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Ed Burnett over at ZDNet.com has spent some time to look through the Android source in question, and it turns out there’s a few unit test classes that can easily be replaced, and a zip file containing some hardware specific device drivers which could also be easily replaced.
At face value this doesn’t seem very substantial for Oracle’s lawsuit. Maybe there’s not as much behind this as we were led to believe.
Did Microsoft announce their Apple TV killer at CES this year? Rumor was that they were supposed to but can’t remember hearing anything about it.
Wouldn’t this be the 3rd attempt for Microsoft to get in on the set top box game? They originally had WebTV, which when it launched in the late 90’s was ahead of the game until Microsoft bought them out and seemed to take the company nowhere. Then they had the Ultimate TV box launched in 2000, which at the time looked like a strong competitor against TiVo, but only lasted 3 years and again went no-where.
So, third time’s a charm Microsoft – what you got for us this time?
Is it just me or in anyone else noticing that Microsoft just can’t seem to get themselves out of 1st gear? They keep launching product after product, but nothings new or revolutionary, nothing takes the world by storm and then eventually the product fizzles out and dies.
Come on Ballmer, get your act together!
Interesting statistic:
Study: Windows 98 traffic bests Windows Phone 7
… there’s still PC’s out there running Windows ’98? Wow.
Wow, where to begin. I just spent a couple of weeks messing around with Joomla, installing templates and installing/configuring extensions and I got to the point where I had things setup as I wanted. It was a bit of effort to get there, but it was still an incremental improvement from my own home-grown blog software that I’d been using since around 2002.
Someone at work mentioned to have a look at WordPress. Wow. I am stunned. It’s beautiful. It does everything I need, straight out of the box. Easy to install and configure, everything works. Has all the features I was looking for:
Simple needs, but stuff I wanted to use without too much messing around. I like it. Sorry Joomla, I think you’re a couple of years behind where you need to be.