

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O tablet não está vendendo como água, dizem analistas, mas o que mais preocupa são as devoluções. Motivo provável é dificuldade em adaptação com novo OS

Microsoft says IE 6, 7, and 8 vulnerable to remote code execution

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On Saturday, Microsoft published a security advisory warning users of Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 that they could be vulnerable to remote code execution hacks. The company said that users of IE 9 and 10 were not susceptible to similar attacks and recommended that anyone using the older browsers upgrade. Still, customers who still run Windows XP can not upgrade to IE 9 and 10 without upgrading their OS.

Microsoft's confirmation comes after reports from several security groups that the attack sprung from the Council of Foreign Relations website, creating a "watering hole attack" that left people who visited the site through older versions of the browser open to further attack.

The company has released a workaround for the problem, and said that it is working on a patch for IE 6, 7, and 8, but did not give a time period as to when those patches would be released. The Council of Foreign Relations told The Washington Free Beacon that it was investigating the situation and working to prevent security breaches like this down the line.

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2013: Installing Linux on Windows 8 PC is still a pain

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ZDNet: It's still very hard to install Linux on Windows 8 PCs, and it's next to impossible to install Linux on Windows RT devices like the Microsoft Surface RT.