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Linux versus Windows Pricing

Linux Products Linux Price Any $0.00 Windows Upgrade retail products Windows Vista as of 1/2007 Price Windows Vista as of 2/2008 Price Windows 7 as of 10/2009 Price Home Premium $159.99 Home Premium $129.99 Home Premium $119.99 Business $199.99 Business $199.99 Professional $199.99 Ultimate $259.99 Ultimate $219.99 Ultimate $219.99 Windows Full retail products Windows Vista [...]

Posted October 22, 2009 by archdave in Linux, Microsoft

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Take that Netbook XP users!

If you own a netbook with XP installed, it’s time to install Linux. Take that Netbook XP users! “Microsoft late last week said it won’t patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.” “We’re talking about code that is 12 to 15 [...]

Posted September 15, 2009 by archdave in Microsoft

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Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word | Microsoft – CNET News

“A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products [...]

Posted August 12, 2009 by archdave in Microsoft

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Microsoft’s Vision of the Future (Parody)

Vision of the Future Link More Videos at IGN.com

Posted May 20, 2009 by archdave in Hardware, Internet, Microsoft

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Why not Microsoft Software?

  Here’s an article I found entitled: "Why I hate Microsoft" It pretty well states why the author hates Microsoft and you should too.

Posted February 5, 2009 by archdave in Microsoft

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Windows Naming Conventions Clarified

Major Minor Version Version RTM Name 1 .01 Windows 1.01 2 .03 Windows 2.03 .1 Windows 2.1 .11 Windows 2.11 3 .0 Windows 3.0 .1 Windows 3.1 .1 528 Windows NT 3.1 .11 Windows for Workgroups .5 807 Windows NT 3.5 .51 1057 Windows NT 3.51 4 .0 950 Windows 95 .0 Windows 95 OSR2 [...]

Posted January 20, 2009 by archdave in Microsoft

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Bump Top

    Bump Top   I like the direction this is going, but maybe a a more realistic looking space is needed. Like an entire room complete with file cabinets (storage), a desk area where the effects shown in this video can happen, a TV where videos are displayed, a Stereo Rack where audio/music is [...]

Posted October 21, 2008 by archdave in Hardware, Microsoft

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Sockstress vulerability

  Explaining the “New” TCP Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service (DoS) Attack  “The best advice I have right now is don’t allow anonymous connections. Make whitelist so only certain IP addresses can come in,” Lee said, acknowledging the impracticality of that for a Web server or mail server or virtually any other TCP-enabled device. “There’s [...]

Posted October 5, 2008 by archdave in Linux, Microsoft, Programming

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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

  Cloud computing is a trap <snip> The concept of using web-based programs like Google’s Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software. Cloud computing – where IT power is delivered over the internet as you need it, rather than drawn from a desktop computer – has gained currency in [...]

Posted September 30, 2008 by archdave in Linux, Microsoft

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Comparison shopping 2008-09-30

  Dell Inspiron 530N Ubuntu 8.04 with DVD Playback Unit Price –> $1,238.00 <–   Dell Inspiron 530 Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit Unit Price –> $1,459.00 <– The Details  Reference: http://dellazoid.dyndns-server.com:7777/comparison-shopping-2008-09-30.php

Posted September 30, 2008 by archdave in Hardware, Linux, Microsoft

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