Microsoft-Novell Walk Under the Moonlight
Overnight, Microsoft and Novell made three announcements related to their now two-year-old interoperability agreement, including the soon-to-release beta of the Silverlight for Linux port.
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19.11.2008 My pets on walk
'Moonlight' makes progress on Silverlight for Linux
The open-source Mono project
will show off an early version
of Microsoft's Silverlight
browser plug-in running on
Linux later this week.
Work on the plug-in,
called
Moonlight, was started only in May,
after Microsoft's Mix
conference. Moonlight uses
version 1.1 of Silverlight, a
browser plug-in for displaying
interactive Web applications,
which is due in the fall.
Once completed, Moonlight
will allow Linux users to see
Silverlight content on the
Web, such as videos, and run
rich Internet applications. ..
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20.06.2007Microsoft indemnifies Novell Moonlight users
The Novell-sponsored project porting the Silverlight cross-browser plug to Linux is getting patent protection from Microsoft, indemnifying users from
aggressive patent holders and litigators such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Microsoft will provide
codecs worth $1m to every user downloading
Moonlight from Novell under a special patent covenant, separate to the
companies' broader - and controversial - patent protection and interoperability deal of November 2005.
Miguel de Icaza, Novell
developer platform vice president leading Moonlight, told a panel on open source at Microsoft's Mix 08 conference anyone who downloads a codec from
Novel under the patent covenant is covered. "If you download from a third party, you probably have to speak to Microsoft," he added.
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07.03.2008Moonlight 1.0 is ready for download
Moonlight, the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight, has
hit the
1.0 milestone.
In a February 11 posting to his blog, Novell Developer Platform Vice President and Mono Founder Miguel de
Icaza announced the news...
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12.02.2009Will Microsoft Really Walk?
Microsoft insists that it would acquire Yahoo only on its own terms. Now it said that it will withdraw its offer, after the Internet giant rebuffed a
sweetened $33-a-share bid.
But is Microsoft really going to walk away from the biggest deal of the software giants 33-year
history?
The company has never denied that it would take a hard line in its negotiations with its target. In fact, Microsofts
chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, has regularly talked tough and may now be adopting perhaps the toughest tactic of all.
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04.05.2008Miguel de Icaza and Dragos Manolescu: On Open Source, Mono and Moonlight
Miguel de Icaza is well known for his work on
Mono, the open source implemenatation of .NET. He and his band of merry developers have written a
Silverlight implementation that runs on Mono called
Moonlight. They really are a creative and
talented bunch. I wanted to chat with him about
why he is so adamant about free software and why he chooses to implement OSS versions of our
.NET technologies. Miguel is very smart. He's also very passionate about software.
You've met Dragos Manolescu
before. He's one of
Volta people (the
Live Labs side of the team) and is a computer scientist who has experience in the open source world and an
interesting perspective on the tensions between profit-making business and free software given his years in the consulting business where he mangaged
both proprietary and open source accounts.
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19.02.2008Novell and Microsoft sanction Silverlight work-alike for Linux
In the next stage of what has turned out to be a more successful project than even its creators envisioned, the public beta of Moonlight -- a runtime
library for Linux supporting sites that expect Silverlight -- is expected within days...
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20.11.2008Moonlight 1.0 means more Silverlight apps run smoothly on Linux
Microsoft had always promised interoperability as one of its key goals for Silverlight. The way it's accomplishing this on the Linux side of the
scale is by empowering Miguel de Icaza to take the project and run with it...
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14.02.2009YOOWALK: Walk around the web
YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web as a 3D world where you can:
- Browse the web in 3D with your avatar
- Build a 3D
version of your website
- Have your own room in 3D
- Meet people and hang out with them
Read full story.....
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08.01.2008Walk, don't run: Opera pleads with EU
Opera's Chief Technology Officer, Hakon Wium has told Reuters that he is, "slightly concerned about perhaps a premature settlement in
", following comments by the European Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, that she hopes to have settled the case by the end of
this year. In the interview, Wium indicated that he too is eager for the case to settle, but is not convinced that the recent proposal from Microsoft
to install a ballot screen giving users a choice of several internet browsers will be an effective solution, and could be considered spam by some
users.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 29.09.2009
NASA to release high resolution film of first moon walk
Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40
years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the
discovery or the person who made the announcement was uniformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release
the recently found footage.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 14.07.2009
[Updated] NASA releases high resolution film of moon walk
Updated: The videos are now online and can be viewed here. Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11
moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40 years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left
disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the discovery or the person who made the announcement was uninformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on
Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release the recently found footage.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 16.07.2009
Microsoft seems prepared to walk away from Yahoo deal
In the face of better-than-expected financial results last quarter for Yahoo, Microsoft now seems to be indicating that is ready to move on...
betanews.com - 23.04.2008
Iraq Veteran's Long Journey Back to Microsoft
John West, a Microsoft employee and Army National Guard soldier who was nearly paralyzed by a roadside bomb in 2004, has overcome substantial mental
and physical hurdles to walk again and to return to the job he loves...
microsoft.com/presspass - 11.11.2009
Loss of HP puts end to Wal-Mart's video download store
The retailer decided to silently walk away from its planned video download service after HP ended its participation...
betanews.com - 28.12.2007
After a few days, a mixed verdict on Microsoft Photosynth
It's a new tool from Microsoft that enables photographers to upload photos, but then let other users walk through those photos as though they showed
3D scenes. In some ways, it's close to amazing. Close...
betanews.com - 26.08.2008
RIAA's Case Against Mother Faltering
A U.S. District Court Judge
has denied the RIAA's effort
to walk away quietly from its
case against New York resident
Patricia Santangelo, saying
she had the right to have her
legal status resolved "one
way or the other."..
betanews.com - 22.03.2007
Google Toolbar back in court after partial remand
While it looked like Google could walk away from a potentially damaging infringement case against its browser-based Toolbar, a district court judge
found the reasoning behind a full Google victory may have been flawed...
betanews.com - 27.12.2007
Hollywood Writers Walk Out Over Net Royalties
Hollywood writers went on strike at midnight Monday, at odds with the producers over several issues which included several disagreements on
compensation for so-called "new media" royalties...
betanews.com - 06.11.2007
CEA's latest tech show is a leisurely walk in the park, literally
After making its world debut in New York City last week, Digital Downtown -- a consumer show co-sponsored by the producers of the Las Vegas-based CES
trade show -- looks like a slam-dunk to make an encore in Manhattan next year...
betanews.com - 17.06.2008
Disgruntled IT guy fells blogging site
It's better than having some jerk walk back in with a gun, but it's sure not good: The journalspace.com blog site has shut down after a
"disgruntled" former IT employee used his own data-backup choice to obliterate its entire data store...
betanews.com - 06.01.2009
