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 Ballmer Talks XP Extension, Walking Away from Yahoo!
While in Europe this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered up two tantalizing tidbits about some of the more controversial issues surrounding the company.
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27.4.2008'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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12.02.2009Wearable computing becomes self-generating
Bionic Power, a Canadian start-up company, announced last week that it is commercializing a device that will generate electricity from the natural
motion of walking and use it to power a broad range of portable devices including iPods and wireless phones.
The Biomechanical Energy
Harvester which resembles an orthopedic knee brace, can generate up to five watts of power without creating any noticeable effort for the wearer and
is the focus of a peer-reviewed article in the February 8th edition of Science magazine.
Similar to the way a hybrid car can capture energy
while moving, the biomechanical energy harvester captures energy from the deceleration phase of walking. The company says one minute of walking with
the device could deliver enough power to support 10 minutes worth of "talk time" on a typical mobile phone.
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12.02.2008Miguel 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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19.02.2008Microsoft Still Searching for Yahoo Search Deal
Despite Yahoos rejection of a new search deal offer from Microsoft last weekone that went over like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl with some
shareholdersthe software giant this time is leaving its walking shoes in the closet. A number of sources indicate that despite twice walking away from
previous deals for all of Yahoo and then its search operations, its not yet giving up on the possibility of a deal with Yahoo before its
much-anticipated annual meeting on Aug. 1.
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17.07.2008Novell 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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14.02.2009Virgin/Toshiba to Give Away Free HD DVD Players
One-hundred fifty lucky Star Trek fans will be walking away with a free Toshiba HD DVD player on Tuesday, November 20. There's only one catch ...
this special giveaway is happening in New York City at the two different Virgin Megastores. But if you are lucky enough to live close by and are
willing to stand in line to get a player, you could be walking away with an HD DVD player from Toshiba, valued at $299!
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01.11.2007DNA 'fabricator' constructs walking DNA
The goal of being able to program biochemical reactions as precisely and easily as computers crunch numbers and process words has moved a giant step
closer.
A group at the California Institute of Technology, led by biomolecular engineer
Niles Pierce, has created a DNA-based fabricator.
This is a
system that allows the team to specify a piece of DNA with a desired shape and function, and then execute a molecular program to assemble it in a test
tube. As an example, they used their system to construct a piece of DNA that walks along another strip of.
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17.01.2008Navigate with Tablet PC and
Microsoft Streets & Trips
2005 with GPS Locator
Columnist Tony Northrup
explains how to use Streets
and Trips 2005 with a Tablet
PC to find your destination
when you???re driving or
walking...
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04.01.2006VMware, Citrix rain on Microsoft virtualization with cloud initiatives
Microsoft may be "talking the talk" of cloud computing, but VMware and Citrix are already "walking the walk," with new strategies and
products launched today at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas...
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16.09.2008Jack Thompson Walks Out On Disbarment Hearing
Apparently Jack had heard enough.
The Florida Bar asked for an "enhanced disbarment" in the disciplinary hearing of Jack Thompson, held
earlier this afternoon. The recommendation means Thompson would be disbarred and prohibited from applying to practice law again for ten years,
according to 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida spokesperson Eunice Sigler.
Thompson's hearing apparently ended in the attorney walking
out of the courtroom after saying the judge lacked the authority to hear his case.
The case proceeded without Thompson's presence and
the Florida Bar issued its recommendation for the enhanced disbarment. Judge Dava Tunis' specific recommendations for sanctions will be included
in her official report, to be due to the Florida Supreme Court by September 2nd.
Before walking out of the courtroom, Thompson filed what
he called "Thompson's Formal Objection to June 4 Sanctions hearing. In the documented, 4,500-word objection, Thompson questioned Tunis'
ability to sit on his hearing, calling her incompetent and arrogant and threatening to have her removed from office "in the days and weeks ahead."
He also went on to call the people run The Florida Bar fascists and denied that he was involved some sort of "petty culture war."
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05.06.2008Novell, Microsoft Readying Moonlight
Novell will be delivering a Linux-based version of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-browser, rich Internet application technology within six months.
Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell, said at the XML conference here Dec. 5 that his team wanted to
ensure that Linux would not be a second-class citizen should Silverlight take off.
"If
becomes successful, we
wanted to make sure we weren't left out," de Icaza said.
winbeta.org - 06.12.2007
Futuristic checkpoints know what you do, before you
New security check points in 2020 will look just like something out of the futuristic movie, The Minority Report. The idea of the new checkpoints will
allow high traffic to pass through just as you were walking at a normal pace. No more, waving a wand to get through checkpoints. The new checkpoint
can detect if you have plans to set off a bomb before you even enter the building. News source: Tech Fragments
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neowin.net - 03.01.2009
Microsoft team hacks Silverlight for Chrome
The prospect of Silverlight applications running in Google's Chrome browser is in the air.
A Sliverlight program manager has blogged
about a hack to Microsoft's code that would get their company's media player running inside Google's fledgling browser. The hack to Silverlight
lets Microsoft's player detect Chrome, clearing the way to playing audio and video.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2009
Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V
The guide helps you become familiar with Hyper-V™ by walking you through the steps of installing the Hyper-V role, creating a virtual machine, and
installing an operating system on a virtual machine.
winbeta.org - 19.12.2007
Windows Server Core - CoreConfigurator to the rescue
At first look, developing a GUI utility for configuration of Windows Server Core might sound quite absurd. Alas, the whole point of Server Core is a
cut down version of Server OS without the overhead of GUI and having some GUI tool to help you configure it would be like walking backwards.
winbeta.org - 31.03.2008
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Paul Cooke: While walking the show floor here at RSA, I ran into Steve Riley, whos an incredibly passionate and knowledgeable Security Evangelist (or
officially Senior Technical Evangelist) in Microsofts Trustworthy Computing organization. Hes a well respected and sought out speaker on security
topics. So I thought it would be great to get Steves take on his favorite two security features in Windows 7. Take a look at what Steve has to say
about Windows 7 security!
winbeta.org - 23.04.2009
8 Signs It's Time to Look for a New Job
Short of being handed your walking papers, there are often telltale signs that it's time to look for a new job. You haven't been promoted since the
Clinton administration. The most exciting assignments are routinely handed to your peers or underlings. Your desk keeps moving farther and farther
from where the action is.
But some indicators are less obvious, such as subtle shifts in an IT organization's structure that can
result in career stagnation. A variety of career experts, headhunters, recruiters, CIOs and IT staffers shared their takes on when it's time to move
on.
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