decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
I was given a wiped computer with a Windows Vista license | 152 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
5 inch 1920x1080
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 05:42 PM EST
HTC Droid DNA 440dpi should chew Apple's retina
arstechnica

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

BBC caught out by Wayback Machine.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 06:10 PM EST
Is this the next scandle to hit them? link

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

REuters reports...
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 07:09 PM EST
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) was the most actively traded on Nasdaq,
weighing on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite after the surprising
departure of a key executive. The stock fell 3.2 percent to $27.09.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I was given a wiped computer with a Windows Vista license
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 10:45 PM EST
The computer is mine, and the license that went with it is mine. But what's the
best (least expensive/lowest hassle) way to get a *legal* install on the
machine?

(I know, you're going to tell me "Put Linux on it!" And I likely
will. But it's going to be a family computer, and a bunch of stuff that other
people need requires Windows.)

MSS2

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I bought a $20.00 dollar hp 5100 computer
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:11 PM EST
It came with windows xp . It started asking for validation??
Simply too much fuss and bother to learn how to register it.
It has been a very long time since my last Windows computer.
From openSuse to Ubuntu to Mint, and finally to an old friend.
Redhat is now Fedora.
I had to learn the nuances of the developers view.
Done.
Maybe a mandrake variant next time.
For now Fedora is nice.
Why bother with Windows .
Fedora is very fast compared to Xp.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft...
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:18 PM EST

Much earlier this evening, I was reading an article that I wanted to share with you all, that stated bluntly that Sinofsky was fired. Back home, I went looking for it, and found there must now be 100 articles about Sinofsky. They keep multiplying by the hour, like that StarTrek episode where all these copies of the Enterprise keep popping out of hyperspace, each one bearing a different reality. I never found the one I was originally looking for.

In any event, the sacking of Sinofsky apparently is a really big deal. It dragged the entire NASDAQ down. It didn't take long, and few care to admit it, but Windows 8 is already a failure. Those who know, in the know, know a failure when they see one.

The most interesting article I read was this one. It really gets into dimensions I hardly knew existed. It has the back story behind Windows 8's launch disaster, where the tablet crashed in mid stride.

So we have heard that two women will take over the lead, Larson-Green and another who's name I don't recall. It is said they have the skills to integrate disparate divisions (Here auto-spell first interpreted my clumsy keyboarding as "desperate divisions". Perhaps it knows more than I?).

However, this news did nothing to ensure investors, who sold Microsoft shares in record numbers. No wonder. It was Larson-Green who invented the Ribbon. Not satisfied with mucking up the interface for Office, Larson-Green became a trusted Sinofsky lieutenant who led the development of Windows 8's Metro UI.

Here is a famous YouTube video that drives home just how awkward that interface is. Doomed! Please, if you are sensitive to colourful language, DO NOT WATCH THAT VIDEO! Back away now, and visit some other comment. In defense, I don't think one can describe the Metro UI without such language.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Tablet computer added to Queen's Royal Collection. Guess which brand....
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 04:17 AM EST
BBC

Not an idiotPad!

The organisation said it had at one point considered using an Apple iPad, but ultimately opted for Samung's tablet after discussing the project with both firms.
Now what is that going to do for the relative sales figures of Samsung and Apple?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )