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Gates and Balmer surprise me. Well I guess they shouldn’t because their reactions are quite predictable. They’re saying that there’s nothing new about Google’s Chrome OS – it’s just another Linux distro. The thing is, when can you look back at Microsoft’s wonderful offerings to the tech world and say ‘wow, that’s something new’? Windows …
For once I did not run out to buy the latest copy of Windows, Vista, as soon as it was available. In the past I’ve rushed out either on or pretty close to release day to pick up the latest incarnation, rush home and install it and wonder at how much the latest and greatest …
Callisto is a simulaneous release of 10 related Eclipse projects that cover pretty much everything you would ever desire to do within your IDE. The list includes the Eclipse platform itself, plus a whole collection of other major plugins, covering: modelling, testing, J2EE development, profiling and visual development (UI). Timothy O’Brien has an article on …
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In a bizarre recent court case against a Kai-Fu Lee, a prior Microsoft executive who left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is quoted to have vowed to ‘kill’ Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In a transcript of a conversation between Balmer and Lucovsky, another previous Microsoft employee who recently left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is …
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