Update (11 July): Checkpoint have released a new update for ZoneAlarm that resolves this issue.
If your internet connection stopped working after you installed windows update patches released yesterday, it’s most probably because you are running Zone Alarm with its security level set to high. One of the patches (KB951748) released yesterday doesn’t play very well with zone alarm.
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There have always been stories of how cool google is as a workplace, as well as recent stories of people leaving google. Sergey Solyanik is one of them, who is going back to his previous employer … none other than Microsoft.
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There are plenty of office suites as well as a whole host of other productivity software freely available for GNU/Linux. Most of these provide the average user with all the functionality they need from a word processor, desktop database or spread sheet application. Some will even open documents created in Microsoft Word or Excel with varying degrees of success. There will be some issues when it comes to Read the rest of this article »
There are already plenty of articles and blog posts on the subject of the ex-chief at Microsoft. There’s one over at Read the rest of this article »
Mary Jo Foley has been following Microsoft for over a couple of decades now, and in her book Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era she fills us in on the history and her perspective on where they are heading in the new world of Web 2.0. Read the rest of this article »
Not even Intel, one of their biggest partners! That’s a pretty damning verdict on Vista considering Intel have full source code access to the thing.
So, OLPC is going for Windows because Nicholas Negroponte believes that pushing open source software is scaring people away. Funny how he doesn’t think the poor sales could be because the original idea was mediocre at best and the delivery was simply abysmal. Read the rest of this article »
Well, it would appear that microsoft is realising it made a mistake in choosing version targeted quirks mode as the default for Internet Explorer 8. I guess they didn’t anticipate the uproar from developers, and so decided to do a U-Turn and enable standard compliance mode by default. Read the rest of this article »
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