Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?

Dana Blankenhorn notes that OpenOffice.org is “drifting,” which certainly seems to be true, although we’ve pointed out that it is definitely still kicking . Without a doubt, now that Oracle has swallowed up Sun Microsystems and is, by default, the new steward of the world’s most popular open source suite of productivity applications, there are questions to be asked about the future of OpenOffice

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Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Recently, numerous posts have been found on the web heralding the end of Microsoft, in a world where cloud-based initiatives are gaining traction, and Microsoft is seen as not grokking the cloud. One of the more visible of these arguments came from Marc Benioff , Salesforce.com’s outspoken chairman and CEO, who was previously a top executive at Oracle

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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

As we reported yesterday when discussing the new open source Qbo robot, it joins a growing field of increasingly capable robots that run on free, open source platforms. In Qbo’s case, Linux is the underlying platform, and an open source software stack sits on top of it. The fact that both the operating system and software stack on top of it are free means that substantial costs in producing Qbo robots are driven out of the equation

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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

As we reported yesterday when discussing the new open source Qbo robot, it joins a growing field of increasingly capable robots that run on free, open source platforms. In Qbo’s case, Linux is the underlying platform, and an open source software stack sits on top of it

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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

Google Steps Up Its Focus On Businesses

While the new WebM royalty-free video format from Google generated many headlines as the Google I/O conference kicked off in San Francisco yesterday, if you listened to yesterday’s keynote and followed the other news, it was clear that Google is squarely focused on services and products for enterprises.

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