While Ballmer’s CES keynote was as lacking in excitement as expected, there was one interesting announcement from Microsoft for PC owners. Kinect for PC aka Kinect for Windows will be coming out February 1st of this year.  While that may seem to be a boon for PC owners the world over, there is one little catch.  Kinect for PC will require new hardware and not just software.
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It seems like the current chapter in a dispute that is seven years old is coming to an end between Novell and Microsoft. Recently, Bill Gates testified in court after Novell accused Gates of anticompetitive practices to squeeze Novell out of the word processing market.
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Microsoft canceled the Courier tablet, its rival to the iPad, in order not to compromise its core products. And that’s the problem with Microsoft in a nutshell.
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It was 20 10 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play Windows XP was released to the public. And there’s still no sign of it curling up into a ball in the corner and dying. Unfortunately.
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Linux is dead, deceased, demised, expired, gone to meet its maker etc. etc. in the style of Monty Python. Why? because Microsoft said so.
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For those of you not old enough to remember when International Business Machines (IBM) entered the personal computer arena, you just do not know what an impact this computer had.  There were other operating systems that were in use like CP/M, Apple, and Commodore Basic, but Microsoft’s operating systems took over the world.
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