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21st February 2008, 4:01pm
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#1 | | You look lovely today. SuperMod
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| Microsoft's "Major Announcement" - A Move Towards Open Source
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Microsoft has planned a last-minute press conference to make a "significant announcement".
The event is planned for later this afternoon, but we have been assured that it is nothing to do with the company's attempted takeover of Yahoo.
| http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/169737/m...ouncement.html
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21st February 2008, 4:03pm
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#2 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
Apple and MS are merging.
I suspect that it's something not that exciting - probably some information on the next version of Windows, Vista SP1, the Touch Interface or a new Zune model. | 
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21st February 2008, 4:05pm
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#3 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
They're abandoning Vista, and working towards a sept '09 release of XPsp3
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21st February 2008, 4:06pm
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#4 | | Registered User
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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"news.com reports that Microsoft is withdrawing SP1 for Vista. Nice White, Microsoft product manager blogged 'We've heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287,' wrote White. 'Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update to avoid further customer impact while we investigate possible causes.'"
| http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/21/1526225.shtml
Probably wouldn't be a big enough announcement for that, but I like laughing at Micro$oft. | |
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21st February 2008, 4:09pm
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#5 | | Loa Of Death
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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Originally Posted by Stew  Nice White, Microsoft product manager | Fuck right off.
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21st February 2008, 4:11pm
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#6 | | You look lovely today. SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
The conference is scheduled for 4:30pm GMT.
Someone on the PC Pro forums noted that Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business, is listed to be there so it may be server related. | |
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21st February 2008, 4:11pm
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#7 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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Originally Posted by djtoast They're abandoning Vista, and working towards a sept '09 release of XPsp3 | They are aiming to have Windows 7/Vienna/Blackcomb out by then...
GKR may be spot on BTW. Server 2008 launches next week - they could be just going to do a PR conference about it. | |
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21st February 2008, 4:15pm
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#8 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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Originally Posted by Hammer Right Guard and MS are merging. | fixed
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21st February 2008, 4:16pm
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#9 | | You look lovely today. SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
More info... Quote:
Microsoft has promised to make sweeping changes to the way it designs and shares information about its products.
In a clear acknowledgment of the growing importance of open-source software Microsoft has promised to introduce a number of measures including:- The publication of APIs for "all high-volume" products
- Sharing 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols that were previously available only under a trade secret licence
- Indicating which of its protocols are covered by patents, and promising not to sue open-source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols
- To create new APIs for Word, Excel and PowerPoint to enable developers to plug-in additional document formats, and set these as their default format in Office 2007
"These steps represent an important step and significant change in how we share information about our products and technologies," cliams Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer in a pre-prepared statement.
"For the past 33 years, we have shared a lot of information with hundreds of thousands of partners around the world and helped build the industry, but today's announcement represents a significant expansion toward even greater transparency.
"Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies."
Microsoft is holding a press conference on the announcement shortly. We'll update you with the details.
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21st February 2008, 4:17pm
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#10 | | Larger Than Life
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
Maybe they're going to admit after all these years that the original 'Windows' was blatantly stolen from the Apple OS, and that every innovation they've had over the years has also been something that Apple came up with first... and pay Apple royalites for said idea theft? 
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21st February 2008, 4:32pm
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#11 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
Business speculation: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/...3-23188367.htm Quote: |
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will most likely announce it has agreed to a settlement with the European Union over complaints that it has restricted interoperability between personal computers running its operating system and central computers running non-Microsoft server software, according to Cowen & Co analysts.
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21st February 2008, 5:08pm
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#12 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
Ah, now that makes some sense. I couldn't quite work out why the quote above was worth its own press statement!
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21st February 2008, 5:13pm
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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Originally Posted by Largest of Als Maybe they're going to admit after all these years that the original 'Windows' was blatantly stolen from the Apple OS, and that every innovation they've had over the years has also been something that Apple came up with first... and pay Apple royalites for said idea theft?
Al | And Apple blatently stealing Vista for their latest products! | |
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21st February 2008, 5:14pm
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#14 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement"
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Originally Posted by Sublimation And Apple blatently stealing Vista for their latest products! | ?
Explain. | |
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21st February 2008, 5:18pm
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#15 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Microsoft's "Major Announcement" - A Move Towards Open Source
*splutter*
eh?
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