Tag: microsoft

  • MS Excel moving with the times

    Over the last few days I have been spending more time in MS Excel than can be considered good for my health! As I tweeted this morning, this has obviously hasn’t been without its frustrations! I don’t often use Excel for more than basic stuff, but this time I am putting together a front end…

  • Microsoft vs Mandriva: The plot thickens

    Jonathan Carter has an update on the goings on regarding the Classmate PCs in Nigeria: The plot has thickened as more details emerges in a PC World article. The funder of 11000 of the 17000 classmate PC’s is insisting that Mandriva remains on the machines, at least for now. This will have a big impact…

  • Mandriva Vs. Windows

    Yet more strange decisions regarding software choices where Microsoft is involved. François Bancilhon writes an open letter to Steve Ballmer regarding the news that Mandriva Linux will be replaced by Windows XP on the 17,000 Classmate PCs for Nigerian schools. We actually closed the deal, we took the order, we qualified the software, we got…

  • Quote of the day

    If Microsoft had used Open Standards from the moment it was founded in 1975, this problem would not exist. Couldn’t have put it better myself! The problem being discussed is, you guessed it, Microsoft’s proprietary file formats. Via Chris Linfoot from the Free Software Foundation Europe, on the beeb

  • So where is Microsoft at with Vista?

    This rather (in my opinion) poor piece of journalism from the BBC quoting Gates on Vista sales figures caught my interest, particularly following the news this week regarding Microsoft’s threat to persue patent royalties from open source initiatives such as Linux and OpenOffice.org. (Link via Bub Sutor). Mr Gates said sales had been quicker than…