The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has started a signature campaign to make people aware of the perils of an upcoming feature in PC hardware namely - Secure boot.
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Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Microsoft To Invest $100 Million More In SUSE Linux
Novell gets acquired by Attachemate Group Inc. And SUSE becomes an independent business unit of Attachemate. However, many things remain the same. For instance, the agreement struck by Microsoft and Novel Inc for broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
Microsoft Reaches Out To Linux - Says Happy Birthday!
Microsoft and Linux have been long term adversaries. While the comparison may not be logical - since one is a corporation and another an operating system, it has not stopped people in either camps to lock horns with each other.
However, on the eve of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux via a video that says - "Happy Birthday Linux!".
Watch the video below.
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However, on the eve of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux via a video that says - "Happy Birthday Linux!".
Watch the video below.
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Friday, 11 February 2011
Is Nokia Committing Harakiri By Aligning With Microsoft ?
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Sunday, 16 August 2009
Microsoft Word 2007 table of contents feature seems to be buggy
First time it happened, I couldn't believe. I thought it was I who screwed up that document: I wondered what I could have done to the document styles to get those spurious entries into the table of contents. Then it happened again. And again. It couldn't be me, simply.
I'm working at a client which is committed to produce its documents with Microsoft Office 2007. No way to change that: I had to purchase a license and install it onto my virtualized Windows. When I'm at work, I just use the client's computers. When I'm at home, I run Windows on a Solaris host with Sun xVM VirtualBox to get the job done.
A few days ago, just before sending to print the last revision of a document, I realized that the table of contents was screwed up! Instead of just listing heading up to level 3, it was showing spurious lines here and there. Some of them, were image captions, too. The first I tried to correct the problem was selecting the guilty lines, checking the paragraph options, which incidentally seemed ok, and reapply the original style. It worked, but everytime I opened the document, the table of contents was screwed up again. I tried to understand what happened, given that the spurious lines weren't that spurious (they were always the same), but found nothing. I google a couple of minutes just to confirm I wasn't alone.
I later discovered how I could reproduce the problem: it always happened when I closed the guilty document with the document map feauture on. Switching off the document map solved the problem and the next time I opened it it was just fine.
I recognize that's not a great solution but hey, it works.
I'm working at a client which is committed to produce its documents with Microsoft Office 2007. No way to change that: I had to purchase a license and install it onto my virtualized Windows. When I'm at work, I just use the client's computers. When I'm at home, I run Windows on a Solaris host with Sun xVM VirtualBox to get the job done.
A few days ago, just before sending to print the last revision of a document, I realized that the table of contents was screwed up! Instead of just listing heading up to level 3, it was showing spurious lines here and there. Some of them, were image captions, too. The first I tried to correct the problem was selecting the guilty lines, checking the paragraph options, which incidentally seemed ok, and reapply the original style. It worked, but everytime I opened the document, the table of contents was screwed up again. I tried to understand what happened, given that the spurious lines weren't that spurious (they were always the same), but found nothing. I google a couple of minutes just to confirm I wasn't alone.
I later discovered how I could reproduce the problem: it always happened when I closed the guilty document with the document map feauture on. Switching off the document map solved the problem and the next time I opened it it was just fine.
I recognize that's not a great solution but hey, it works.
Friday, 10 July 2009
We will never kill Mono - Says Microsoft
Microsoft has applied the Microsoft Community Promise to it's C# initiative. What this means is - anyone can develop a C# compiler and use it to create applications in C#.
In layman terms,here is how the Microsoft Community Promise work -Read more »
In layman terms,here is how the Microsoft Community Promise work -Read more »
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